Kids Studios Cartoon
Kids’ entertainment is supposed to be dominated by cartoons. There are quite a few generations that have grown up watching Tom & Jerry or Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. Cartoons were supposed to be appropriate entertainment for kids because they were so obviously unreal that anything that happened in them could not be likened to real violence. As studies reveal, however, violence in cartoons can be linked to violence in kids and kids’ studios (cartoon) need to be careful about what they show and how they show it.
Cartoons, being animation, have the advantage that they can show fantastic situations that are not possible in real life. Kids’ studios (cartoon) can show a huge rock fall on a character and flatten him, with no ill effects to him at all. A character burned with matchsticks between his toes only has blackened toes for a few seconds and then he is back to normal. While these make adults laugh because they are so impossible, kids cannot make such differentiations.
When a child sees a character performing a violent act with no long-term ill effects, he thinks it is actually okay to do it in real life. There are many incidents of children dying because they thought they could fly like Shaktimaan or Superman. In the same way, when Kids’ studios (cartoon) show a character unscathed after a violent attack, they believe it is actually harmless to try on each other. It is for this reason that kids’ studios (cartoon) have been warned to be careful about the content they show in children’s cartoon films.
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