- Title: U.S.A.: CHICKENS HYPNOTISED IN RESEARCH INTO CAUSES OF HUMAN CATATONIA.
- Date: 11th February 1975
- Summary: 1. GV Psychologist snapping chicken out of trance. 0.16 2. SV Laboratory assistant attempting eye contract. 0.35 3. CU PAN ACROSS Erect chicken legs. 0.38 4. GV & CU Stuffed chicken-hawk shown to chicken. (3 shots) 1.02 TRANSCRIPT: "Tulane University Psychology Lab. looks a bit like a poultry farm these days...since Dr. Gordon Gallup has undertaken a research project which begins with proving that chickens are really "chicken". The chicken is put into a sort of hypnotic trance -- which Gallup calls "tonic immobility". For the chicken it's simply a matter of holding him down for a moment and establishing eye contact. Instinct tells the chicken that predators seldom go for dead prey...so the chicken plays possum. It's a phenomenon, Gallup says, common to all animals... and he says his research could provide a model for studying human catatonia -- a trance-like state induced by the inability to cope with emotional stress." "Gallup says the research project has already produced positive indications of one day helping schizophrenics control catatonia...and perhaps even avoid the catatonic state altogether. Gallup's poultry helps with fear which knows no bounds...succumbing even to a stuffed chicken-hawk...which, let's face it, is operating these days on reputation alone. This is Bob Creiger in New Orleans." Initials VS 7.50 VS 8.00 TELERECORDING REPORTER: BOB CREIGER This film is serviced with a commentary by Television News Incorporated reporter Bob Creiger. Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 25th February 1975 12:00
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- Location: NEW ORLEANS, U.S.A.
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- Country: USA
- Reuters ID: LVA6HPH1B86IRILL8UJAJR3YJ5BH
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