ABSTRACT The English folk rhyme ‘Monday’s Child’ predicts a fortune for children based on the day of the week on which they were born. Line 4 reads ‘Thursday’s Child has far to go.’ This article explores whether Lindsay Anderson and Guy Brenton edited the documentary film Thursday’s Children (1954) to convince the viewer that deaf children educated in the oral method at the residential Royal School for the Deaf, Margate, Kent, England, would go far. Alternatively, perhaps the filmmakers were presenting the educational experiences on offer with a film-title tinged with doubt. The film’s voice-over, scripted by Anderson, states: ‘without words there can be no thoughts, only feelings.’ We are also told that only one in three deaf children will achieve ‘speech’. This tension is presented in the documentary with a curious mixture of visual and verbal contradictions. The author argues that the seeds of Anderson’s other filmmaking can be found in this early documentary. His ultimate interest was not a ‘tender’ portrayal of children submitting to a particular pedagogy, but instead to show the power and camaraderie of children who, however, they might be taught, should not be made to feel dis-empowered.

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错误教育和聋子：林赛·安德森和纪录片《星期四的孩子》（1954）

摘要 英国民谣“星期一的孩子”根据孩子出生的那一天预测他们的财富。第 4 行写着“星期四的孩子还有很长的路要走”。本文探讨了 Lindsay Anderson 和 Guy Brenton 是否编辑了纪录片《星期四的孩子》（1954 年）以说服观众相信在英国肯特郡马盖特皇家聋人学校接受口头教育的聋童会走得更远。或者，也许电影制作人正在用带有疑问的电影名称来展示所提供的教育经验。由安德森编剧的电影画外音说：“没有文字就没有思想，只有感觉。” 我们还被告知，只有三分之一的聋童会“说话”。这种张力在纪录片中以视觉和语言矛盾的奇怪混合呈现。作者认为，可以在这部早期的纪录片中找到安德森其他电影制作的种子。他的最终兴趣不是对儿童服从特定教学法的“温柔”描绘，而是展示儿童的力量和友情，然而，他们可能被教导，不应该让他们感到被剥夺了权力。