Title | : | Thursday's Children |
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Release | : | 1954 |
Rating | : | 7.4 |
Language | : | English |
Runtime | : | 0 |
Genre | : | Documentary |
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. —Les Adams
Guy Brenton, Lindsay Anderson