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Identifier:

  • 2683 (Source: East Anglian Film Archive)

Date produced: 1928

Filmmaker(s):

J.H. Ahern

E. M. Heimann

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Country of Production:

United Kingdom

Languages:

English

Duration:

00:14:00

Length:

360 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

B&W

Sound Notes:

Silent

Description:

"Drama based on H. G. Wells' story 'The Red Room' recounting how a guest mentions he has heard one of the house's rooms is haunted and that the last person to sleep in there was found dead with no explanation. The guest asks to spends a night in the haunted room seeing it as a challenge. He is provided with a large number of candles but will they be enough. When he is visited by a ghostly apparition determined to blow his candles out he tries to escape." (EAFA Database)

Resources:

IAC Film Library Catalogue (Silent and Sound). Institute of Amateur Cinematographers, 1975.
This film is part of the Institute of Amateur Cinematographers Collection held by the East Anglian Film Archive, Norwich, UK.

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Institute of Amateur Cinematographers Collection, East Anglian Film Archive