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Eudora Fletcher arranges
to keep a filmed record...
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of the proceedings.
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For this, she contacts
her first cousin Paul Deghuee...
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an inventor
and part-time photographer.
:31:15
She said, "I want to make
a record of this case...
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"for future generations
and the world of science.
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"I want you to keep
the camera very quiet."
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I said, "Why not just
take notes and write it up?"
:31:30
She said, "Paul, when a man...
:31:32
"changes his physical
appearance, you want to see it.
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"You can't read about it.
:31:38
"Besides which,
I am planning to make history."
:31:40
The white room
is carefully arranged...
:31:43
for maximum serenity.
:31:45
It is a small study
in Dr. Fletcher's house...
:31:49
sparsely furnished.
:31:51
Clumsy photographic lights
are nailed to the wall...
:31:55
to provide
sufficient illumination.
:31:59
Microphones are hidden
in specially selected places.
:32:02
The camera shoots
through a pane of glass...
:32:06
which renders it
relatively unobtrusive.
:32:08
The noise of the motor
is a problem.
:32:11
This is muffled with a blanket
and anything else handy.
:32:15
From this cramped
vantage point...
:32:17
photographer Paul Deghuee
will record...
:32:19
the famous
White Room Sessions--
:32:21
a remarkable document
in the history of psychotherapy.
:32:26
By today's standards...
:32:27
the White Room Sessions
would seem very primitive...
:32:31
and yet they were
really quite effective...
:32:35
in developing a very strong
personal relation...
:32:39
between doctor and patient.
:32:41
The question whether
Zelig was a psychotic...
:32:44
or merely extremely neurotic...
:32:47
was a question
that was endlessly discussed...
:32:51
among us doctors.
:32:53
I myself felt that
his feelings were really...
:32:58
not all that different
from the normal...