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I have decided to transcribe the innocence of children's education using the corruption of sadism to invoke mixed audience reaction. It should either be taken with humour, or great disgust.

Here is a childrens educational programme which has a good foundation for the innocence featured for its target audience. Letterland was used when I was a young child to help me learn to read and write, by using characters which letters matched their appearance. For example, the letter "C" was represented as a character called "Clever Cat". Notice the bright colour schemes used, and as if it was spawned from the mind of a child itself.

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The colour schemes and childish imagery used could be easily manipulated to create a piece which is distasteful towards social acceptance if such notions are corrupted by foul play.

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The above video is from the children's TV series "Rainbow", where the use of non-intented (or intended in several purposefully rude spoofs) use innuendos that ring bells within the adult mindset. This can be taken with great humour, or with great offense. Taking this issue farther, when the characters purposefully use foul language we see an even greater break of the innocence and corrupts the programme on an almost uncanny
level.

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Here you can see the characters of Sesame Street taking their "acting" to another level, where they are usually cuddly and cute they now become distinctly adult by swearing. They swear right in children's faces, which as moral would say this is wrong we cant help but find this somewhat hilarious.

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Sometimes the innocence of a childrens programme is not interupted by anti social language or visual innuendo, but just taken to a level of atmosphere so dark that it feels wrong to be for childrens eyes. The above film does just this, making the audience feel very uneasy and somewhat violated as for children this film linguers within a dark, often menacing, scary territory.

Chris