Name: Thursday's Children
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1954-05-01
Duration: 21 min
Cast: Richard Burton

Thursday's Children (1954)

English 21m

About Thursday's Children Movie

Directed by Lindsay Anderson, Thursday's Children (1954) is an English-language Documentary Movie. 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.

Movie Details

Release Date01 May 1954

LanguageEnglish

Runtime21m

StatusReleased

DirectorLindsay Anderson

MusicGeoffrey Wright

GenreDocumentary

On Screen