Normally, a picture of a teen girl missing since age 3 would be computer aged wherever it was posted. (possibly in addition to the original picture) Neither the book nor the movie discussed this, despite the fact it COULD have been done at the time of Janie's disappearance-- it was odd.
shareThe book was written in like the 80s. I doubt they had anything to age the picture. Technology wasn't that good.
shareI believe it was written in the late 80's, when age progression pictures were common.
shareIt was written in the early 90s, actually, and I don't know why they didn't do an age progression. Perhaps the author just figured it would complicate the plot too much.
shareI checked the copywrite on the book and it was written in the 80's. The movie was made in the 90's.
shareThe book The Face on the Milk Carton was published in 1990 and in 1993 Whatever Happened To Janie? was published and in 1995 the two books where made into the movie The Face on the Milk Carton.
shareAge progression is a fairly recent technological advance. I don't believe they were doing it yet in the early and mid-90s.
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I saw a special on missing children where age-progression paintings of two missing sisters kidnapped by their father years before were featured, and quickly resulted in them being found! This special aired in the mid '80's.
If it was a special in the 80's then maybe around then it was new...so maybe it was still something that was cmplicated to do or very expensive?
I don't know this, I'm just guessing at why. And maybe like someone else said it just worked well for the story. It's more gradual in the book than the movie, like people at the cafeteria talking about how can anyone recognize a toddler after so many years, and Janie's internal musings her logical side telling her that theres no way she could remember herself at that age and yada yada.
The books "The Face on the Milk Carton" and "Whatever Happened To Janie" were written in the 80's...
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Who cares. Does it really matter that they didnt do age progression. On the back of my Visa ill every month there are pictures of missing children. They arent always age progressed even though some are very old.
shareI wonder how many of the very old pictures on your Visa bill result in the people in the pictures being found?
shareThe books were written in the early 90s. I think that they could do that ageing thing, but I'm not certain. Maybe Caroline B. Cooney just thought that it would be more of a thirller if the pictiure was of a younger Janie. I mean, if that age-progression thing really does work, I mean, it would be too weird to see a picture almost compltely of YOURSELF. Maybe Cooney wanted you to think that maybe Janie was just imagining things, leave it open so you could only guess at what could happen next. It would give away too much if she only saw a picture of herself as a teen. And also, if they did show the aged picture, then everyone in the cafeteria would be like, "Hey, that's a picture of Janie Johnson!"
shareYou have a point, but IMHO it seems kind of odd that the whole age-progression topic was completely ignored in this book. In the book "The Deep End Of The Ocean." the age-progression picture is what results in the missing boy being discovered.
shareThis book was first published in 1990. Probably The author worked on it for a few years in the 80's. The technology was not there at the time
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First of all the books were written in the 80's. Amazon is wrong. the copywrite in the book on the second or third page says the book was written in the 80's. Which are you going to believe? And second, why question the age progession thing?
sharethe books did have an age progression of Hannah though... that was odd.
shareI've seen milk cartons over the years that didn't have age progression (?)
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Well, maybe the Sands would have had to pay to have an age progression done and just didn't have the money.
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