Fresh from one (of many) of Professor Kinema's rusty old standup file cabinets comes this Motion Picture Herald promo article for Percepto and The Tingler (1959). The Professor also sends along this snapshot, taken during a trip to Forrest J. Ackerman's abode. In it you can see most of the original Tingler prop, along with a few other items you may be well familiar with. One misconception about Percepto is that it delivered electrical shocks to patrons at a key scene during the movie. Ah contraire, my fellow deadites. Not even William Castle was that crazy. Percepto used a buzzing vibration to scare the audience. One problem was that kids got wise and started trying to add the device to their pirate treasure, so I'm sure many theater owners had their hands full keeping the little monsters at bay.