What would the children think?
The Vulture column at online arts ezine New York Entertainment has collated a slideshow of clips from twelve children’s films that have caused, or could now cause, controversy. They include:
- The new kid on the block – Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
- The Black Cauldron (1985) adapted from Lloyd Alexander’s Chronicles of Prydain
- Little Buddha (1993)
- A Disney trio: Dumbo (1941), Lady and the Tramp (1955), Peter Pan (1953)
- North (1994)
- Song of the South (1946) adapted from Joel Chandler Harris’s Uncle Remus stories
- The 5000 Fingers of Dr T (1953)Â – a Theodore Geisel affair, later disowned by him
- The Thief and the Cobbler (1964) – based on stories from the Arabian Nights
- Babe : Pig in the City (1998)
- The Brave Little Toaster (1987) adapted from a novel by Thomas M. Disch
More here about the brouhaha that Wild Things is generating, but for the rest, see the annotations on the slideshow.
The link to this fascinating piece of film history was first spotted on the educating alice blog.
