CREEPY CHILD ABUSE tv Commercial 1975

Creepy Child Abuse commercial 1975

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Entertainment

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• anti
• child
• abuse
• commercial
• 1975

[spy4863]

The one thinig i still don't get about this ad is what does a child's record and a sweep through an empty house have to do with child abuse? Is it maybe to emphasize that you can't always tell from outward looks just what's going on inside the family-the sweep shows a seemingly ordinary house of a seemingly ordiinary family where child abuse was probably happening, but you can't tell that just from the outward looks of the house or the family. Is that perhaps the message of the ad?

[RetroGoop]

@spy4863 I always thought it had to do with the parents having maybe killed the kids or they were in the hospital from being beat up and the house was empty..

[GoobaTheGorilla]

I don't know why... But I get the feeling something's wrong....

[Lectronimo]

Man, I could go for some Smucker's jelly right about now

[Swampbuggy61]

@texasghost Think you might have it backwards historically. Child abuse wasn't on the rise in the 70's, but the wall of secrecy around it was cracking. Whether that veil was being lifted by media in our ever shrinking world (remember the real horrors of war for the first time in Vietnam on our evening newscasts), or it was because of Women's Lib and not being afraid to stand up to your no longer dominant but equal partner. The 70's wasn't the start of it, child labor laws from 1900's prove that.

[kate66061]

the child/ children are invisible, therefore when an outsider comes into the home, they see nothing, but get an eerie feeling

[kate66061]

perhaps its a child walking back into thier house, now older the house being abandoned and left how it was, remembering thier past.

[TheBookWorm1718]

@ghostrepublic Sounds like my grandmother too, even today at 93 when outsiders come to visit, she can put on such a nice act, but when it's just us...*cringe*. Nightmare is the definition of her.

[TheBookWorm1718]

@RetroGoop Yeah that's my take on it...think about it, WHERE is the child?

[formerbritneyfan]

i was born in 1967 my childhood years were the decade of the 70's, and i was being physically abused everyday of my life by my mother's then live in boyfriend whom she later married and the abuse still continued, why nothing was being done about it , because it was the 70's , and things were different back then , it was different time , a time of hush, hush, as some people put it.

[spy4863]

@RetroGoop I think I can understand why this ad comes off so creepy. The child abuse narrative, the shaky camera, the toy piano music, the empty house, the "point-of-view" camera angle, the camera sweep through the house, looking in every room, building up tension, as if something bad is about to happen, and finally climaxing in a child's upper bedroom, a very vunerable place in the house. All these are techniques used by horror film directors to build suspense. Still, I like this ad anyway.

[spy4863]

@AlvinaZane You have a very good point. I didn't even notice the missing railing piece until you pointed it out. I grew up in the 70's and at that time nobody even gave a second thought to such safety measures like bike helmets, lead paint and cribs with wife bars wide enough for a baby to slip their head through. We weren't stupid or unaware of safety measures, it's just that sometimes it only takes one accident to point out potential azards to people. Thanks for your safety conscious point.

[AlvinaZane]

@spy4863

your correct about not being able to tell from outward looks, but to me, that gap in the railing could be some serious accident waiting to happen.

[grettagrids]

I was born in 1975