“The Hypnotic Eye”
“The Hypnotic Eye” is a really cheesy B&W movie from 1960 featuring a sinister stage hypnotist whose subjects are somehow mysteriously disfiguring themselves. One of the major points of the movie is that the producers hired famous stage hypnotist Gil Boyne to coach the actor who played the stage hypnotist on how to perform on stage, plus he actually hypnotized the actors to go into trance on cue during filming, so that when they were supposed to be acting as though they were hypnotized, they really were!
The movie was unavailable for many years (primarily because ownership of the movie was not exactly in dispute but was certainly uncertain) but recently Amazon began to sell DVDs of it. Unfortunately, the DVDs are very primitive: there is no additional material and the menu system is strictly utilitarian. I experimented with a better menuing system as practice even before the Amazon DVD was available, incorporating a number of extras that were in my collection including a slideshow of promotional stills, what trailers were available, interviews, etc. The entire DVD is still unfinished but it does show the menuing basics that were absent from the Amazon version.
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