Hans Richter, ironing a shirt in his studio, where the seven sequences of Dreams That Money Can Buy (1943) was filmed. Image taken from the life magazine, 1946, December 2 issue:
"Producer of Dreams is Hans Richter, a painter and well-known figure in avant-garde artistic circles. Last year he introduced five surrealistic friends to dream up separate sequences which could be combined in a full-lenght movie. The contributors are Painters Max Ernst and Fernand Legerer, Photographer Man Ray, Sculptor Alexander Calder and Marcel Duchamp, painter of Nude Descending a Staircase, who forsook art for chess in 1921. To their ideas Richter added one of his own and then proceeded to film them all in Cinecolor.
"Producer of Dreams is Hans Richter, a painter and well-known figure in avant-garde artistic circles. Last year he introduced five surrealistic friends to dream up separate sequences which could be combined in a full-lenght movie. The contributors are Painters Max Ernst and Fernand Legerer, Photographer Man Ray, Sculptor Alexander Calder and Marcel Duchamp, painter of Nude Descending a Staircase, who forsook art for chess in 1921. To their ideas Richter added one of his own and then proceeded to film them all in Cinecolor.
His studio was the back room of an old New York house. There, in a spac hardly large enough to park a car, Richter staged mob scenes, chases and dizzy falls, did his laundry and cooked lunch. For financial backing, he secured the assistance of Peggy Guggenheim, a copper heiress and art patron with openly Bohemian leanings. Dream s coct only $15,000 to make."
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| Man Ray, Le Cadeau, 1921 |
Marcel Duchamp's sequence (Discs) with the original soundtrack by John Cage:
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