My Left Foot 4

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M Y L E F T F O O T
The World of the Film
Key Moments
I
Opening scene: The Fund-
raising Benefit 
(See Appendix II for
detailed analysis)
Watch the film from the moment at which the
film’s title appears on screen up until the shot 
of Eileen Cole smiling at the benefit audience.
Duration: 3 mins 25 secs. approx.
II
Stealing Coal
Watch the film from the moment when Christy
watches the coal being delivered to the point
where the money is found up the chimney.
Duration: 3mins. 53 secs. approx. 
III
Christy’s exhibition and
celebration dinner
Watch the film from the beginning of the art
exhibition to the dinner afterwards. 
Duration: 6
mins 10 secs approx.

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APPENDIX I
SEQUENCES FOR STUDY
1 
The Present
• Cars come to collect Christy and his family at home and bring
them to Lord Castlewelland’s house. 
• Christy is introduced to Mary who brings him into the library.
2
First flashback: Christy as a child
• Opens in hospital ward. Paddy Brown gets news of Christy’s birth
at the hospital and goes to the pub.
• Christy at home - the family leaves for the day but he stays with
his mother. She carries him upstairs and subsequently collapses. 
• Christy alerts the neighbours.
• A neighbour reads the alphabet to Christy. 
• The new baby is in the kitchen. The other children are seen doing
homework. Christy is seen writing on the ground with chalk held
by his foot. 
• Christy plays on the street with the other children. They hide a
‘girlie’ magazine in his cart which his mother finds. 
• The priest talks to Christy about hell.
• Christy and his mother visit a church. On the way home they get
caught up in Halloween celebrations. 
• Christy writes ‘Mother’ on the floor and is taken by his father to
the pub in celebration.