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00:02:08When I watch them playing, they seem like ordinary children.
00:02:15By all rights, they are ordinary children, but circumstances have deformed them.
00:02:23Some of them have serious delinquency records, and nearly all of them are sick enough to need my help as a psychiatrist.
00:02:32The root of most of their troubles is that nobody has ever wanted them.
00:02:38Here, we try to show them they're wanted.
00:02:45This is the story of one of these 80 boys, Donald Peters, 10 years old.
00:02:52How he lost his way, and how, at last, he began to find it.
00:02:59We learned his story very slowly, by bits and pieces.
00:03:04But we'll try to tell it as it happened to Donald.
00:03:08Secretly, in his loneliness.
00:03:10In a lost child's bewilderment.
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00:03:33In all these months, Donald has made no friends.
00:03:36We have never seen him smile.
00:03:39He has hardly spoken.
00:03:42He is one of the quiet ones.
00:03:49In all these months, he has never had a letter.
00:03:56But he is learning to endure disappointment.
00:04:01He used to hide himself to suffer.
00:04:03Now, he wants me to know he is unhappy.
00:04:10This boy wants all my attention.
00:04:14At his stage, they're painfully jealous.
00:04:18If Donald's ever lucky enough to open up, he'll have to go through that too.
00:04:22If Donald's ever lucky enough to open up, he'll have to go through that too.
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00:05:30Mrs. Johnson has very good reasons for not keeping order.
00:05:36Her boys are very backward in their reading, as in all their study.
00:05:41Children are much more deeply ashamed of being stupid than most of us realize.
00:05:48They are stupefied by shame.
00:05:53They've failed so often, they're afraid even to try anymore.
00:06:00Before they can ever begin to trust their intelligence, they have to be sure they're liked.
00:06:05No matter how stupid they seem, or what they do.
00:06:12Before they know they're liked, they can't like you.
00:06:18Until they like you, they can't even begin to learn.
00:06:28Donald has never learned to read a word.
00:06:30But here, seeing and hearing simple words one at a time,
00:06:34with nobody hurrying him, or scolding or cheering at him,
00:06:40Donald will learn to read.
00:06:43But not for a while yet.
00:06:46For just such a word as baby arouses a deep turmoil of feelings,
00:06:52and behind the feelings rise memories which still hold him in terrible doubt.
00:06:57Behind the feelings rise memories which still hold him in terrible hunger and hatred.
00:07:11The vanished father whose face he can't even recall.
00:07:15The mother who has no room for him in her life.
00:07:22Grandma at his home with her.
00:07:25A home he hates so much that even at night he seldom comes back.
00:07:33These are the memories Donald will never forget.
00:07:36As early on that morning, Grandma is out looking for him again.
00:07:42Wherever he may be hiding himself this time.
00:07:54Donald's mother.
00:07:57His mother.
00:08:00His father.
00:08:02His mother.
00:08:05His father.
00:08:08His mother.
00:08:11His mother.
00:08:14His mother.
00:08:17His mother.
00:08:20His mother.
00:08:23His mother.
00:08:26His mother.
00:08:29His mother.
00:08:33And she is wishing to goodness she'd never in her life have to smack him or scold him
00:08:40or go claim him back at children's court or ever look on his mean, mopey, sassy little face again.
00:09:32Here they begin.
00:09:49Same old buzzard.
00:09:52Somebody else hauling him home by the nape of the neck.
00:09:56Get up them steps, you little good-for-nothing, you no-count.
00:10:01Get up them staircases.
00:10:04Sleeping out the Lord knows where, same as your no-count mother used to do.
00:10:09Keeping me up all night, talking and worrying till all hours.
00:10:14Piling on the cold streets to dig you out of your hiding place.
00:10:19Shame my face in front of everybody.
00:10:22I heard you open your doors down there. Go on and listen.
00:10:27The same old helpless fury.
00:10:31Spray over your features.
00:10:34The people in the complaint.
00:10:36Sneaking and nibbling and stealing my rent money.
00:10:39All the time looking at me cold as a clam.
00:10:42Bad-blooded, like I always said.
00:10:46And I know who you've cut it from.
00:10:59The same old hopeless confusion.
00:11:03Misunderstanding.
00:11:05Rage and pain.
00:11:07Fear and hatred.
00:11:38And the sick quiet that follows violence.
00:11:54And Judy without love.
00:12:01And the sick quiet that follows violence.
00:12:07And the sick quiet that follows violence.
00:12:10And the sick quiet that follows violence.
00:12:34And peacemaking fails.
00:12:41A heavy burden for an old woman.
00:12:46A heavy burden for a little boy.
00:12:51That's the way it keeps on going.
00:13:10This is one of the things that goes on in my mind all the time.
00:13:14And it's the same old thing.
00:13:17And it's the same old thing.
