Now I've always been particularly interested in faces,
and the kind of messages which we send out
through our faces all the time.
But I would like to show you a slide or two.
[LAUGHTER]
Now I acquired these slides two years ago
when I first became interested in this
and I wrote to a number of department stores in London
and asked them to let me take portraits of the teddy bears
in their toy departments.
And it had an enthusiastic response and given every conceivable facility.
And I will show you a very small selection
of what must be a unique collection of these photographs which I've got.
And I'll give you a character interpretation
of each of the pictures which I see and you can tell me
whether you agree with me or not.
Now he seems to me to be a happy-go-lucky fellow,
very nice as a friend to go away on a holiday with.
Perhaps a little lightweight in terms of reliability and so on
but certainly fun to be with as a friend.
Now he on the other hand
[LAUGHTER]
and sex discrimination apart I think of all teddy bears as being 'he's.
Are there any she bears in the hall?
Well you see a very very small number.
The sex ratio amongst bears must be such
as to put the the continuance of the species into grave jeopardy.
[LAUGHTER]
This is a this is a bear of entirely different ilk.
I always imagined him to be a master butcher
in a small provincial town.
[LAUGHTER]
A member of the Town Council, an alderman maybe,
Very reliable, not by any means unconscious of his own importance
in his own world, in the scheme of things
but a really solid, and possibly stolid, citizen
of this small town.
[LAUGHTER]
He on the other hand I think is a bit naive.
[LAUGHTER]
he hasn't been around a great deal
I wouldn't give much for his IQ
[LAUGHTER]
but maybe as he grows up he will he will learn
the ways of the world a bit a bit better.
He is just rude.
[LAUGHTER]
And the last one I've got a picture of
[LAUGHTER]
seems to me to be a very dangerous sort of bear.
Very headstrong, I always think of him as my mafia bear
[LAUGHTER]
I don't think he's actually bright enough to be in any sense
to occupy one of the upper posts of the Mafia
but he might be a sort of local boss of some local cells mafia.
Now I'm going to have a look at some of the bears
who have come to this lecture,
and see if I can do a character analysis of some of these.
Could you just move over bear, so that I can sit down.
Right here this one here looks to me like a quite an old fellow.
I think he has a very definite sense of humour,
you can see this by the set of his eyes.
Slightly wry smile on his face on all the time.
I think he's quite an old bear and he's already seen life quite a lot
and I understand from his owner he is in fact fifteen years old
so he has lived in the family for a long time
I would have thought he was great fun to have in a family
and that he's seen it all and he knows it all.
Now I've got another one here and this one actually I'm informed
has signals from the interior.
[BEAR MAKES GROWLING NOISE]
[LAUGHTER]
[BEAR MAKES GROWLING NOISE]
[LAUGHTER]
[BEAR MAKES GROWLING NOISE]
I think it's just as well that the ones which I've been measuring on some of you
have had not to be elicited by quite such a complicated method
[LAUGHTER]
Now he seems to me to be different sort of bear at all
I think he likes his gin
[LAUGHTER]
And I can just just imagine him going along to the local,
and with one foot up on the bar holding forth on his experiences
when he was in India to all the other admiring bears.
[LAUGHTER]
And this is my last one, perhaps here, I'll have this one here.
Now he looks to me really like rather a stubborn bear.
I would hate to change his mind about anything.
Stubborn and maybe narrow-minded too.
But I would have thought because of his stubbornness
and steadfastness, he could be great comfort to a child
was perhaps a little frightened of the dark,
and wanted somebody stout and steadfast to keep company with.
Now just for small fee, I would do character analysis on any teddy bears
[LAUGHTER]
which might be submitted to me.