"CONQUEST" TV SHOW PSYCHOLOGICAL ANIMAL RESEARCH EXPERIMENT w/ MONKEYS ABOUT LOVE 10624 (1960)

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This black & white educational film "Mother Love" is about animal research about love. This is a 1960 CBS News presentation. A baby monkey lays about (:06-:22). Title card: Conquest (:23-:34). Charles Collingwood introduces us to this film about science. This about the measure of love (:35-1:17). Primate laboratory at The University of Wisconsin at Madison as our host holds a baby Rhesus Monkey. 120 of these monkeys are in the lab. They are trying to measure an infants love for his mother. They are very similar to human babies (1:18-3:50). They are going to do a test with 2 different kinds of mothers, one is a wire mother, the other is cloth mother. Both have bottles. The first monkey goes to the cloth monkey. When you remove the bottle, the monkey will bounce between the two due to comfort and food and comfort vs food (3:51-8:01). The monkey will be introduced to a diabolical looking apparatus. When he is scared he runs to the cloth mother and after hugging her for a moment, he becomes less fearful and he yells at the apparatus (8:02-9:44). They place the monkey into a strange room without his mother. They then add a wire mother, the monkey still avoids the wire. When a cloth mother is added, the monkey goes right to her. He will then investigate if his cloth mother is around. They continue and add a cloth mother to a room with a strange looking creature. The monkey rushes to the cloth mother (9:45-13:31). They set up a barricade but the monkey springboards himself to the…

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25 minutes

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Ephemeral Films

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