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Darryl Revok:
This was a test campaign used in 1947 to market a new product. The product was a drug, a tranquilizer called 'Ephemerol'. It was aimed at pregnant women. If it had worked it would have been marketed all over North America. But the campaign failed and the drug failed, because it had a side effect on the unborn children. An invisible side effect. Cameron:
It created Scanners
This was a test campaign used in 1947 to market a new product. The product was a drug, a tranquilizer called 'Ephemerol'. It was aimed at pregnant women. If it had worked it would have been marketed all over North America. But the campaign failed and the drug failed, because it had a side effect on the unborn children. An invisible side effect. Cameron:
It created Scanners
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This was a test campaign used in 1947 to market a new product
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The product was a drug a tranquilizer called Ephemerol
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It was aimed at pregnant women
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If it had worked it would have been marketed all over North America
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But the campaign failed and the drug failed
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because it had a side effect on the unborn children
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an invisible side effect
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It created Scanners
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Movie Summary
A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called "scanning" to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non scanners.
Actors
Darryl Revok
