Showing movies of successful shots before games may help a basketball team's moting percentage, according to a paper written by varsity forward Bob Bramhall. First winter Bramhall conducted an experiment with the Crimson team for his cial Relations 148 course by showing pictures of successful shots just before the had went out on the floor to play.

Bramhall first showed the movies before the Boston University game here on February 3. In the 11 games that followed, the team put in 32.2 percent of its shots. Before the first showing, the team's average percentage was 27.4. Thus, the team Unitely shot better in the half of the Jason which followed the first showing the films.

This finding seems contradicted by the fact that during the second half of the season, Bramhall did not show the picture before three home games--Dartmouth Princeton, and Yale--and the percentages in these games were considerably higher than those for the games when the film was exhibited.

This apparent contradiction may be explained, Bramhall suggests, by carry-over . Bramhall believes that he main of the films lay in making the more conscious of their shooting. the movies were not shown, the were very aware of this, and so end-result was that they thought but their shooting just the same.

Bramhall's original motive in showing pictures of themselves making was his belief that this would confidence, but he has not been able make any conclusions as to this in paper, submitted last week for Social 148 (Group Dynamics).

He does write, however, "This experiment proved that particular attention to a certain aspect of a person's tends to make him conscious of activity and causes him to be more in developing more efficient of performing that activity."

breakdown of individual statistics that players who are "form" improved more after the movies those who usually scored by driving right under the basket.

connection with the movies, Bramhall interviewed the six of his teammates the most playing time. Four of the that they believe a pre-game is a necessity.

another question three players that among the factors that affect during a game is the size of the . Two mentioned referees as a factor, and one believed the of the Band influenced his play, .

As for the film itself, one player said it gave him much more confidence; said it aided his confidence a a third was relaxed by the movie; the other three felt it had little upon their performances.