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|desc=While Don and Claire are in a hypnotic state, the hypnotist suggests that they are the subjects of a neurosis at an unconscious level. After re-awakening, Don and Claire feel inner tension, worry, and guilt. These feelings are analyzed through a ques... | |desc=While Don and Claire are in a hypnotic state, the hypnotist suggests that they are the subjects of a neurosis at an unconscious level. After re-awakening, Don and Claire feel inner tension, worry, and guilt. These feelings are analyzed through a ques... | ||
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Revision as of 16:32, 7 December 2021
Unconscious motivation is a short film from 1949 released on 16mm. It is held by at least two archives, including IUL Moving Image Archive and Prelinger Archives.
While Don and Claire are in a hypnotic state, the hypnotist suggests that they are the subjects of a neurosis at an unconscious level. After re-awakening, Don and Claire feel inner tension, worry, and guilt. These feelings are analyzed through a ques...
Unconscious motivation | |
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Release date | 1949 |
Running time | 0:39:22 |
Language | English |
More Details
- internal id
- 71107
- Summary
- While Don and Claire are in a hypnotic state, the hypnotist suggests that they are the subjects of a neurosis at an unconscious level. After re-awakening, Don and Claire feel inner tension, worry, and guilt. These feelings are analyzed through a questioning process;interpretation of symbolic dreams;and responses to the Rorschach inkblot, thermatic apperception, and word-association tests. With the understanding they gain from these tests, Don and Claire feel free of the guilt and anxiety they have had.
- Physical Format
- 1 Film (0:39:22)
- 16mm
- IUL Genres
- Educational
- Medical
- IUL Subject
- Counseling, Methodology
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
- Motivation (Psychology).
- Full Original Title
- Unconscious motivation
shot list
1950s psychology experiment where young man and woman in their mid-twenties early thirties are hypnotized. Hypnotist narrates film from within space of film but always unseen, outside of frame. Great variety of facial expressions on both young man and woman: happy, sad, nervous, anxious, confused, uncomfortable, pensive. Expressive body language, gesticulations. Countless terrific sound-bites.
17:01:46:01 Young man in twenties or early thirties in v-neck sweater and woman of same age (couple ?); woman has hand on chin, both sit at table opposite Hypnotist. Great facial expressions on couple: confusion, discomfort, awkward laughter. Great sound-bites. �Don, do you know what the prearranged signal is?� Shaking head �I don�t know what you�re talking about� �Claire, do you know what the signal is?� With skepticism �Signal for what?� �Well a few moments ago you were hypnotized and told that shortly after awakening you would be given a signal which would put you back to sleep again. Now do you remember�You are awake aren�t you?� The woman replies �Yes�� and man finishing her sentence �I think so.�
17:02:43:03 Young man and woman seated at table, audio track �Watch this,� cut to CU tiny wind-up toy monkey with comb and mirror twirling tail while dancing on table beside open book.
17:02:47:03 Man and woman shaking head �no� giggling and laughing uncomfortably.
17:02:50:25 CU hand shutting open book on table beside wind-up toy monkey. MS man and woman confused then slowly falling asleep in their chairs.
17:03:57:23 Man and woman asleep at table. Audio: �Don are you fast asleep?� Don Mutters in semi-sleep state, �Yes.�
17:05:44:00 VS man and woman asleep in chairs seated at table slowly waking up as the hypnotist counts to five. Hypnotist says: �Now I shall awaken you. One, Two , Three, you are beginning to awaken more and more, four, and five. You are wide awake. Hello. How long have you been asleep?� Great shots of man and woman looking anxious, bothered, nervous, confused, pensive, fidgety, tense. Man biting nails and rubbing his hands together.
17:07:46:21 Distraught woman sitting beside anxious man says: �I just don�t feel good, I just, I don�t, I feel like I should be doing something, or, or I�ve done something, or what have you, what ever it was, it was wrong, or is wrong, or will be wrong, and I don�t know what to do about it.�
17:08:46:00 Voice of out of frame Hypnotist �Do you feel like there is some inner tension?� Man and woman leaning on table. Woman responds �Yes.� Man �Definitely with me.� Both look concerned, confused, unsettled. Hypnotist �But you don�t know what�s causing it?� Both man and woman shake heads �No.�
17:09:00:29 Hypnotist out of frame �Well lets see what this causes you to do.� Taps on table several times.
17:12:17:00 Man speaking to disconcerted woman �Because it seemed silly. It just didn�t seem right for anyone to be trying to get away from something but stopping to pick up pebbles along the way.�
17:12:56:10 Hypnotist out of frame �Do you feel like you are trapped?� Woman answers �Well yes, in a way, in that I couldn�t get off the�the round disk.� Hypnotist �You just feel like you are going around and around and around.�
17:14:58:27 MS man beside woman opens book. CU first page in book Rorschach inkblot.
17:16:22:16 VS man and woman looking at inkblot. CU inkblot. MS man and woman. Woman describes the inkblot �But they�re crying. They�re crying so much. They are sad and they�re worried. They are crying because they�ve done something bad.�
17:16:58:23 MS man looking at inkblot in book says �Well now, to me, these two little black blots sort of look like the pebbles that I was picking up in my dream. And I would grab them in a hurry and stick them in my pocket, I was so afraid someone was going to see me picking up pebbles and laugh at me. Because be just don�t go around picking up pebbles. And they were just common pebbles too.�
177:17:50:27 Man and woman looking at Rorschach inkblot. Woman distressed and confused. Woman �That�s like a�skull or something.� Man �That�s strange you look at the outside of the blot, and I looked at the inside.� Woman �The inside doesn�t mean anything to me except that it�s read and has two eyes that shine, like um�like some sort of fish, deep down. But these two eyes shine on the fish�These are two death masks.�
17:20:07:26 CU photograph printed in book of two men on opposite end of a table, one standing one sitting.
17:23:29:08 Hypnotist calls out words and woman and man respond to with one word answers. Hypnotist �Window� Man �Open� Hypnotist �Grass� Woman �Park� Hypnotist �Candy� Man �Stick� Hypnotist �Money� Woman �Shiny� Hypnotist �Desk� Man �School� Hypnotist �Mother� Woman �Kind� Hypnotist �Steal� Man �Money� Hypnotist �Paper� Woman �Blow� Hypnotist �School� Man �House� Hypnotist �Park� Woman giggling �I can�t think of a word� Word associations continue on�
17:36:29:34 Man says �I was sorry that I had done it, but at the time that I, that I did, I felt compelled to do it. But I knew it was wrong, and that�s it, I know it is, that�s it right there, sure. Don�t you feel that it is? Well sure it is. That�s it.
17:39:32:00 Hypnotist out of frame speaking to man and woman looking relieved �And you feel now that all the tension is gone.� Man �I feel just like I always did!� Hypnotist �Yes. And you feel that the conflict is resolved?� Man �Definitely.� Hypnotist �And that you are normal individuals?� Man and Woman �Yes� laughing with relief. Hypnotist in mysterious, strange, creepy intonation �Alright;� quick fade out.