Silent World, Muffled World

Gregory Peck narrates this film that historically relates the difficulties of speech, education, and normal living for the deafened. Animation explains the physiology of the ear, the mechanics of the hearing process, and the hearing impairment caused by certain disorders of the outer, middle, and inner ear.

Intended to further the understanding of deafness and hearing loss; to stress the need for medical research; to encourage individuals with hearing loss or other ear disorders to participate by bequeathing their inner ear structures to the Temporal Bone Program for Ear Research.