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Best shot in this disturbing but laugh-loaded short (18 min.) film: Harvard's famed Earnest Albert Hooton gloomily winding up a deadpan lecture to an anthropology class: "Mechanized and moronic man moves toward extinction. . . . Any questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 16, 1946 | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

Sweltering under a combination of ties, suitcoats, and kleig lights, 30 Anthropology students participated in the March of Time filming of a lecture by Earnest A. Hooton, Professor of Anthropology, at 11 o'clock yesterday morning in Peabody Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hooton Sees End Of Moronic Man As Cameras Roll | 7/26/1946 | See Source »

Pencil and paper were readied as the simulated class prepared to take notes on Professor Hooton's one minute talk, the subject of which was man's back-sliding into his mechanical way of life. With a blackboard background portraying the evolution of man's brain, the speech, which ended, "mechanized and moronic man moves toward extinction," was repeated for an hour while the six man March of Time crew strove for the proper effect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hooton Sees End Of Moronic Man As Cameras Roll | 7/26/1946 | See Source »

...event, originally scheduled for two weeks ago, had been delayed several times, a fact which led Professor Hooton to remark, "It seems that these movie people are about as conscientious in keeping their college appointments as they are in keeping their wives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hooton Sees End Of Moronic Man As Cameras Roll | 7/26/1946 | See Source »

...Professor Hooton has been chosen primarily because his lectures are given in the laymen's language, but also, he has become a colorful public figure, an abrupt exponent of his theories," the March of Time said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: March of Time to Film Lecture by Hooton in Week | 7/9/1946 | See Source »

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