Quote:
"The NFB Programme Committee of the time [...] criticized the idea as uncinematic—it was just an illustrated speech, said most of our male colleagues. Besides, they added, [Helen] Caldicott was, well, shrill. Strident. Hysterical. Once Planet was made but before it was released, distribution officials at the NFB said we should remove the clips featuring Ronald Reagan as a bomber pilot in old war movies; they would offend the U.S., and besides, were a 'cheap joke.' What they failed to understand was that women weren't laughing at the correlation between nuclear madness, machismo, and media. We resisted this internal self-censorship. Planet has become one of the most-used films in Canadian history."
-- Bonnie Sherr Klein

Source:
Sherr Klein, Bonnie. "Illusions and Realities in the Media." Canadian Woman Studies / Les Cahiers de la femme 8, no. 1 (1987). (pp. 72-73)