On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:46:37 -0800, Rick Froman wrote:
>I was considering having a mini-film festival as the semester ends
>in my Psychological Testing class. I don't mean long films but short
>clips from films that could be entertaining but also allow for some
>re-capitulation of the principles discussed in the semester. Some
>of my favorites are the testing of Leon from Blade Runner (you
>want to talk about my mother?) and the "psychiatrist" from Miracle
>on 34th St. I also once saw a short on one of the movie channels
>(probably TCM) called something like "Psychometrician". It was
>one of those one reel movies that described a particular occupation.
>This one was particularly intriguing because it showed the psychometrician
>at work giving some hapless examinee a stress test that seemed to
>involve, if my memory is correct, shooting off a starter pistol behind
>the man's head. I guess someone thought that would be an occupation
>someone might be interested in. I have searched IMDb and the web
>and have never been able to find it. That would be an interesting one
>to record if I ever see it again.
I believe that you're referring to a short film made by the director
George Sidney ("Viva Las Vegas!"). He is listed on www.imdb.com
but there is nothing in his entry that is titled "psychometrician"; see:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0796645/
The closest candidate might be "What's Your IQ? #2".
Even so, a search of books.google.com provides a hit that is
Sidney's biography by Eric Monder which has a snippet about a
"psychometrician" firing a shotgun behind a person's head; see:
http://books.google.com/books?lr=&num=100&id=1n5ZAAAAMAAJ&dq=mgm+short+psychometrician+movies&q=psychometrician+#search_anchor
or
http://tinyurl.com/y99jf49
The book is available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble (B&N have
the cheaper price) but perhaps you can get it through interlibrary loan.
-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu
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