Skip to main content
The largest online newspaper archive
A Publisher Extra® Newspaper

The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 160

Location:
San Francisco, California
Issue Date:
Page:
160
Extracted Article Text (OCR)

I Start THURSDAY 1 Doom reSBT y5vlT PUTS YOU IN IiniMllllllllMIII IMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMlll i if zy-x i 7 s' X. VI I -v I OO y. 11 "4 A jt' fw i' i i i "'III ill ii .1 ijt rr in '1Hr v'ni It DORINDA STEVENS AND MALOU PANTERA Deadly binoculars Film Hypnosis-a New ft it j- By David Watmough TIIE ART of scalp-pricking and generating cold shudders in the cause of entertainment has seen as much advance in this scientific age as the kindred arts of tear-jerking and rib-tickling. Just as wandering minstrel troupes have blossomed into lavish musicals, so the tradition of telling macabre tales at Halloween rzr if I if II has evolved to the point where the makers of the spine-tingling movie, "Horrors of the Black Museum," which opens at the Fox on Thursday, can invoke the aid of a novel film technique calling Hypnovista. Intended to heighten the When You Lie Down i iHXu yXw zK 5.

K- 1 effect of audience participation already stressed in the movie by CinemaScope. and color, the Hypnovista will be introduced in a special prologue to the London-set thriller about a berserk crime reporter who commits fiendish murders to provide copy for his stories. Emile Franchel, a California registered psychologist specializing in hypnosis, presents these experiments in the art of suggestion in the film's prologue. Post-experimental suggestions will also be planted with the audience, so as to convey the actual feelings of fear, hate, cold, etc. to tie in with the film sequences.

However, the motion picture doesn't lean exclusively on the persuasive powers of psychologist Franchel who, incidentally, demonstrates his powers of suggestion by running two enormous hypodermic needles through a young girl's arm. The movie features several murder devices based on some that were actually With Sin You 'Shake WEDNESDAY! RKO GOLDEN GATE Don Opt I PM I i fir: p-r Highlight is northern California '8 top entertainment guide, 2O0att3franrtar0xamUtf sy, jun 7, mt EMILE FRANCHEL A novel technique HERMAN COHEN Some gruesome gems HIGHLIGHT.

Get access to Newspapers.com

  • The largest online newspaper archive
  • 300+ newspapers from the 1700's - 2000's
  • Millions of additional pages added every month

Publisher Extra® Newspapers

  • Exclusive licensed content from premium publishers like the The San Francisco Examiner
  • Archives through last month
  • Continually updated

About The San Francisco Examiner Archive

Pages Available:
3,027,626
Years Available:
1865-2024