It’s difficult, outside the US, to understand just what its television landscape looked like in the Sixties and before. There were a handful of programmes aimed at children, such as Mr Rogers’ Neighborhood, but they weren’t relatable to kids from all backgrounds, and almost everything else available was first and foremost about pushing products. Early on in this documentary, one of its contributors describes Sesame Street as "What television would do if it loved people rather than trying to sell to people," and all of the magic comes from there.
Could television be socially useful? To Americans, this was a new idea. It began with Joan Ganz Cooney, who imagined a series which could prepare young children for school and help to close the literacy gap between kids from different backgrounds, improving the life chances of those from the inner cities and reducing the economic gap between Americans of different races.
Could television be socially useful? To Americans, this was a new idea. It began with Joan Ganz Cooney, who imagined a series which could prepare young children for school and help to close the literacy gap between kids from different backgrounds, improving the life chances of those from the inner cities and reducing the economic gap between Americans of different races.
- 12/11/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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