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Topic: Lawsuit over "Brokeback Mountain" screening at school
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Cameron Glendinning
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 845
From: West Ryde, Sydney, NSW Australia
Registered: Dec 2005
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posted 05-16-2007 08:28 PM
quote: Jim Bedford
but it certainly isn't much worse than the Teletubbies and Barney those kids were probably brought up on.
Interesting Point, when it comes to kids shows, closeted homosexual references have been around forever. In Noddy, Big Ears use to share the same bed. Now thats a same sex couple! I also remember a character called Sea Man Sam and Master Baitman in another kids show. Let alone Bill and Ben the flowerpot men and their obsession with WEED!
Play school theme
Theres a bear in there
People with games, and stories to tell.
open wide, come inside!
Its Playschool!
When I was at school, when the 16mm projector broke down one wet sports day. I was sent to the local video shop to rent 4 movies to be played in the different video zones, ie science block, library, theatrette ect.
Metropolis, Roxanne, a Disney film and Rambo were my choice!
Umm Rambo was the most popular choice!!! And the parental complaints went all the way to Federal Parliament ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
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Leo Enticknap
Film God
Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 05-17-2007 02:02 AM
quote: Brad Miller
That reminds me of those great driver's education films back in the day when they believed they could get people's attention by making them graphic.
Yes! There was a whole cycle of them in the late '60s and '70s, and I have 16mm prints of a few. My favourite is a 1970s masterpiece entitled Candles for Katie. Scenario: Katie is at school while her parents are preparing a surprise birthday party. However, they're rowing like mad and on the verge of divorce. Dad drowns his sorrows in half a bottle of whisky, then drives drunk to the school to pick his daughter up. Katie runs out into the road just as Daddy is coming round the corner, but Daddy is pissed, doesn't stop in time and runs over his own daughter. Blood and guts all over the road (shown explicitly - nothing left to the imagination), screaming kids outside the school gate ... fade to black; the end. The teachers' guide that came with the film stated that it was suitable for showing to 8-12 year olds as a 'don't run in the road' film, or to adults for the anti-drink driving message.
Another gem is I'm Train Trained, about straying onto railway lines. Schools could also order 'I'm Train Trained' badges to give out to pupils after they'd seen the film. Kid #1 wanders onto a railway track as a dare, and just manages to get clear before a train comes. Kid #2 climbs over a fence and onto the line to retrieve his ball, and is electrocuted by the live rail. Kid #3 goes on to try and help his electrocuted friend, and is mown down by an express train. You then see a severed arm being removed from the line by an ambulance worker, and over footage of the double funeral the voiceover tells you to never, ever trespass on railway lines.
Another popular schools film genre was the 'don't go with strangers' film. The script was pretty much the same each time. The paedophile always had a beard, wore a horrific tie, drove a flashy car (this is 1970s, so think of Ford Cortinas out of The Professionals) and invited the victim to visit his home to see his kittens. He'd hang around outside the school gate and explain to his potential target that her parents had sent him to pick him up. Then there's some sort of subplot to explain how the parents found out what had happened and got the police involved, and the last scene usually involved screams coming from inside the flat just before the police bust the door down.
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