Word: childrene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take flight. Caractacus spins a tale of adventure, with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as the hero. The car soars and sails, evil Baron Bomburst (Gert Frobe) covets it and unleashes comic villains to kidnap its owner. Instead, they get Grandpa. Off he goes to Vulgaria, a horrid land where children are forbidden. Underneath the baron's castle, the banished boys and girls have hidden for years, waiting for salvation...
...film's sporadic success is due to Director Ken Hughes's fantasy scenes, which make up in imagination what they lack in technical facility. Next to Tiny Tim's hallowed remark, the holiday season's most overworked phrase is "What can we take the children...
...Does TV cause riots? Are children growing insensitive to brutality because of crime programs? So went the questions put last week by the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, headed by Milton S. Eisenhower. The commission, in effect, wondered whether TV is the mirror or the molder of society. After three days of hearings, it wound up with a full range of conflicting answers...
Though witnesses were sympathetic with newscasters, they were scornful of other programming's effect on children. Robert MacNeil, a former NBC newsman now with the BBC, called TV the fabricator of a "decivilizing" mythological America, where violence is "sanctified" as a respected solution to human problems. "The adventure serials, the police shows, and the westerns all say that violence is fun, violence is manly, violence gets you girls," he said. "The networks may be cutting down on the number of blanks fired, but the cherishing of guns goes...
Other witnesses were equally harsh. Freelance Reporter Ben H. Bagdikian agreed that children are learning that "the only difference in tactics and ethics between a cop and a crook is who has the badge." He concluded that "it is as though we delivered our children to someone who took them away for four or five hours every day in their formative years to watch police interrogations, gangsters beating enemies, spies performing fatal brain surgery, and demonstrations in how to kill and maim...