Thursday's Children
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Thursday's Children |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 21 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Lindsay Anderson Guy Brenton |
| script | Guy Brenton Lindsay Anderson |
| production |
World Wide Pictures , Morse Films |
| music | Geoffrey Wright |
| camera | Walter Lassally |
| occupation | |
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Thursday's Children is a British documentary - short film from the year 1954. The directing of Lindsay Anderson and Guy Brenton was in 1955 with the Oscar in the category " Best Short Documentary Award".
action
The film is about the children in Margate , Kent to the Royal School for the Deaf (dt .: Royal School for the Deaf go). The children between four and seven years of age are accompanied by the camera during the class. The pupils playfully learn to produce sounds they have never heard before and to combine them with letters. Using a balloon that the teacher holds to their mouth and speaks against it while the children put their hands on it, they learn that language causes vibrations.
Another exercise for the kids is blowing small toy cars into garages and blowing over a number of animal figures. Using his breathing and a straw, one of the children makes a toy figurine swing on a swing. All of these exercises should serve to introduce the children to language. The joy is great when one of the children succeeds in forming a word, even if it is not immediately pronounced understandably and correctly.
Production, background
The documentary produced by World Wide Pictures and Morse Films sometimes completely dispenses with the sound, so that the viewer, like the children shown in the film, has to read from the lips and get an impression of what it is like to be deaf. In 1988 Thursday's Children was accepted into the program of the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam .
While filming Thursday's Children , Anderson was working on the documentary O, Dreamland about the amusement park there, also shot in Margate .
criticism
Walter Goodman wrote in the New York Times : "Lindsay Anderson's 1953 documentary only lasts 21 minutes, each of which creates a lump in the throat or makes the heart jump."
Awards
Thursday's Children won an Oscar for “ Best Documentary Short Film ” in 1955 . Anderson and Brenton also won the British Academy Film Award for "Best Documentary".
Web links
- Thursday's Children in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Walter Goodman: Thursday's Children. Three from Lindsay Anderson , New York Times , October 7, 1987
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thursday's Children ( Memento of the original from May 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the International Documentary Film Festival, accessed on February 3, 2012.
- ^ Lindsay Anderson Collection (pdf), University of Stirling Library, accessed February 3, 2012.
- ^ Walter Goodman: Thursday's Children. Three from Lindsay Anderson , New York Times review , October 7, 1987, accessed February 3, 2012.
