Thursday's Children
1954 · 21 min · Documentary
Won the Academy Award for the Best Documentary Short of 1954. The subject deals with the children at The Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, Kent. The hearing-handicapped children are shown painstakingly learning what words are through exercises and games, practicing lip-reading and finally speech. Richard Burton's calm and sometimes-poetic narration adds to the heartwarming cheerfulness and courage of the children. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with British Film Institute in 2005.
- Directors
- Lindsay Anderson, Guy Brenton
- Writers
- Guy Brenton, Lindsay Anderson
- Released
- May 1, 1954
- Language
- English
Cast
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