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Confidential File: Horror Comics (1955)
Directed by Irvin Kershner
“Seduction Of The Innocent”
Documentary, TV Movie, Crime · 25m
In 1954 the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency conducted an investigation into how the comic book industry was supposedly contributing to the moral decay of a nation's youth. The investigations were spurred on by a number of articles that blamed comics for the rise in juvenile delinquency in post-war America. Chief among the critics was Doctor Frederic Wertham, whose book, "Seduction of The Innocent" has been blamed for nearly single-handedly crippling the entire comics industry. "Confidential File" was aired in 1955, after the senate hearings and the formation of the Comics Code, but it serves as a perfect example of how the media reacted to the comic book industry, and sought a scape goat by blaming the comic book publications for society's own lack of responsibility in raising its children.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Irvin Kershner
Details
- Release date
- 1955-10-09
- Runtime
- 25m
- Genres
- Documentary, TV Movie, Crime
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- KTTV Los Angeles