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Skin: Learning Resource by Film Education


Introduction

Family Shot outside court

Of course – there is also the fact that Sandra appears to be black and the adults, her parents, are white.
What is your explanation of that difference? 

Is the child from an earlier marriage?

Is Sandra adopted perhaps? 

Perfectly reasonable explanations but for the fact that the images show family scenes that would have seemed totally outlandish and socially unaccepted in the South Africa of the early 1960s. 

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