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00:13:26And it's the same old thing.
00:13:29And it's the same old thing.
00:13:32And it's the same old thing.
00:13:35And it's the same old thing.
00:13:38This is one of the things that counts most heavily against Donald.
00:13:43When he does go to school, he can't seem to learn or even pay attention.
00:13:49He's way behind the children he sits with.
00:13:53The teachers can't spare time for him.
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00:18:13Of course the streets of a city can be a wonderful school.
00:18:18Freedom is wonderful too.
00:18:21But if you're as lonely as Donald is, all you learn is more loneliness.
00:18:27And Donald's kind of freedom is solitary confinement.
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00:18:37Everybody else has some place to go.
00:18:41Some definite thing to do.
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00:18:52And after a while, you even want to go home.
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00:19:16But home is no refuge.
00:19:19Home is a place of unutterable boredom, sadness, wild daydreams, vengefulness, rebellion.
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00:22:34Children who buy their friends will do almost anything to feel they belong.
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00:23:47But Donald doesn't know yet how to keep this kind of friend.
00:23:55He's failed again.
00:23:58The baby in him is desperate to be comforted.
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00:24:31Mama.
00:24:36Mama.
00:24:41Mama.
00:24:42Mama.
00:24:45Mama.
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00:25:13Well, come on in.
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00:25:23It smells like home,
00:25:27but it's no home for you.
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00:25:32Are you coming back in here or not?
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00:25:39What'd you say it's for?
00:25:41Shhh.
00:25:42Not so loud.
00:25:45Don't shush me.
00:25:47You can't even talk in your own place.
00:25:53What'd you say it's for, then?
00:25:56I didn't mean it like you took it.
00:25:58What'd you say it's for, then?
00:26:03I didn't say it like you took it for.
00:26:07Like I took it for.
00:26:09All I know is you said it.
00:26:12Say a thing like that,
00:26:14how do you think I'd take it?
00:26:17If this isn't flawless,
00:26:19is that it?
00:26:22You want that?
00:26:25Because if that's what you're looking for,
00:26:27you better look someplace else.
00:26:42Didn't nobody ask you to swallow nothing?
00:26:44Don't give me that stuff.
00:26:48Wasn't trying to give you no stuff.
00:26:53What you call it?
00:26:58Don't call it nothing.
00:27:06You tell me
00:27:08every time I give you something,
00:27:11you tell me
00:27:13every time I say it.
00:27:15Now what's the matter?
00:27:17Leave the baby alone.
00:27:19You just have to go for it.
00:27:35Let him mind it.
00:27:37You and me will go out.
00:27:41You and me.
00:28:00Doggone it, woman, where's my necktie?
00:28:11Get me a rug.
00:28:13Wash them, big mouth.
00:28:23Come on, it'll be coming.
00:28:31You stay here with Ollie.
00:28:33You stay here with Ollie.
00:29:03Have you got something
00:29:05to give the kid?
00:29:33Come on.
00:30:03Come on.
00:30:33Oh!
00:30:39Shut up!
00:31:03Shut up!
00:31:33Shut up!
00:32:03So Donald came to Wiltwick.
00:32:05These were the things
00:32:07which made him what he was.
00:32:09Monday,
00:32:11Sunday,
00:32:13Sunday,
00:32:15Sunday,
00:32:17Sunday,
00:32:19Sunday,
00:32:21Sunday,
00:32:23Sunday,
00:32:25Sunday,
00:32:27Sunday,
00:32:29Sunday,
00:32:32Months after he saw the last of his people,
00:32:34he was still paralyzed
00:32:36by his memories.
00:32:38There wasn't much we could do for him
00:32:40until he made some move
00:32:42himself.
00:32:46Once every year at Wiltwick,
00:32:48a pretty thick run of fish.
00:32:50If you're good at it,
00:32:52you can just knock them on the head.
00:33:02Oh,
00:33:04oh,
00:33:06oh,
00:33:08oh,
00:33:10oh,
00:33:12oh,
00:33:14oh,
00:33:16oh,
00:33:20oh,
00:33:22oh,
00:33:24oh,
00:33:26oh,
00:33:28oh,
00:33:30oh,
00:33:32oh,
00:33:34oh,
00:33:44oh,
00:33:48Irregular Holiday
00:33:50For days now,
00:33:52very shyly,
00:33:54Donald had been watching
00:33:56a new counselor named Clarence.
00:33:58watching and very shyly, for children of Donald's kind have a desperate terror of rejection.
00:34:08But now at last, against all that terror, in front of everybody, Donald took the greatest
00:34:14risk of his life and made the first friend of his life.
00:34:30It was a great day for Donald and for us too. One of our social workers came over and congratulated
00:34:37Clarence. He wondered what for. But Miss Roberts knew what Donald had been through. And after
00:34:47she told Clarence a little about the child, Clarence realized he had been partnered to
00:34:53a small but very important miracle.
