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Description: This is a simple, honest, tremendously moving saga, brought to the screen with the help of such notables as Katherine Cornell, Martha Graham and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Helen Keller, playing her own role, surpassed even the greatest actress, as she evoked the personal drama of her unique and dramatic story of courage, faith, perseverance and hope. Perhaps nothing better illustrates the power and eloquence of this remarkable film than one passage, haltingly spoken by Miss Keller in her partially developed voice: "It is not blindness or deafness that brings me my darkest hours. It is the acute disappointment of not being able to speak normally. Longingly I feel how much more good I could have done if I had acquired normal speech. But out of this dark experience I understand more fully all human strivings, thwarted ambitions and the infinite capacity of hope." Produced by Nancy Hamilton. Narrated by Katherine Cornell. Academy Award - Best Feature Documentary Golden Reel Award 45 minutes, B/W direct link to purchase video: http://www.phoenixlearninggroup.com/Products/VideoDetail.aspx?id=2d82d281-233b-49e1-b13a-a916b4717f98&cat=&sub=
Category: Film
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- Author: spunky xetron
- shes an author and has a book named "Light in my darkness"
she knows that she is handicapped
- Author: pookymuffin101
- she had a sickness when she was 2 and it left her deaf, and blind. KindredspiritPA was lying to you.
- Author: bech1223
- 14 should be blind, deaf and dum!
- Author: jaytalex10
- Thats incorrect... Your confusing 3 different teaching methods... She first made the connection of language when Ms. Sullivan was running her hand under a stream of water and finger spelled the word water into Helen's other hand using the manual alphabet (each letter is represented by a different handshape).
She later learned to write these letters and then learned to speak verbally by putting her hand on her teacher's mouth and copying what she felt.
- Author: fisteberg
- Ann sullivan communicated with helen keller through manual alphabet,a sign language she traced in her palms.You can read it in "the story of my life,the book she wrote as a young girl.Before graduating cum laude from radcliffe college.
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