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Thursday's Children is a British film of genre Documentary directed by Lindsay Anderson released in USA on 18 april 1955 with Richard Burton
Thursday's Children (1954)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 18 april 1955
Length 21minutes
Directed by Lindsay Anderson
OriginUnited-kingdom
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about education, Films about children, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Films about disabilities, Sign-language films
Rating72%
Thursday's Children is a 1954 British short documentary film directed by Lindsay Anderson 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. It won an Academy Award in 1955 for Documentary Short Subject.
Synopsis
Tourné dans l'école pour enfants sourds de Margate dans le Kent en Angleterre, le film s'intéresse aux visages et aux gestes de petits garçons et petites filles. L'école apprend la lecture sur les lèvres plutôt que la langue des signes, et le film note que seulement un enfant sur trois finit par acquérir un véritable langage parlé.Actors
Richard Burton
(Narrator (voice))
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