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The Haunted Curiosity Shop

19012 minUnited Kingdom
Horror

Synopsis

An elderly dealer's curiosity shop becomes a place of disturbing apparitions. Objects and figures no longer behave as expected, leaving the shopkeeper surrounded by surprises within his own familiar premises.

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Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
1:55
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Walter R. Booth · Public domain

DirectorsWalter R. Booth

Behind the scenes

Walter R. Booth and Robert W. Paul use the shop as a compact display space for cinematic tricks. The crowded setting lets ordinary curiosities become the material of a supernatural spectacle.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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