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.

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

21 min

Actor:

Richard Burton

Quality:

HD

Director:

Lindsay Anderson, Guy Brenton

Release:

1954

Country:

United Kingdom

IMDb:

6.7