Squeak the Squirrel (1957)

★★★★★ · Dr. Lester F. Beck · Fred591131 · 2024-08-19

This film was created by Dr. Beck, a University psychology professor at the University of Oregon. It explores animal behavior. Squeak is not a chipmunk but a golden mantle ground squirrel. He was found abandoned as a baby and raised by Dr. Beck’s family. The girl in the film is my Aunt Marilyn Beck. Dr Beck was head of the psychology department at the University of Oregon and later head of the film department at the University of Southern California.

★★★★★ · A future MENSA member? · GE_Pretzel · 2006-05-12

In this delightful animal psychology film, viewers are introduced to the titular squirrel as he moves about in his native environment. Squeak briefly interacts with other squirrels, reacts to his reflection in a mirror, and consumes some peanuts from the hand of a patient young girl. Shortly afterwards, however, the energetic fellow is held captive by researchers and placed into a laboratory setting complete with long pieces of string, wire screens, a glass tube, and a white box. Through the careful placement of peanuts, Squeak is given the incentive that he needs to gradually solve various…

★★★★★ · My wife loved this! · tirpider · 2006-09-02

I got a kiss AND a hug.

★★★★ · Or, creative feeding of forest animals · Wilford B. Wolf · 2005-03-16

A rather interesting film, seemingly aimed at either late elementary or middle school students, about animal learning. The film opens by introducing a ground squirrel given the cutsey name of Squeak as he runs around the forest. While not stated in the film, the outside shots appear to be done on the eastern rim of Crater Lake in southern Oregon. While a pleasent and jovial narrator describes the action-- much like you see in most nature films of the 1950s-- the first experiment is to show how Squeak would react to a mirror. Next, we have a young girl first feeding Squeak from her hand and…

★★★★ · Animal Psychology for kids! · Spuzz · 2006-01-18

Interesting film that starts out as a nature film (and again, the nature film is something we see far too little of here on the archive) about a cute plucky squirrel named Squeek, who is out in the wild eating nuts and what not. Soon, we find out heÃÂÃÂs adapted to humans so much that he will eat of your hand! So thatÃÂÃÂs a good opportunity to kidnap squeak and put him in a cage to do simplistic science experiments on him! These experiments donÃÂÃÂt border beyond the ÃÂÃÂpull the string for the nutÃÂÃÂ, but itÃÂÃÂs sure curious on how this film develops.