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Project Nim is a 2011 documentary film directed by James Marsh. [3] It tells the life story of a chimpanzee named Nim Chimpsky, who was the center of a research project that was mounted in the 1970s to determine whether a primate raised in close contact with humans would develop a limited "language" based on American Sign Language.
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Jul 20, 2011 · Project Nim is the new documentary about a chimpanzee raised in a human household as part of an experiment to see if chimps could learn language. Director James Marsh and two of the people who ...
Aug 12, 2011 · Project Nim: Directed by James Marsh. With Nim Chimpsky, Stephanie LaFarge, Herbert Terrace, Wer LaFarge. Tells the story of a chimpanzee taken from its mother at birth and raised like a human child by a family in a brownstone on the upper West Side in the 1970s.
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Oct 11, 2019 · Project Nim Revisited. Forty years later, a Columbia professor shares what he learned from a high-profile experiment in which he tried to teach a chimp human language. By. Carla Cantor. October 11, 2019. In 1973, Herbert Terrace set out to do what no researcher had accomplished: to teach a chimpanzee to use simple aspects of language.
Nim Chimpsky was a chimpanzee who learned sign language and lived with human foster parents in the 1970s. The film explores his journey from a research project to a melancholy captivity, and the ethical questions it raises.
From the Oscar®-winning team behind MAN ON WIRE comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who became the focus of a landmark 1970s experiment to show that an ap...
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