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Thursday's Children

Thursday's Children Online

  • Genres: Documentary
  • Release Date: 01/05/1954
  • Duration : 21 minutes
  • Director: Lindsay Anderson, Guy Brenton
  • Production: World Wide Pictures, Morse Films
  • Country: United Kingdom
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Overview:

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.

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