| Description | I Caption: "The Disability Movement, a very necessary precursor to DAM."
Demonstration protesting against Telethon which "disables people".
II Caption: "Funders and other influences." Railway. View from wheelchair moving along road and into house. VO reading Aims and Objectives of the Arts Council, and statement on funding situation from Lord Gowrie. DAM (Disability Arts Magazine) awarded £30,000. Roland Humphrey with pile of arts and disability pamphlets. Woman’s VO complaining about giving revenue funding to arts and disability projects, worrying about the quality of the work, and saying the Council is an arts body, not part of the Welfare State. First edition of Disability Arts Magazine (Spring 1991). Humphrey with other issues.
III Caption: "People: a telephone conference call by members of the DAM board."
Chair, Veronica Wilself, starts the call. Differently abled people give their (mostly critical) points of view and get explanations and other information from the editor. |
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