Thursday's Children

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.

Country:

United Kingdom

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

21 minutes

Year:

1954

Director:

Lindsay Anderson

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Company:

World Wide Pictures,

Morse Films

Cast:

Narrator (voice)

Crew:

Music

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Director

Writer

Director