On 3/1/06 3:06 PM, "Bergman, Barbara J" <barbara.bergman@mnsu.edu> wrote:
>
> Ciara - You win for crazy situation!
>
> Whereas, my teacher friend was told by her administration to ask for
> permission to show "Twister" in her 8th grade science class during the
> tornado unit. After the second or third time of asking, the film
> company sent her information about educational fair use, and told her to
> quit asking.
> (Fun project - they study storm chasers and then analyze the movie for
> facts & errors, such as all the safety guidelines that are ignored.)
>
> bb
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: videolib-bounces@library.berkeley.edu
> [mailto:videolib-bounces@library.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Ciara Healy
> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 8:15 PM
> To: videolib@library.berkeley.edu
> Subject: RE: [Videolib] Edited Movies
>
> I spent the school year working as a middle school librarian. Though it
> was the case that I had to grudgingly police all kinds of copyright
> violations (wierd stuff like principal wants to photocopy music from a
> chorus book so students can all (1100 of them) sing a song during
> assembly) the worst kinds of transgression were with videos. I
> encouraged the principal to get this kind of blanket license from a
> company that claimed, for a flat fee, to be able to allow you to show
> Disney films and the like. At least that would cover the worst of it.
> The brochure specifically cited "last day of school" as one of the many
> wonderful uses of this license. I was curious - how does a Disney film
> ever count as fair use i.e. part of the curriculum, even on the last day
> of school? But if he had a license, then... whatever.
>
> Teachers were ravenous to show videos to the chidren because then they
> quieted down and paid some kind of attention. Any video, from any
> source, at any time; ones from blockbuster, from home or wherever. No
> one complained - ever. Not the parents, not the teachers, not kids.
> Nobody. An underreaction, no?
>
> On the last day of school I found out the principal OK'd using the
> in-school brodcasting system to pipe Black Hawk Down to every classroom.
> I only found out when someone came in and asked me if I would pop in the
> next film (I forget what it was) as they thought it was being broadcast
> from my office. Whoops!
>
> While I am against censorship in all of its bullshit "family values"
> guises (while creatively resisting a teacher-led challenge of Persepolis
> AND a "please pull from the shelves until further notice" order for The
> Bluest Eye AND a near district-wide ban of Kaffir Boy ) I think that
> parents should at least know what their children watch. Even if they
> keep letting them watch it. Would principal have sent home a permission
> form asking parents if that film was acceptable for their children to
> watch? Probably not.
>
> Reactions and over reactions aside, Black Hawk Down is no Wallace and
> Gromit. That is the irony. Persepolis is challenged while no one bats an
> eye at showing violent war films - rated R due to violent content - to
> 6th, 7th and 8th graders.
>
> It is the under reaction as much as the over reaction that makes you
> shudder. "Meets a need" ain't in it.
>
>
>>>> barbara.bergman@mnsu.edu >>>
>
> Although I'm scratching my head as to what they could possibly have
> found to edit in Wallace & Gromit or Pride & Prejudice (these are
> apparently people who also complain about language on broadcast TV), I
> know that using editted films is often the only way that K-12 teachers
> can show some films -- over-zealous administrators who are concerned
> about over-reactive parents tend to issue edicts about R-rated films --
> so I guess it meets a need.
>
> ~Barb
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: videolib-bounces@library.berkeley.edu
> [mailto:videolib-bounces@library.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Kathy
> Turnquist
> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 9:15 AM
> To: Videolib
> Subject: [Videolib] Edited Movies
>
> Is this site the reincarnation of FamilySafeMedia?
>
> CleanFlicks http://cleanflicks.com/index.html
> "We are the leading provider of Edited Hollywood movies. We remove all:
> Profanity, Nudity, Graphic Violence, Sexual Content. Over 700 Edited
> titles!"
>
> Reading the list of profanity they promise to edit out, I had to laugh
> while I guessed at all the "B-, H-, D-, and S-words" they might mean.
> (Those are bad words?)
> Kathy
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