Helen Keller in Her Story

Helen Kellers' words set to video with real footage and photographs
"Helen Keller In Her Story" is a documentary which was produced and directed by Nancy Hamilton and was originally released in 1955. It is in black and white and was distributed by Hearst in 1992 in VHS format.

This documentary takes the story of Helen Keller as written in her autobiography, and is narrated by actress Katherine Cornell. It won an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary in 1955.

The narration is done over original footage of Helen Keller and some older material are still shots of photographs. While hearing about the life of Helen Keller it is fascinating to see her in motion in the video images.

We see Helen Keller traveling all over the world. We see how she can communicate using sign language. We see Keller reading Braille including reading her Braille Bible which she says she reads each morning and each evening. We see her typing using a regular typewriter as well as a Braille typewriter. Later we see her trying a device which...

Plenty of rare footage
Excellent video for all the reasons listed in Amazon's official review and-- contains the only known recording of Anne Sullivan's voice!

Every thing you wanted to know about Helen keller
Very informative, used it as an intro to the book for a high school ESL class. Lengthy but the kids loved watching how she learned to speak. It is black and white and it is narrated in proper English.

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