European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Escalating War on video Nastiest by Felix Gutierrez associated press concerned that children Are golfing their hands on such video Nastiest As a three part Lape showing a human autopsy and the Slaughter of animals Many Stales Are toughening Laws on Labelling cassettes and restricting youths Access to them. The autopsy Slaughler video called faces of death carries no motion picture association of America rating and has been rented at video shops by children As Young As 12. A youngster cannot see an a rated movie at the Box office. But he can rent it and see it in his Home said Christie Gors me a Junior league official in Riverside Calif. Tho system i hat is working at Iho Box office is not working at the video  Gorsline said her group will propose a Law requiring Paa ratings on videos. California lawmakers Are considering a Bill making it a Misdemeanour to sell or rent unrated videos to minors without parental consent. Georgia Illinois Tennessee and Maryland now requite Paa rating labels on videos. Convicted video dealers face maximum fines ranging from $25 in Maryland 1o $100 in Georgia bul the Ftp a s Gail Markels knows of no prosecutions. Video Label Bills Are before new York new Jersey and Massachusetts lawmakers. A hav reviewed these Bills end in general have opposed them said Markels noting that most videos already carry Paa ratings. Some Bills bar juveniles from renting r or a rated videos which Markels Calls clearly unconstitutional Lor using voluntary ratings to determine what can or cannot be seen in a  tha video software dealers association has joined the motion picture association in its tight against Labelling Laws said Richard Karpei. Of the dealers group. His personal opinion is that the Content of unrated videos is made dear by the title and pictures. With or without labels warn film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert More kids Are watching video Aslies tapes featuring graphic scenes of blood and violence the grisly horror tapes with titles Sui As bloodsucking freaks and make them die slowly me watched at video Nastiest parties by kids who compete id see who can look the longest say Siskel and Ebert. I think a lot of parents who hear their kids screaming in the family room May think they Are looking at a horror my like they saw 20 years ago said Ebert. But these movies Are really in a different category. One of the things they often have in common is the mutilation and sadistic torture of women. The movie bloodsucking freaks Lor example has a magician who has shows at his Homo for invited audiences in which women have their Heads crushed in Iron bands and electrical shocks applied through clamps to their nipples Ebert said in a Telephone interview. What we re finding is the kids do the selection said Jane Brown an associate professor of journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Shown in expert on youths use of videos which she called the new baby Sitter cited her own and other studios showing possible harmful a flecks of video violence on children. Ii s Clear from a lot of previous evidence thai these kinds of violent depictions Are imitated and people who watch a lot of that ate desensitized in violence said Brown. They May be More Likely to consider violent behaviour reasonable in solving problems and interpersonal conflicts " the unrated faces of death series features actual footage of dead bodies people being killed and slaughtering of animals. An opening scene shows a human body being sliced open and organs being removed in an apparent autopsy we be had a number of complaints about faces of death any time there is a film or a video with an extraordinary amount of violence said Shan jone9. A California Parent teacher association official in Ohio a Bill has been introduced to prohibit Sale or rental to youths under 18o1 videos that show animal killings or human autopsies in i healers. An a rating alerts parents the material May not be suitable for children under 17. While an a rating profit Els admission to youths under 17. Some Junior league officials Are calling Lor an re filing to identify movies that Are particularly violent some video Loros place a videos in separate Section and will nol rent them to youths but a " tapes Are More cd