{"id":6161,"date":"2011-02-02T14:02:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T22:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=6161"},"modified":"2011-02-02T14:03:11","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T22:03:11","slug":"tribune-american-dream-picture-1924-surrealist-film-contest-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2011\/02\/02\/tribune-american-dream-picture-1924-surrealist-film-contest-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribune-American Dream Picture &#8211; 1924 Surrealist Film Contest Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/F1y5uMuuwkk?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/F1y5uMuuwkk?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>In 1924, the Oakland Tribune and American Theatre held a contest in which people submitted their dreams.  The winning dreams got made into films and the dreamers won $25.  This surreal piece came from a dream submitted by Mrs. L.L. Nicholson.  It more closely resembles a dream than many films since then, including Hitchcock&#8217;s <em>Spellbound<\/em>.\u00a0 It involves a couple on a trip and a missing baby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1924, the Oakland Tribune and American Theatre held a contest in which people submitted their dreams. The winning dreams got made into films and the dreamers won $25. This surreal piece came from a dream submitted by Mrs. L.L. Nicholson. It more closely resembles a dream than many films since then, including Hitchcock&#8217;s Spellbound.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,1458,1639],"tags":[2531,68,2517,218,608,2522],"class_list":["post-6161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-short-films","category-silent-film-2","tag-1920s","tag-contest","tag-dream","tag-newspaper","tag-silent-film","tag-surrealism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6161"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6424,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6161\/revisions\/6424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}