Thursday's Children

Thursday's Children (1954)

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.

Date of release
1954-05-01
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (14)
Runtime
21m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Lindsay Anderson, Guy Brenton

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 1. Including: Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)

Thursday's Children is a 1954 British short documentary film directed by Guy Brenton and Lindsay Anderson about The Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, Kent, UK, a residential school then teaching lip reading rather than sign language.

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