00:35:01From then on, Donald was as touchy as a boil. Children always are when their affections
00:35:07begin to be stirred up. He was touchiest of all toward his new friend.
00:35:21If Clarence handed him a shirt with a hole in it, Donald was sure it was a calculated
00:35:26personal betrayal. All the meaner in front of the other boy.
00:35:34Clarence wondered what the dickens was wrong with him. It was all to the good, though.
00:35:42Now that Donald was beginning to open up, almost anything could happen.
00:35:51One day in crafts class, Donald was making a little bowl. He wanted to make it look like
00:35:58a seashell. He couldn't say why. He just wanted it to be a seashell.
00:36:16Donald seemed to be doing fine. Suddenly, the hands that were working in the damp clay
00:36:22of the unborn shell drew him into a deep quicksand.
00:36:52Donald. Donald. What's the trouble? Okay. Try it again.
00:37:22The bottom of memory has opened and engulfed him. All afternoon in great misery and turmoil,
00:37:37he must hunt among those memories alone.
00:38:07Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald
00:38:37Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald.
00:40:07Donald's kind of hunting would exhaust and frighten him, but he would not give up.
00:40:37He would fight the stronger and wiser people in need.
00:41:07In the past, when he was in trouble, Donald had nobody to turn to.
00:41:12Now, for the first time, he feels the life-giving warmth and gratitude that comes of being comforted.
00:41:22And for the first time, with Clarence's help, he begins to take his place among the other boys.
00:41:38Even his failure with the shell is the beginning of a victory,
00:41:43for with it, he has begun to make something tangible with his hands,
00:41:48out of the depths of his past unhappiness.
00:41:52Altogether, it looks as if he were really beginning to take hold of his life,
00:41:57and as if he were beginning to take hold of his soul.
00:42:03Altogether, it looks as if he were really beginning to take hold of his life,
00:42:08and during these next weeks, as a matter of fact, everything is going to go much better for him.
00:42:14Donald will do some butterfly chasing of his own.
00:42:18He gets to be a pretty good basketball forward for his side.
00:42:23Much to his astonishment, he'll begin to read.
00:42:27In his appointments with me, he becomes almost articulate.
00:42:32Most important of all for Donald,
00:42:35he goes back to the little seashell and keeps at it until he finishes it.
00:42:40That gives him his first real sense of accomplishment.
00:42:58You speak my language, don't you?
00:43:00By now, he seems to have become very much a part of the life here.
00:43:28He hardly seems like the same boy anymore.
00:43:38But he isn't well yet, by any means.
00:43:50So much can happen blindly by mischance.
00:43:54And on this morning, a great deal happened to Donald.
00:44:16When he saw that Miss Roberts was driving into town,
00:44:19Donald suddenly realized whom he had made the bowl for.
00:44:22Come on, give it to him.
00:44:24Come on, give it to him.
00:44:26Come on, give it to him.
00:44:33Come on, give it to him.
00:44:35Come on, give it to him.
00:44:37He had made it for his mother.
00:44:40And now it was on its way.
00:44:44And now it was on its way.
00:44:49But it was only on its way to my office.
00:44:55Hey, what's going on here? You can't fight like that.
00:44:58If you want to fight, we'll do it right.
00:45:00Okay, let's count it out. Let's go.
00:45:03I'll get you.
00:45:11When Miss Roberts told me about the bowl,
00:45:14I decided it was time to tell Donald the facts.
00:45:19Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
00:45:33One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
00:45:39One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
00:45:42Okay, that's it. Let's break it up. That's it.
00:45:55Donald.
00:46:03Donald's mother had disappeared.
00:46:06Not even his grandmother knew where she was.
00:46:10Donald.
00:46:28What he made of this knowledge and what came of it
00:46:32brought about the most important turning point in Donald's life with us.
00:46:39He was a man of great courage,
00:46:42a man of great wisdom,
00:46:45a man of great courage,
00:46:48a man of great wisdom,
00:46:51a man of great courage,
00:46:54a man of great wisdom,
00:46:57a man of great wisdom,
00:47:00a man of great courage,
00:47:03a man of great wisdom,
00:47:06a man of great courage.
00:47:31What Donald is trying to do takes a lot of courage,
00:47:35a strong will towards reality and life,
00:47:39to suffer the uprooting of the dearest thing you have known
00:47:43and try to transplant your affections,
00:47:47to go ahead rather than retreat,
00:47:51to put your need and your love once again in another's trust
00:47:56when all of your life, and again so recently, you have been betrayed.
00:48:06Donald has come a long way with us,
00:48:09thanks largely to his friendship with Clarence, a long way.
