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.

• DirectorLindsay Anderson
• Release1 May 1954
• GenreDocumentary
• Duration0h 21m
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  6.7
  12 reviews
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  World Wide Pictures, Morse Films