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Title: INSANE

Reference number: 1640

Date: 1955

Director: filmed by D Jenkins

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 4.07 mins

Description: A psychoanalyst sets his patient a test, providing a variety of card shapes, prompting associations that reveal the uneasy thoughts of his subject.

One of a series of films made during an exercise in production at a week-end school for film-makers organised by the Scottish Association for Amateur Cinematographers. Shot at Crieff Hydro.

Credits: The Pearce Institute Cine Club presents

cast Iain Dunnachie
cast Robert McLeish
cast Mary McLeish
sc. Robert McLeish
ph. William Finlayson
ph. Peter McLeish
lighting C. Atkinson
continuity J McGarry

Shotlist: Credits (0.25); Psychoanalyst lays out a variety of card shapes on a table before his patient; c/u face of patient; a stopwatch is started; c/u triangular shape; montage of images that echo the shape, including intersecting tramlines, pyramids, gasmasks (1.08) patients picks up another; montage of images representing oblong shapes, ship, flagstones etc.; c/u stopclock (1.46) another shape provokes images of trees, a soldier holding up his hands; other shapes inspire musical instruments, female shapes (2.44) montage of neon signs such as British Railways' Central Station; shots of woman in coffin and handcuffs intercut with the end of the patient's interview; the patient emerges from the interview room; c/u card shape in palm (3.55) The End (4.07)