A 28-minute fever dream where '70s fashion meets your brain on shuffle.
Analyses how people process information. Pretty girls, bizarrely dressed men and some improvisational actors demonstrate attention, language processing, long and short term memory, mnemonics, retrieval strategies, and problem solving.
Production
Glorious 1970s set design and fashion crimes.
Practical Effects
Bizarre live demonstrations that barely work.
Editing
Chaotic cuts between experts and 'pretty girls'.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This captures peak cognitive psychology popularization — before brain scans, when live demos and charisma carried science to the masses.
David Steinberg was a rising comedian who'd later direct Curb Your Enthusiasm — his 'host' energy here is barely contained chaos.
US
