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DetailsOriginal Format: 16mm Colour: Black & White Sound: Silent Duration: 6 mins
Subject: EDUCATION MILITARY / POLICE
Summary This film was an observation test used by the West Yorkshire Police to test new recruits’ memories. The film asks the viewer to remember as many objects or actions as they can.
Description
This film was an observation test used by the West Yorkshire Police to test new recruits’ memories. The film asks the viewer to remember as many objects or actions as they can.
Title – Have you a good memory?
Title – You will be shown fifty different objects, or every-day actions.
Title – Each will be shown for at least five seconds.
Title – (sequential) 1 Second, 2 Seconds, 3 Seconds, 4 Seconds, 5 Seconds.
Title – O.K.?
Title – Starting now…
The shots follow in order: turning on a car...
This film was an observation test used by the West Yorkshire Police to test new recruits’ memories. The film asks the viewer to remember as many objects or actions as they can.
Title – Have you a good memory?
Title – You will be shown fifty different objects, or every-day actions.
Title – Each will be shown for at least five seconds.
Title – (sequential) 1 Second, 2 Seconds, 3 Seconds, 4 Seconds, 5 Seconds.
Title – O.K.?
Title – Starting now…
The shots follow in order: turning on a car ignition, pressing foot down on clutch and shifting gear, a sign that reads ‘Low bridge headroom 15’ – 9”’, a steam train driving up a slope, an old fashioned car indicator signalling, a sign that reads ‘School’, a set of dead traffic lights, an aeroplane flying overhead, a sign that reads ‘Bend’, a shot of a street with a street sign that reads ‘St. Johns Grove’, a young girl posting a letter, a house buzzer with bells for A and B, some change on a table, a postage stamp machine, a boy scouts pin, a clock face, a group of cogs and wheels, a grandfather clock pendulum, a measuring scale, a light switch, scrap piece of paper being swept up, buffing some metal buttons, a boy brushing his teeth, a woman putting on lipstick, a man laughing, someone pumping water from a bucket, a facet, a boiling kettle, a man operating a steam press, a sewing machine stitching fabric together, a Morse code telegraph machine, a man playing the piano, someone typing on a typewriter, stapling documents together, weighing scales, filing wood, sawing wood, pouring ink into an ink well, a chestnut being cracked, a shoe lace being tied, letters being spat out from a printing press, cogs being turned by a corkscrew, a film projector running, a door knob opening, a two shillings coin, a half penny coin, an ashtray.
Title - ...and the last one...
Title – Were the figures on the clock face Arabian or Roman?
Title – How many can you remember?