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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