Citation :
« 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, vol. 8, no. 1 (1987). (pp. 72-73)
[en anglais]