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How to Sleep (1935)

APPROVED 11 min  -  Comedy | Short  -   14 September 1935 (USA)
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A humorous look at the problems people have trying to sleep.

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Nick Grinde

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Robert Benchley
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Storyline

A lecturer seated at a desk promises an informative film about how to sleep; it's a sequel to and inspired by "How to stay awake," which put his audience to sleep. He plans to examine the causes of sleep, the causes of insomnia, and recent research on sleep, including a time-lapse film of a man changing positions 55 times during an 8-hour rest: why exercise, he asks, when you can sleep like a top? The film instructs one on how to get a drink of water during the night without waking completely, and other useful skills for the insomniac. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>  

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Sleep | Insomnia | Soliloquy | Food | Window Shade  | See more »

Genres:

Comedy | Short

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Country:

USA

Language:

English

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) See more »
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Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1
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Trivia

Featured as an extra on the DVD of the Marx Brothers film A Night at the Opera. See more »

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Referenced in How to Start the Day (1937) See more »