One Per Cent of Us - So Many Children

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Established in 1992, the South West Film & Television Archive collection spans from 1893 to the present day containing more than 250,000 items. Formed from a variety of depositors, including broadcast news and programmes material from the Westward and TSW archive. In 2018 the archive collection transferred to The Box in Plymouth.

One Per Cent of Us - So Many Children


Made at Downham Special School in Plymouth in Devon, the camera helps us to visually engage with the children at school and focuses on Ian, Alison, Lorraine and twins Edward and Leslie as their parents and teachers narrate. Mongol was a term used to describe people with Down syndrome or trisomy 21, a theory discounted by physician John Down ten years after he discovered the disorder in 1862. Mongolia lobbied the United Nations to eradicate the word now regarded as offensive.


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