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Identifier:

  • 3944 (Source: East Anglian Film Archive)

Date produced: 1934

Filmmaker(s):

Stanley Comber

Country of Production:

United Kingdom

Languages:

English

Duration:

00:08:00

Format:

8mm

Colour:

B&W

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

Institute of Amateur Cinematographers Ten Best winner, 1936.

Description:

Visitors at a party receive a message from beyond that informs them, "There is a devil here!" and chaos follows. ‘Just before he died, the photographer of this film, Jack O' Hea, saw an article by Tony Rose, FACI, about the very first year of the Ten Best Competition and so this 'lost' film was rediscovered. It was made in 1934, just two years after Kodak had introduced the 8mm gauge. Music and 'devilish sound effects' were added by Jack O'Hea in 1978. These were revised and re-tracked for the IAC Library by the late Leslie Germany, FACI. The story, by John Burke, relates how the visitors at the Blackmores' party (one of whom is played by the director, Stanley Comber) receive a spirit-message that: 'There is a devil here!'. They link hands round the table and the hostess is attacked’ (EAFA Database).

Resources:

IAC Hire Catalogue Volume 2: Super 8 Third Edition. Institute of Amateur Cinematographers, 1992.
This film is part of the Institute of Amateur Cinematographers Collection held by the East Anglian Film Archive, Norwich, UK.

"Just before he died, the photographer of this film, Jack O' Hea, saw an article by Tony Rose, FACI, about the very first year of the Ten Best Competition and so this 'lost' film was rediscovered. It was made in 1934, just two years after Kodak had introduced the 8mm gauge. Music and 'devilish sound effects' were added by Jack O'Hea in 1978. These were revised and re-tracked for the IAC Library by the late Leslie Germany, FACI." (EAFA Database)

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Institute of Amateur Cinematographers Collection, East Anglian Film Archive