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July 21

For the Sake of Appearance

Do any of you guys know any information about the 1973 tv series titled For the Sake of Appearance. I'm wanting to find information about the show because I'm creating a draft for it and I want to know if the show has survived so can any of you send me the links here. Matthew John Drummond (talk) 12:52, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Genome listing Nanonic (talk) 12:58, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Has the show survived or is it now lost. I need to know for this Wikipedia page. Matthew John Drummond (talk) 05:19, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Older child actors playing younger characters

Why do most older child actors play younger characters? For instance; 8 or 9-year-olds as 6 or 7-year-olds, 13 or 14-year-olds as 11 or 12-year-olds and 15 or 16-year-olds as 12 or 13-year-olds. 86.129.82.17 (talk) 19:57, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Who says they do? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 22:16, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

There are legal limits to the work children can do: maximum hours per day and per week, dangerous environments, night-time work. Those rules get less strict as the child gets older, making it easier for film makers to work with older children. Furthermore, they become better actors as they get older. So it's best to work with the oldest available child that can believably play the age asked for by the script. PiusImpavidus (talk) 08:15, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Which doesn't explain how Jack Benny, who had then been 39 for several years, played an Oxford undergrad in Charley's Aunt. —Tamfang (talk) 00:49, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

Suspension of disbelief is a requirement to enjoy most movies. I was very confused when I first saw Grease that a thirty-year-old woman was still in high school. It remains to be seen what AI will be able to do with the apparent age of actors. Shantavira|^{feed me} 12:40, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Who needs (human) actors when we have AI?  --Lambiam 14:19, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Indeed. Why waste time and money on actual intelligence when any half-smart kid can create their own. Hell, let's go all the way and have artificial sex and reproduction, artificial human life, artificial education, artificial politics, artificial governments, ... wait, we already have some of them. Anyway, we could try artificial wars to reduce the loss of life; and then artificial death, and hey presto, we've created immortality. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 03:20, 1 August 2024 (UTC)