Unnecessary fuss partie 5
Unnecessary Fuss is a film produced by Ingrid Newkirk and Alex Pacheco of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), showing footage shot inside the University of Pennsylvania's Head Injury Clinic in Philadelphia.
The footage was shot in 1983-4 by the researchers themselves as they inflicted brain damage on baboons with a hydraulic device[1] (video). The experiments were conducted as part of a research project into head injuries caused by vehicle and sports accidents. The footage shows the researchers laughing at the baboons as the brain damage is inflicted.
Sixty hours of audio- and video-tape were removed from the laboratory during a raid in May 1984 by the Animal Liberation Front, who handed it over to PETA. It was subsequently edited down to 26 minutes with a voice-over commentary by Newkirk, before being distributed to the media and to Congress. As a result of the publicity, the lab was closed down, the chief veterinarian fired, and the university placed on probation.
The title of the film, Unnecessary Fuss, comes from a statement made to The Globe and Mail by the head of the clinic, neurosurgeon Dr. Thomas Gennarelli, in 1983, before the raid.[2] He declined to describe his research to the newspaper because it had "the potential to stir up all sorts of unnecessary fuss."[3]
The footage was shot in 1983-4 by the researchers themselves as they inflicted brain damage on baboons with a hydraulic device[1] (video). The experiments were conducted as part of a research project into head injuries caused by vehicle and sports accidents. The footage shows the researchers laughing at the baboons as the brain damage is inflicted.
Sixty hours of audio- and video-tape were removed from the laboratory during a raid in May 1984 by the Animal Liberation Front, who handed it over to PETA. It was subsequently edited down to 26 minutes with a voice-over commentary by Newkirk, before being distributed to the media and to Congress. As a result of the publicity, the lab was closed down, the chief veterinarian fired, and the university placed on probation.
The title of the film, Unnecessary Fuss, comes from a statement made to The Globe and Mail by the head of the clinic, neurosurgeon Dr. Thomas Gennarelli, in 1983, before the raid.[2] He declined to describe his research to the newspaper because it had "the potential to stir up all sorts of unnecessary fuss."[3]
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