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Ian Oswald (4 August 1929 – 25 April 2012) was a sleep researcher and psychiatrist. [1] Academic career. He was educated first in London and later in Belper, ...
Agent for H.A.R.M. is a 1966 science fiction spy thriller directed by Gerd Oswald and starring Mark Richman, one of a number of spy thrillers of the era having conspicuous sci-fi elements. Here it is the deadly spores which turn human flesh into fungus on contact. The film was intended to be the television pilot for a new spy series. However ...
Films about sleep, a naturally recurring state of mind and body, characterized by altered consciousness, relatively inhibited sensory activity, reduced muscle activity and inhibition of nearly all voluntary muscles during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, [1] and reduced interactions with surroundings.
Fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000 know Oswald as the director of the 1966 film Agent for H.A.R.M. He was an assistant director for 20 years, including on his father's film The Captain from Köpenick (completed in 1941, but only released in 1945), aka Passport to Heaven and I Was a Criminal .
Initially, it was thought that sleep was simply a mechanism for the body to "take a break" and reduce wear. Later observations of the low metabolic rates in the brain during sleep seemed to indicate some metabolic functions of sleep. [109] This theory is not fully adequate as sleep only decreases metabolism by about 5–10%.
Kitchen is a 1966 feature-length underground film directed by Andy Warhol and Ronald Tavel starring Edie Sedgwick and Roger Trudeau with appearances by Rene Ricard, Ronald Tavel, David McCabe, Donald Lyons, and Elektrah Lobel (aka Elektrah). The entire film takes place in the New York City apartment kitchen of Bud Wirtschafter, the sound man. [1]
John Allan Hobson (June 3, 1933 – July 7, 2021 [1]) was an American psychiatrist and dream researcher. He was known for his research on rapid eye movement sleep.He was Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, Harvard Medical School, and Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
The duration of Sleep was trimmed to 15 minutes when it was screened with its successor Kiss at Boston's Park Square Cinema in July 1964. [16] Only 12 minutes of the Sleep was shown at the New York Film Festival in September 1964, but it was repeated continuously throughout the evening. [17] Images from the film appear in later artworks by Warhol.