Medical Quacks & Quackery Films-1940s-50s On Dvd For Sale

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MEDICAL QUACKS & QUACKERY FILMS-1940s-50s on DVD

Total Running Time is approximately75 minutes

Quacks and Nostrums- This informational film shows the ways in which medical "quacks" dupe American consumers, particularly the elderly, and what the FDA, FTC and the AMA are doing about.

Producer: Crawley Films
Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W 19:01 Minutes

Medical Quacks- This film is actually a 30 minute episode of "Confidential Files", a pioneering, hard hitting, television program produced throughout the 1950's. Prefaced by a dramatization of a woman with a large lump on her neck who is treated by a doctor who hooks her up to a strange medical device and then gives her some unknown pills to cure her.

Production Company: KTTV
Audio/Visual: sound, 29:28 Minutes

Relax- Critically acclaimed professor Donald Laird from Colgate University demonstrates his "remarkable scientific equipment" that can measure and test the amount of productivity and relaxation a person can achieve under varying degrees of stress.
Audio/Visual: sound, color

10:28 Minutes

Studies in Hypnosis- This silent 1940's film shows a young woman being hypnotized (and quite easily I might add) and then poked, prodded and subject to the art of suggestion - "Your Arm is very stiff!" ~ "I'm going to touch your hand with a red hot instrument" ~ "You are now blind!".

Audio/Visual: silent, b&w 9:26 Minutes

Medical Quackery (PSA)- Famous news correspondent Raymond Massey is the spokesman for this Public Service Announcement released by the FDA in the 1950's warning seniors not to buy into quackery and "quack" cures including an oblong object that supposedly emits "Z-Rays" that will cure arthritis and taped music that will supposedly cure all types of cancer.

01:20 Minutes

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