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Darkness in the Sun
Date | 1961 | ID | 9232 |
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This colour dramatised documentary-style film highlights how communities in Nigeria view blindness and the burden the condition has on rural families. The film also explores the work undertaken by British born Ronald Babonau and his wife, via a training centre for local blind men, teaching rural crafts and agricultural techniques enabling the men to gain employment.

The Unseen Valley
Date | 1962 | ID | 9231 |
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This black and white documentary film highlights how communities view blindness in Luapula (now Zambia) and the traditional methods adopted to 'cure' the condition, spread by sand and the Red Measles virus. This film also explores the learning techniques adopted by blind adults and children, to enable them to go about their daily lives.

Europe Pictorial
Date | 1973; November 1984 | ID | 9246 |
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This colour documentary film shows the work of eye-camps set up in the rural Indian community of Bhimavaram, run by the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind and several Indian and British Rotary Clubs. The film has scenes of surgical procedures and treatments being administered to patients. This film is an edited version of AID_9243 - A gift of Sight, with new colour titles.

New Horizons
Date | [ca. 1980s] | ID | 9244 |
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This colour documentary film showcases several projects by the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind and the National Association for the Blind in India, showing the rehabilitation and training of several blind men. The men are seen undertaking routine tasks that includes working on a farm, in a shop and operating light industrial machinery at a factory.

A Child’s Horizon
Date | 1984 | ID | 9245 |
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This colour documentary style narrated film, highlights the impact blindness has on children around the world and the main causes. The film features blind children in Bangladesh, New York, India and Malawi. Children take part in music, crafts and rehabilitation exercises. The film has opening and closing titles and includes footage of children being examined and treated by physicians, with some scenes of cataract removal surgery.

A View to the Future in Bangladesh
Date | 1987 | ID | 9247 |
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This colour documentary showcases the charitable work by the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind in various regions of Bangladesh. The programme includes an introduction by Abu Siddique, Programme Director of the RCSB in Bangladesh. The film has a voiceover with opening and closing titles. Some scenes of treatment and surgery are shown.
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