Summary

LEARNING TO LIVE WITH STRESS

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: LEARNING TO LIVE WITH STRESS
File Number: GLD-23 Beta SP
Color: Color
Type: Documentary
Year: 01/01/1973
Subjects: New York City
Description: Color 1973 Medical scientists talk about stress and how to control and lessen it Interviews with Dr Hans Selye of Montreal U, and Dr Herbert Benson of Harvard, as well as people having stressful jobs Interviews 00:01:23:00 Color 1973 ws ms Series of brief shots: Speeding 1970s ambulance and siren (good)paramedics heavy city traffic urban demolition site cu pedestrian sidewalk traffic CU an exposed beating heart black neighborhood people in meditation air traffic controllerplane in flight 00:07:00:00 Color 1973 ms cu Excellent people in MEDITATION (transcendental meditation class CU peaceful faces lost in meditation) 00:10:18:00 Color 1973 ls Man (in shadow) making graceful yoga movements on beach, as seagulls fly around him 00:10:35:00 Color 1973 vs Air traffic controllers, with shots of passenger jets in flight, touching down, etc controllers discuss stress of their job (one recalls the 1960 collision of two passenger planes over Brooklyn Staten Island, where 130 passengers were killed) 00:14:41:00 Color 1973 ls Excellent shot of 747 passenger jet plane flying past setting sun (almost travelogue-ish) 00:16:30:00 Color 1973 ms cu Excellent, graphic footage of lab experiments involving white rats (various) highlight is a white rat DISSECTED CUT OPEN for experiments (college or hospital lab class) 00:19:32:00 Color 1973 ls Very good shot of transcendental meditation group (people sitting in yoga lotus position, arms relaxed, eyes shut) sitting in circle Brief but excellent