Stress

"Feel the pulse of survival with Stress, a groundbreaking archival film where Dr. Hans Selye of the University of Montreal unravels the body’s silent alarm—stress—as a primal reaction sparked by the pituitary and adrenal glands. This mid-century gem plunges you into Selye’s lab: a rat trembles under a needle’s prick, glands flare, hormones surge—experiments that cracked the code of stress as a shield against disease, injury, or mind’s strain. The camera zooms—pituitary whispers to adrenals, cortisol floods—a dance of defense against life’s assaults. Selye’s calm voice narrates: stress isn’t just frayed nerves, but a universal jolt, from fever’s burn to heartbreak’s ache. The film shifts to hope—hormones wielded like lances, battling illness in medical strides. With vivid footage and crisp insight, it’s a mid-20th-century beacon on stress’s double edge. Archival Moments revives this hormonal hymn—subscribe to probe more from the labs of history!