Thursday's Children
Thursday's Children is a 1954 British short documentary film directed by Guy Brenton and Lindsay Anderson[1] about The Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, Kent, UK. The film is nearly silent, apart from music and narration. It focuses on the faces and gestures of the little boys and girls. As a residential school teaching lip reading, rather than a sign language, it features methods and goals not now used, and notes that only one child in three will achieve true speech. Filmmakers Lindsay Anderson and Guy Brenton were unable to gain distribution for the film until it won an Oscar in 1955 for Documentary Short Subject.[2][3][4] The Academy Film Archive preserved Thursday's Children in 2005.[5]
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| Narrated by | Richard Burton |
| Music by | Geoffrey Wright |
| Cinematography | Walter Lassally |
Production company | World Wide Pictures Morse Films |
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Running time | 21 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Cast
- Richard Burton as Narrator
See also
- Richard Burton filmography
References
- "Thursday's Children (1954)". BFI.
- "BFI Screenonline: Brenton, Guy (1927-94) Biography". www.screenonline.org.uk.
- "New York Times: Thursday's Children". NY Times. Retrieved 26 May 2008.
- "The 27th Academy Awards (1955) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Retrieved 30 May 2019.
- "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.
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