Thursday's Children

May 1, 1954

0h 21m

★ 6.7

Overview

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.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

World Wide Pictures

Morse Films

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Narrator (voice)

Richard Burton

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7.5

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6.4

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6.2

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5.0

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7.3

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0.0

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6.0

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5.5

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0.0

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0.0

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6.0

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0.0

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Dec 31, 1974

Documentary portrait of the legendary jazz bandleader. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2000.

6.4

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5.0

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6.4

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5.0

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Thursday's Children

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