Fwd: HW: Orgone Accumulators and the Reich file (long)

[Paul Mather]

On Mon, 19 Jul 1999 DASLUD at AOL.COM wrote:

=> i forwarded the long piece on reich to a friend of mine, science-fiction
=> writer lawrence watt-evans;  here's his response...
=>
=> From: Lawrence Watt-Evans <lawrence at clark.net>
=> To: DASLUD at aol.com
=> Subject: Re: Fwd: HW: Orgone Accumulators and the Reich file (long)

=> There's a truly bizarre movie made by a semi-serious Yugoslav
=> Reichian about thirty years ago that you might want to look for --
=> "W.R.: Mysteries of the Orgasm."  Sometimes retitled "Mysteries of
=> the Organism."  It's this weird tangle of documentary about Reich
=> and a story about an ice skater who becomes involved with orgone
=> accumulation.

I've seen this film, creatively edited (to cover over the naughty bits:)
when it was aired as part of Channel 4's "Banned" season aeons ago.  It
even includes authentic footage of the Plaster Casters "in action."
(There is also some footage of Orgonon, including a brief glimpse of a
cloudbuster.)

As for the "dramatic sub-plot," all I remember is a trio, in some kind
of communist country, who appear to have sex a lot.  Was one of them an
ice skater? ;-)

Cheers,

Paul.

NP: Hawkwind, _Space Ritual_

e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu

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