Word: childrene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Children, like cats, will watch anything that moves, and the fact has not been lost on makers of children's films. Hustling for small change, they dress shoddy actors in seedy costumes, bloat fairy tales to 1½-hour proportions and ship the results to Saturday matinees. In the throng, however, there are a few legitimate producers whose gold is all but lost in the straw. The best of them is Robert Radnitz, 44, whose movies-A Dog of Flanders, Island of the Blue Dolphins, And Now Miguel-are the sleepers of the children's film industry...
...producer of children's films, Joseph Strick, 45, is less skilled than Radnitz. His prior movies have been fare that kids could scarcely see, much less comprehend: Ulysses, The Balcony, The Savage Eye. In Ring of Bright Water, he reverses himself and locks out the adults with a tale that makes The Three Bears seem Byzantine...
...becoming a captive circus performer. Given his freedom, the animal returns the favor by wrecking Merrill's city flat and showing him that happiness is a cottage in Scotland. Merrill blithely quits his insurance job, hies to the highlands and begins a life of happy isolation. Even in children's films, a man cannot drift for long before a pair of pretty eyes begin blinking like a lighthouse. Here they belong to Virginia Mc-Kenna-Mrs. Travers in real life and his co-star in Born Free...
...cent of its high school graduates even went to college. Using the jargon of the early sixties, it said that schools in "culturally-deprived" areas needed special help, since the "culturally-deprived" homes in Cleveland's ghettoes were "not able to do their vital part" in educating children...
...public support for the general PACE idea rose, Calkins rolled out some other specific plans in 1964 and 1965. At a panel discussion, for example, he suggested merging Cleveland's neighborhood high schools into a city-wide system in order to expose white children to "people of other races, religions, and economic levels...