Helen Keller

Duration: 15

Genre: Educational

Creator: National Geographic

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Traces the development of Helen Keller from the loneliness of a deaf and blind child to the awareness of the world that she gained through her teacher, Anne Sullivan. Uses live action and historical photographs., Archival photographs and live action re-creations are interwoven to present a biographical portrait of Helen Keller. At nineteen months, Helen was felled by a mysterious disease that left her blind and deaf. The child's sightless and silent existence as an unruly phantom living in a no-world was drastically altered when Anne Sullivan, a teacher from the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston arrived to take charge of her education. Battling initially to instill discipline in the child, Anne proceeded to teach Helen words and the rudiments of communication. Mastering these skills, Helen went on to college and became a renowned author, Note d especially for her autobiography, The Story of my life. She and Anne Sullivan, who was steadily losing her sight, took to the lecture circuit achieving worldwide acclaim. When she died, the Bishop of Boston called Anne Sullivan one of the great teachers of all time.

Complete Record: Traces the development of Helen Keller from the loneliness of a deaf and blind child to the awareness of the world that she gained through her teacher, Anne Sullivan. Uses live action and historical photographs., Archival photographs and live action re-creations are interwoven to present a biographical portrait of Helen Keller. At nineteen months, Helen was felled by a mysterious disease that left her blind and deaf. The child's sightless and silent existence as an unruly phantom living in a no-world was drastically altered when Anne Sullivan, a teacher from the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston arrived to take charge of her education. Battling initially to instill discipline in the child, Anne proceeded to teach Helen words and the rudiments of communication. Mastering these skills, Helen went on to college and became a renowned author, Note d especially for her autobiography, The Story of my life. She and Anne Sullivan, who was steadily losing her sight, took to the lecture circuit achieving worldwide acclaim. When she died, the Bishop of Boston called Anne Sullivan one of the great teachers of all time. , Traces the development of Helen Keller from the loneliness of a deaf and blind child to the awareness of the world that she gained through her teacher, Anne Sullivan. Uses live action and historical photographs.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.