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Expert Witness | London, England
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Outstanding Achievement in Casting Feature Studio or Independent Comedy | 2012 | Gaby
Box Office Collection 9,504,139 USD
Dr. Granville's electromechanical vibrator was portable but had a wet cell battery that weighed about 40 pounds.
Director 'Tanya Wexler' stated that the hardest shot to get for the movie was of two ducks mating. After filming hundreds of hours of ducks with nothing to show for it, they finally got the shot they needed when someone found a video on YouTube.
The claim that vibrators were used by doctors to cure hysteria has been since debunked in a 2018 study ("A Failure of Academic Quality Control: The Technology of Orgasm", in Journal of Positive Sexuality, by Hallie Lieberman and Eric Schatzberg).
Joseph Mortimer Granville was well into his 50s when he invented his 'Pecussor'. He never intended it to be used to treat 'hysteria' and refused to treat women at all.To quote his own notes on the apparatus: 'I have never yet percussed a female patient ... I have avoided, and shall continue to avoid the treatment of women by percussion, simply because I do not wish to be hoodwinked, and help to mislead others, by the vagaries of the hysterical state'.
In both 19th Century set movies involving 1800s medicine in England that actor Jonathan Pryce has starred in, The Doctor and the Devils (1985) and Hysteria (2011), Pryce plays a character who is first-named 'Robert' in both, portraying Robert Fallon and Dr. Robert Dalrymple respectively.
"Edmund St. John-Smythe: [brainstorming] The Rubby-Nubby. Mortimer Granville: The Vibratorium. Edmund St. John-Smythe: The Jiggly-Wiggly? Mortimer Granville: Paroxysmator. Edmund St. John-Smythe: Oh, the Sorcerer's Apprentice. Mortimer Granville: The Excitetator? Edmund St. John-Smythe: Mr. Wobbly. Mortimer Granville: Oh, please. Edmund St. John-Smythe: What about, The Squealer?"
"[first lines] Mrs. Bellamy: I truly don't even know why I'm here, doctor. [pen scraping] Mrs. Bellamy: Well, of course it's difficult running a large household by oneself. And raising four children is exacting, but they're wonderful, wonderful children. And my husband, he's a good man. A very hard worker. Um... Ahem. Well, there is just one thing. Sometimes at night, when he comes to me, I imagine myself splitting his fat bald head with a great large ax. [pen scraping]"
