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Try to get a kid to watch a silent movie outside a theatre.
Try to get a kid to watch black and white. Anywhere.
It took me ten years to understand why my parents liked Bullwinkle more that I did.
If you show a kid a movie with pre-Star Wars FX, they will laugh at it.
Unless a kid has been brought up on musicals, they will not understand why suddenly the whole street breaks out in song. Willie Wonka worked because it was with kids the story was something they are interested in. A kid will not be interested in the transition between silent movies and sound. That was a hundred years ago to them. That was their great, great grandparents that they never met.
