Ontario School for the Deaf (1925)

This film is a heritage item from Library and Archives Canada and is only available in English. Film showing the facilities and activities of the Ontario School for the Deaf in Belleville, Ontario. The main building and residences, under the direction of school superintendent C. B. Coughlin, are shown along with shots of the staff of teachers and tutors. Classroom activities are shown, from the most junior to senior classes. Among classes shown are: lip reading, sense training, writing and pronunciation, music and rhythm exercises, mathematics, history and literature, visible speech, dress-making, shoe-making, printing shop, wood working and domestic science. Students are shown in other situations as well: in the dining room, at chapel, at bed-time, at a birthday party, performing a fire drill, on the pyramid squad, and playing many sports and games. Shots of the expansive grounds and farm surrounding the school are shown. The film ends with the children assembled for a flag-raising ceremony. The final intertitle reads: "Every deaf child in the Province should have the educational advantages provided by this splendid school." Source: Library and Archives Canada. Graphic Consultants fonds, 1972-0105, IDC 279821.