memory recorder theme
A device used to record and replay someone's memories.
Examples
Professor Quatermass used a device to record a young lady's buried memory of a ritual slaughter and then played it back to an audience in "Quatermass and the Pit" (1967).
11 total · 6 major · 5 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: Minor Premise (2020) | major | Ethan helped to develop a machine that downloaded memories from people brains in such a manner that they could be shown as videos. For example, he showed off someone's memory of bird in flight in his lecture. The machine was central to the plot in so far as Ethan was working with the machine in a university research setting and was concerned about making it a success. |
| movie: Reminiscence (2021) | major | A main novelty of the film is a curious machine that allowed people to relive their memories. |
| movie: Strange Days (1995) | major | A main novelty of the film is an illegal electronic device that records memories and physical sensations directly from the wearer's cerebral cortex onto a MiniDisc-like device for playback. |
| movie: The Final Cut (2004) | major | A special memory recording implant, called the Zoe implant, is a main novelty of the film. |
| movie: Until the End of the World (1991) | major | Henry invented a kind of memory recorder that he used to let his blind wife see recordings of other people's memories. |
| tz1985e3x22 | major | A pawnbroker used a machine to excise certain memories from Simon's brain. |
| as1985e2x12 | minor | John and his team of scientists successfully rendered some early memories of their chimp subject on a video monitor. |
| movie: Captain Marvel (2019) | minor | Danvers' memories were extracted and stored in a crystal of some sort. |
| movie: Meet the Robinsons (2007) | minor | Lewis invented a device that extracted peoples' lost memories and play them out on a video screen. |
| movie: Quatermass and the Pit (1967) | minor | Quatermass used a device to record a young lady's buried memory of a ritual slaughter and then played it back to an audience. |