Modern Pilgrims Progress (SPEC)
16mm film negative Black & White Sound 1937 17:10
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Summary: Film from Howard House, Bedford, which focuses on the lives and education of children with learning problems.
Title number: 10690
LSA ID: LSA/13600
Description: Howard House; Bedford. Captions allied to John Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress. Close-ups of children interspersed with captions which would now be seen as derogatory to the children. Special educational material in use for slow learners; music; percussion band; girls in the library choosing books; tuck shop; sandpit; series of shots showing difference in height between children of the same age; physical exercises; garden slide; boys making a bed; playing with toys in the dormitory; end sequence showing how these slow learners can progress to a Barnardo Sea Training School.
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