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.
- Year: 1954
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: World Wide Pictures, Morse Films
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- Director: Guy Brenton, Lindsay Anderson
- Cast: Richard Burton