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How to Sleep

How to Sleep

6,6 /10 (19 Votes)
1935 EN 11 min

Overview

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.

Release date

14/09/1935

Votes

19

Popularity

0.6

A humorous look at the problems people have trying to sleep.

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

11 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2025-06-28

⭐ 7

One of life’s imponderables. Why is it that when we have no need to get up in the morning, we can rest easy but when we do, we toss and turn until ten minutes before we need to get up? Well this quite amiable short feature allows Robert Benchley to talk us through the do’s and don’ts of trying to get some sleep. Late night fridge-raiding doesn’t help, nor do dripping taps, or open windows or too much bedding. Apparently, we change positions at night some fifty-five times and using some fun time-lapse photography and an entertaining narration we look at some of the comfortable, foetal and downr…

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