Johnny Be Good... a silent docudrama about curing disabled children, set in 1920s London

Follow young slum-dweller Johnny's journey from sad, outcast "cripple" to a cured and mischievous lad, as a beneficent stranger helps his distraught mother to access hospital treatment. This fascinating silent film gives us insight into a pre-NHS health system, where hospital charity appeals were vital to develop services. Disability is portrayed as needing a cure, without which a grim life lies ahead.

CHARITY APPEAL. A fund-raising appeal, told as a drama, for the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital before the opening of the Stanmore Hospital in 1922.