Sequel To N.Z. Film

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32253, 23 March 1970, Page 16

Sequel To N.Z. Film

The New Zealand film, “A Deaf Child In The Family,” awarded the only gold medal out of 89 world-wide entries to a recent British Medical Association competition, will have a sequel. This was decided in Christchurch at the week-end, at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Teaching Films to Help Deaf Children Society, Inc., which raised more than $5OOO to help pay for the first film. The second film will illustrate the problems faced by the deaf adolescent as he adjusts to adult society and to work. Three gold award certificates were presented recently to those associated with “A Deaf Child In The Family.” One went to the society, one to the National Film Unit which filmed it, and one to the society’s medical adviser, Mr M. Sleeman Robertson, of Christchurch. The film was directed and scripted by Mr Frank Chilton, senior director of the National Film Unit. The society’s election of officers resulted as follows: President, Mr M. B. Parsons; secretary, Mrs M. R. Herrick; committee, Mrs F. Chilton, and Messrs A. B. Allen; Chilton, A. H. McCormack, H. Pickering, and Robertson.