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Love Leads the Way: A True Story: Directed by Delbert Mann. With Timothy Bottoms, Eva Marie Saint, Arthur Hill, Glynnis O'Connor. A recently blinded man becomes one of the first American users of a seeing eye dog and must fight to remove the legal barriers impeding its use.
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- Drama, Family, History
- Delbert Mann
- 1984-10-07
Aug 29, 2024 · This man is Morris Frank, the co-founder and first Vice President of The Seeing Eye. By his side is Buddy, a German Shepherd, recognizable by his assistance animal harness. Buddy was the first guide dog for the blind in the United States.
On February 9, 1928, Eustis called Frank and asked him if he would come to her dog-training school in Switzerland, called Fortunate Fields, to be paired with a guide dog. Frank replied, "Mrs. Eustis, to get my independence back, I'd go to hell."
Presenter: Michael Hingson Grade Level: All Ages Description: On September 11, 2001, a man who is blind escaped the World Trade Center by walking down 78 flights of stairs with his guide...
- 89 min
- 3.6K
- Inclusion Collaborative
"Guide Dog" was released in 2006 and was the first sequel to Bill Plympton's Oscar-nominated animated short, "Guard Dog". In this film Bill's famous Dog cha...
- 6 min
- 3.7K
- Plymptoons
Jan 11, 2017 · In 1929, at age 21, Morris co-founded, with Dorothy Eustis, the first guide-dog school in the United States. It was called “The Seeing Eye,” from Proverbs 20:12: “The hearing ear and the seeing eye – the Lord hath made them both.”
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With a touching performance by Timothy Bottoms as Morris Frank, the first blind person who was was given the task to prove that the program would work, and of course the German Shepard dog who played "Buddy" the first seeing-eye dog.
