Thursday's Children

Thursday's Children (1954)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 1954-05-01
  • User Rating: 6.6/10 from 10 ratings
  • Runtime: 0h 21min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: World Wide Pictures
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
  • Directors: Lindsay Anderson, Guy Brenton.
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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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  • Richard Burton

    as Narrator (voice)
Sound Geoffrey Wright Music
Writing Guy Brenton Writer
Directing Lindsay Anderson Director
Writing Lindsay Anderson Writer
Directing Guy Brenton Director
Camera Walter Lassally Director of Photography