About this series
Documentation of The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society from 1926 and 1934. All ten films on a single 40-minute reel.
All films — in order
1
The Abandoned Ark
(Fictional history)
A film by Stella Weiss (1962) 16mm silent
2
The Society Documents Itself
(Fictional history):
Years: 1926,1927,1934
Filmmakers: not known
Transfer note: copied at 18 frames per second from a 16mm black and white Kodak safely film original.
Running time: 5 minutes 28 seconds
Silent
3
The Bear Dream
(Fictional history):
This film was made by in 1937 Arthur Rosenzweig, a member of the Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society. Here he recreates one of his dreams on film and analyzes it according to Freud's theories.
4
The Midget Crane
(Fictional history):
Year: 1926
Filmmaker: Albert Grass
Transfer note: copied at 18 frames per second from a 16mm black and white Kodak safely film original.
Running time: 2 minutes 41 seconds
Silent
5
The Lion Dream
Teddy Weisengrund, a member of the Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society, recreates one of his dreams on film and analyzes it according to Freud's theories.
6
The Praying Mantis
(Fictional history):
Year: 1931
Filmmaker: Charmian de Forde
Music: Duke Ellington, "Mooche", "Black and Tan"
Transfer note: copied at 24 frames per second from a 16mm black and white Kodak print with variable density optical sound track.
Running time: 6 minutes 22 seconds
7
Chasing Louis Schnekowitz
(Fictional history):
Year: 1945
Filmmaker: Molly Lippman
Transfer note: copied at 18 frames per second from a Regular 8mm black and white Kodak film, and Regular 8mm Kodachrome original.
Running time: 3 minutes 46 seconds
Silent
8
The Lonely Chicken Dream
(Fictional history):
Year: 1954
Filmmaker: Beverly d'Angelo
Transfer note: copied at 24 frames per second from a 16mm Kodachrome original with magnetic stripped sound.
Sound: from the album "Wild Percussion and Horns A'Plenty" Dick Schory's New Percussion Ensemble
Running time: 3 minutes 5 seconds
9
My Dream of Dental Irritation
(Fictional history):
Year : 1964
Filmmaker: Robert Troutman "Bobby Beaujolais"
Transfer note: copied at 18 frames per second from an 8mm Kodachrome camera original with magnetic stripped sound.
Music: "The Man that Got Away" and "Somewhere over the Rainbow" sung by Judy Garland on the album, "Judy at Carnegie Hall"
Running time: 5 minutes 10 seconds
10
The Bobsled
(Fictional history)
A film by Eddie Kammerer (1972), 16mm sound