00:48:35A Mirror is No Longer a Focus for Misery and Self-Hatred
00:48:38A Mirror is No Longer a Focus for Misery and Self-Hatred
00:49:00A mirror is no longer a focus for misery and self-hatred,
00:49:04but more like a window on a happy present and a hopeful future,
00:49:09an image of a happy child and of a man he hopes to be like.
00:49:21But he hasn't come far enough.
00:49:24A starving man can't share food no matter how much there is,
00:49:29and a child so desperate for affection can't bear to share it.
00:49:59A Mirror is No Longer a Focus for Misery and Self-Hatred
00:50:23Hey! Let's stop him!
00:50:29I'll fix you!
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00:51:07All right now, all right, get off him!
00:51:09What are you doing to him anyway?
00:51:11What we do, he care about them!
00:51:17Now what do you do that for? And what did you do?
00:51:20Now you go over and fix up that lock and be quick about it.
00:51:23You are the guys clearing here.
00:51:24We're going to fix our bed!
00:51:26Don't worry about that, let me handle it.
00:51:28Now you got to move on.
00:51:38Now darling, you fix back those beds.
00:51:45What do you want to make a mess of things for, huh?
00:51:49What got into you?
00:51:52Is something wrong?
00:51:56Something happened?
00:52:01All right now, let's straighten out these beds, huh?
00:52:26A Mirror is No Longer a Focus for Misery and Self-Hatred
00:52:31It was a question whether Donald needed more to talk out whatever was disturbing him,
00:52:36or live it out first.
00:52:39The director and I agreed,
00:52:42we'd better give him a chance to work it out his own way.
00:52:56After you.
00:52:59I can make it a good holiday.
00:53:14After you.
00:53:26After you.
00:53:42But chances have to be taken, because after all,
00:53:45there are things you can only find out for yourself,
00:53:49and by yourself.
00:53:56After you.
00:54:26After you.
00:54:56After you.
00:55:26After you.
00:55:42There are things nobody can ever find out for you,
00:55:45or ever tell you, or ever show you.
00:55:49They're too deep inside you.
00:55:57And as the day grew darker and colder,
00:56:01Donald found them out.
00:56:20He saw his mother and all that he wished of her and could never hope for.
00:56:25He saw his mother and all that he wished of her and could never hope for.
00:56:55After you.
00:57:25After you.
00:57:56He began to see the home he'd broken his heart over,
00:57:59for what it really was.
00:58:01And seeing that, accepting that,
00:58:04his own spirit began to come of age.
00:58:15And he turned back toward the school.
00:58:25After you.
00:58:55After you.
00:59:25After you.
00:59:28After you.
00:59:31After you.
00:59:53Looking back, knowing as much about it now as Donald knew then,
00:59:58we can date a good deal from his runaway.
01:00:04When he gave back the lighter, he didn't only begin to put an end to his stealing.
01:00:09He gave back his extravagant emotional claims on Clarence,
01:00:13his extreme, hypersensitive jealousy.
01:00:21From now on, he will begin to make friends his own age as well.
01:00:29With his experience on the track, the baby in Donald began to die.
01:00:36The child was born.
01:00:41He will still suffer in remembrance of his people,
01:00:44but he is less liable than before to enshrine an unreality.
01:00:50He can better accept his motherlessness,
01:00:53his homelessness,
01:00:55this temporary home.
01:00:58There is no happy ending to Donald's story.
01:01:27The happiest thing we can say is that the worst of his loneliness,
01:01:31a loneliness that paralyzes and kills, has ended.
01:01:35We can help him now.
01:01:38Now that he's begun to make peace with his past,
01:01:41he begins to feel at home in the present.
01:01:44We can help him to equip himself against the future.
01:01:49That's the most we can hope to do here at Wilkwick
01:01:52for any of the boys who lie sleeping here.
01:01:55To clear away some of the great harm they suffered
01:01:58in the difficult world they came from.
01:02:01Make them a little better able to take care of themselves
01:02:04in the difficult world they must return to.
01:02:09A little better able to live usefully and generously in that world.
01:02:14A little better able to live usefully and generously in that world.
01:02:19A little better able to care for the children they will have
01:02:23than their parents were to care for them.
01:02:26Lest the generations of those named in childhood,
01:02:30each making the next in its own image,
01:02:33create upon the darkness, like mirrors locked face to face,
01:02:37an infinite corridor of despair.
01:02:49To keep open a place of healing, courage, and hope
01:02:53for as many as we can afford to care for
01:02:56among the thousands of those children who lie sleeping tonight
01:03:00in impoverished little rooms
01:03:03and in poor fugitive derelict holes
01:03:06in the rotten depths of the city.
01:03:18Whom poverty, bewilderment,
01:03:21anger, pride,
01:03:24fear, lovelessness
01:03:27may drive into sickness and into crying.
01:03:32And who in the world which disfigures them
01:03:36cannot be cared for
01:03:39and are not one.