Thursday's Children

Thursday's Children

Directed by	Guy Brenton Lindsay Anderson
Written by	Guy Brenton Lindsay Anderson
Narrated by	Richard Burton
Cinematography	Walter Lassally
Music by	Geoffrey Wright
Production companies	World Wide Pictures Morse Films
Release date	May 1954 (1954-05) (UK)
Running time	21 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

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, a residential school then teaching lip reading rather than sign language. Apart from music and narration, the film is nearly silent and focuses on the faces and gestures of the little boys and girls. 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]

Cast

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Richard Burton as Narrator

References

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^ "Thursday's Children (1954)". BFI. Archived from the original on 21 April 2016.
^ "BFI Screenonline: Brenton, Guy (1927-94) Biography". www.screenonline.org.uk.
^ "New York Times: Thursday's Children". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. 2011. Archived from the original on 20 May 2011. 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.

External links

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Thursday's Children at IMDb
Thursday's Children at the British Film Institute^{[better source needed]}

v t e Films directed by Lindsay Anderson
O Dreamland (1953) Thursday's Children (1954) Every Day Except Christmas (1957) This Sporting Life (1963) The White Bus (1967) If.... (1968) O Lucky Man! (1973) In Celebration (1975) Look Back in Anger (1980) Britannia Hospital (1982) Wham! in China: Foreign Skies (1986) The Whales of August (1987) Glory! Glory! (1989)

v t e Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film
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