(soft music playing)

- [Narrator 1] The images
that we have of Helen Keller

are a media creation.

- [Audio Description]
Grade-school aged
Helen reads a book.

- [Narrator 2] The story, the
overcoming, the saintly figure

- [AD] She touches a harp
while a crowd watches.

- [Narrator 3] It paints
a very limited picture.

- [AD] At crowded
Capitol politicians

unveil statue of Helen Keller.
Keller attends a protest.

- [Narrator 4] She
was such a trailblazer

for so many of these civil
rights and social movements.

- [AD] Helen Keller speaks

at a microphone,
smiling and confident.

As an ambassador she visits
Nagasaki's atomic bomb Memorial.

She sits in the
seat of a biplane.

She traces the line of
a Martha Graham dancer.

- [Narrator 3] A fully
complex, quirky person

of very firm
convictions, not perfect.

- [AD] Helen Keller feels

the face of Henry
Ford as both smile.

She cradles a flower bouquet.

- [Narrator 1] This
is the representative

of what it means to be human.