Funke, Joanne & Jeanette

Summary

A film about a trio of 16-year-old deaf girls, who attend Summerfield School in Great Malvern, who for a challenge spent six weeks living in a cottage in the grounds of their boarding school.

Year:

1985

Duration:

0:25:00

Film type:

Colour / Sound

Genre:

Documentary

Company:

Central Television

Master format:

1 Inch Type C

Description

We see the girls (Jeanette Page, Olufunke Olatokun and Joanne Allcoat) shopping, cooking a meal in their flat and eating a meal in a Chinese restaurant. We also see speech lessons taking place at Summerfield School where the children are encouraged to speak rather than use sign language; a sports event and an outing in which a group of children paint outdoors.


Credits

Thanks to: Jeanette Page; Olufunke Olatokun; Joanne Allcoat and everyone at Summerfield School
Research: Sharon Goode
Production Assistant: Jenny Homer
Camera: Julian White
Sound: Dennis Fitch; Aad Wirtz
Film Editor: Ian Hutchison
Executive Producer: Brian Lewis
Director: Graham Moore


Notes

PN 6543/85.