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...Council received the report last week from Melvin Richter 3G' and commended it highly. Richter, who was president of the group in 1947-48, has been working on the study for two years...
...years ago a group of prominent modern artists living in New York decided to pool their talents into the making of a motion picture. One of them, Hans Richter, devised for it a story-frame on which several dream sequences could be hung, each to be the responsibility of a different artist. The result was a movie called "Dreams That Money Can Buy," which proved so popular at its private showings that it has now been nationally released...
There is also a sequence by Mareel Duchamp derived from his eubistic painting "Nude Descending the Stairway," and Alexander Calder and Dave Diamond have a hand in other portions. The dream I found most interesting, if only for its simple, washroom symbolism, was Mr. Richter's "Nareissus" though to identify oneself with any particular dream is dangerously revealing, I suppose...
...Dreams That Money Can Buy" is a very unusual film and a successful motion-picture experiment on a relatively "home-made" basis. Perhaps other artists of this caliber will now turn towards the cinema and exploit some of its possibilities after witnessing this independent achievement. Mr. Richter's "Dreams That Money Can Buy" should delight anyone with even a smattering of Household Freud...
Rudolph C. Richter, of 640 Huntington Avenue, Boston, and a graduate of the Huntington School...