He was speaking at the inauguration of the ‘Children’s Film Festival-2007-08’, jointly organised by the Department of Public Instruction and Karnataka Education, Cultural and Children’s Film Society at Chikkaballapur.
Parents should make their children watch only good programmes broadcasted on Doordarshan, he added.
Negative impact
Also, the negative impact of the visual medium can be averted only when the children are encouraged to watch good children’s movies by both the parents and the teachers, said BEO R Ashwathaiah.
The impact of the visual medium on children is more in comparison to the audio medium. Thus, efforts should be directed towards broadcasting good visual elements in the TV channels. said DDPI Bella Shetty. Sudar Murthy , Ramakrishna of the education department, Naidu of the Children’s Film Society and others were present
No guests
The ‘Children’s Film Festival-2007-08’ held here at Zilla Centre had no guests. Child actor and director of the film Care of Footpath Master Kishan who was supposed to inaugurate the film fest, Zilla Panchayat president M B Chikkanarasimaiah and others who were supposed to take part in the function were conspicuous by their absence.
