The Quiet one

Duration: 67

Genre: Documentary

Year Published: 1948

Creator: texture

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Copyright: Registered 1May78 · PA 9-073 (Jul-Dec 1978) Copyright holder: Film Documents Production company: Distributed by Texture Films; [s.l.]: released by Mayer-Burstyn

Description: A docu-drama account of a 10-year-old emotionally disturbed Black boy who is unwanted, misunderstood, and inwardly tortured. Living in Harlem, the child withdraws within himself and drifts into delinquency. In rehabilitation at the Wiltwyck School, the emotional damage has been so severe that he becomes the quiet one., An award-winning documentary drama. Donald Peters is a mentally disturbed boy, an only child, and the victim of a disrupted home in Harlem. At the age of ten he is sent to Wiltwyck School at Esopus, NY, a correction school for delinquent boys which was founded by the Protestant Episcopal Church. With the aid of the psychiatrist and counselors he receives the training and emotional comfort which help him rehabilitate his personality.

Complete Record: A docu-drama account of a 10-year-old emotionally disturbed Black boy who is unwanted, misunderstood, and inwardly tortured. Living in Harlem, the child withdraws within himself and drifts into delinquency. In rehabilitation at the Wiltwyck School, the emotional damage has been so severe that he becomes the quiet one. , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.