Kids for sale

Duration: 22

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1979

Creator: Mass Media Ministries

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Documents the commercial exploitation of children by television broadcasters and advertisers. Excerpts from children's programming and commercials provide a sampling of what is wrong with children's television: slick, deceptive commercials for sugary foods and expensive toys, derogatory racial, ethnic, age and sex stereotyping, and warped representations of male/female relationships. Interviews with schoolchildren reveal television's disturbing effects. Parents discuss their frustrations and successes in coping with their children's viewing habits. , Kids for Sale Distributed by Mass Media Ministries; 2116 N Charles St; Baltimore; MD; 21218 ; Tel. (301)727-3270DC: MMM Produced by Action For Children's TV; 46 Austin St; Newtonville; MA; 02160PC: ACTV Year published 1979 Grade Level: A Distributed on media: 1 film reel (22 min.), optical sound, 16 mm. Color?Color Length: 22 MIN Description: Looks at the state of children's TV with a sampling of commercials and programs as well as parent's and children's comments. Includes strategies for guiding family TV viewing. Topics: Advertising-; Television-Broadcasting

Complete Record: Documents the commercial exploitation of children by television broadcasters and advertisers. Excerpts from children's programming and commercials provide a sampling of what is wrong with children's television: slick, deceptive commercials for sugary foods and expensive toys, derogatory racial, ethnic, age and sex stereotyping, and warped representations of male/female relationships. Interviews with schoolchildren reveal television's disturbing effects. Parents discuss their frustrations and successes in coping with their children's viewing habits. , , Kids for Sale Distributed by Mass Media Ministries; 2116 N Charles St; Baltimore; MD; 21218 ; Tel. (301)727-3270DC: MMM Produced by Action For Children's TV; 46 Austin St; Newtonville; MA; 02160PC: ACTV Year published 1979 Grade Level: A Distributed on media: 1 film reel (22 min.), optical sound, 16 mm. Color?Color Length: 22 MIN Description: Looks at the state of children's TV with a sampling of commercials and programs as well as parent's and children's comments. Includes strategies for guiding family TV viewing. Topics: Advertising-; Television-BroadcastingNOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.