ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: Double Bill
PROGRAMME 1:
AMHARC EIREANN:
TEARNAMH AS POLIO
This short film produced by Gael Linn shows fundraising and therapeutic work in the early days of the Central Remedial Clinic, then in Goatstown, Co. Dublin. Directed by Colm O Laoghaire.
FILM INFO: 4 minutes, 1957, Black and White

OUR NEIGHBOUR’S CHILDREN (1960)
This fundraising film for Baldoyle Children’s Hospital shows children with physical disabilities at play and at work with nurses and the Sisters of Charity nuns who run the hospital. Directed by Colm O Laoghaire.
FILM INFO: 10 minutes, 1960, Black and White

PROGRAMME 2:CLUBS ARE TRUMPS (1959)
Made at the request of Augustinian Fr. James McGrath to raise funds for Our Lady of Good Counsel Boys Club in Thomas Street, this film shows sports and workshops for the boys and the glittering distractions of city life from which they are protected. Directed by Stuart Hetherington and Brendan Redmond.
FILM INFO: 22 minutes, 1959, Colour