A Brief History of Making Danish Film and Television for Children and Young Audiences

This chapter offers a brief history of Danish live action film and television for children and young audiences, since many historical developments and previous approaches still influence the perceptions of what defines ‘good content’ in the mediascape of the early 2020s. The chapter outlines the public financing structures and public service television remit that are fundamental for this particular small nation production framework, focusing on the production of feature and short films, television fiction, as well as educational cinema. The chapter ends by presenting the multiplatform mediascape for children and adolescents with national dedicated children’s channels and online universes trying to compete with international platforms and other media forms for the attention of the youngest audiences.