GB
1959
29mins
Dir: Wolf Rilla
Starring: Donald Houston and Maureen Pryor
A dramatised story of a child with cerebral palsy who moves with her family to a house and school better suited to her needs
This family drama was the result of a collaboration between Ian Dawson-Shepherd, a founding member of the National Spastics Society (now known as Scope) and Margaret R. Johns, an actor turned documentary and travelogue producer. It is dated and rather condescending in its tone today, yet at the time it was a very worthy production. It features a glimpse of Walnut Tree Viaduct in Taffs Well, South Wales, originally built for the Barry Railway in 1901 to carry their line across a narrow gorge through which the A470 road, the River Taff, the Taff Vale Railway, and the Cardiff Railway all passed. It was deconstructed in 1969 almost immediately after closure.
