seeing a TV western, said delightedly, “I did not realize you 
valued human life so little in the West.” Offsetting this remark 
is the behavior of our children in watching TV westerns. When 
equipped with the new experimental head-cameras that follow 
their eye movements while watching the image, children keep 
their eyes on the faces of the TV actors. Even during physical 
violence their eyes remain concentrated on the facial reactions , 
rather than on the eruptive action . Guns, knives, fists, all are 
ignored in preference for the facial expression. TV is not so 
much an action, as a re-action, medium.

     The yen of the TV medium for themes of process and 
complex reactions has enabled the documentary type of film to 
come to the fore. The movie can  handle process superbly, but 
the movie viewer is more disposed to be a passive consumer of 
actions, rather than a participant in reactions. The movie