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Stress
195610 min 17 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Ian MacNeill
Production: Nicholas Balla
Script: William Weintraub
Dr. Hans Selye's research and writings on the subject of stress are world-renowned. In this early documentary study, he is interviewed in his laboratories at the Université de Montréal, where he explains his discoveries. Stress, the general strain on the body caused by disease, injury or mental pressure, is explained and we are shown some of the experiments that led Dr. Selye to his discovery.
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Subject categories
- Psychology and Psychiatry > Emotional LifePortraits
- Health and Medicine > PortraitsResearchStress
Credits
- director
- Ian MacNeill
- producer
- Nicholas Balla
- script
- William Weintraub
- photography
- Lorne C. Batchelor
- sound
- George Croll
- editing
- Fergus McDonell
- animation
- Sidney Goldsmith
- narrator
- Geoffrey Hogwood
- re-recording
- George Croll
- music
- Maurice Blackburn