Dream

Date1972 – 1973

Can DescriptionsTitle on film: 'Dream.'

Viewing NotesA paper sign title card: ‘DREAM’. An upside-down shot of a woman. A bass plays. Backdrop: ‘1620 vs. 1920’. Close up of an embossed cover of the ‘Holy Bible’. First page: ‘Directors Jane Morrison, Everett Foster’. Second page: ‘Cameramen Bon Picard, Mike Bedmond’. Third page: ‘Cast Linda Harland, Barb Hogerty, Bob Baird, Mark Cote, Tim Hall, Laura Gabriel, Barbarba Blais, Frank Kimball, Hillary Shaw, Kathy Sprague, Robert Everette, Sally Boggs, Debbie Johnson, Richard Jones, Cynthia Lewis, Bonnie Moreau, Liz Marois, Cindy Nichols, Kathy Boque, Helen Omch(obscured)’. Music plays as a line of people walk up a lawn. They walk towards the Maine State House (Augusta, Maine). A man reads from the book and preaches from the steps in voice over. He pauses when he hears jazz music playing. He walks away, and the crowd follows him, saying “repent”. They brandish pitchforks at people dancing in a courtyard. The crowd dancing down a dirt road. Frolicking. Conflict between dancers and pitchfork wielders. Camera trick used to make a dancer disappear and re-appear behind a man with a pitchfork. Dancer gets “stabbed” with a pitchfork. More fighting. The preacher is hit over the head. A woman is strangled with a necklace. They dance around a fallen man with a top hat, and then dance away. ‘Rock of ages’ plays as they slow to a walk. They kneel in a circle as a man reads from the book. The ‘Holy Bible’ opens to the page: ‘The End’. [End of Reel]

OtherPreservation answer print made from Super 8 archival master funded by 2007 Women's Film Preservation Fund grant. Lab work done by Brodsky and Treadway, Chace and Cineric. Work completed in 2009.