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Helen Keller & Anne Sullivan (RARE 1930 Newsreel Footage)

grrlscientist | August 26, 2009

tags: Helen Keller, Anne Sullivan, newsreel footage, human behavior, learning, streaming video Helen Keller, the American author, political activist and lecturer, and her instructor and lifelong companion, Anne Sullivan, appear in this Vitaphone newsreel from 1930. In this rare footage, Sullivan demonstrates how Helen Keller learned to talk. The final line of this footage, "I Am Not DUMB now!" is touching.

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