Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?
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Original title | Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1977 |
length | 72 minutes |
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Director | John Korty |
script | Janet Peoples (not mentioned) |
production |
Warren Lockhart Mark L. Rosen Dan McCann John Korty |
music | Ed Bogas |
camera | Jon Else |
cut | David Webb Peoples |
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Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? is an American documentary from 1977 .
action
The documentary begins with Mr. and Mrs. DeBolt's journey from California to New York City , where they adopt their 19th child, the blind and physically disabled girl JR, and how they then integrate her into their family and what difficulties JR faced Has to overcome everyday life. The climbing stairs are used by JR as a connecting stylistic device to show how the DeBolts began to gradually adopt disabled children in order to enable them to have a normal family life.
During her first marriage to Ted Atwood, with whom Dorothy DeBolt had five children, she adopted two children from Korea . After her husband died, she adopted two more children, this time from Vietnam , regardless of whether they came from South or North Vietnam. She then married Bob DeBolt, who already had a biological daughter from her first marriage, and adopted 10 other children with him from Korea, Vietnam, the USA and Mexico.
background
- an award at the Oscars in 1978 as Best Documentary