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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1298

The House of Ghosts

19076 minFrance Spain

Synopsis

Three travellers take shelter in a woodland house where ordinary objects refuse to behave. Vanishing furniture, moving food and a violently unstable room turn their refuge into a place from which they urgently want to escape.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 5:55
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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

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No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Segundo de Chomón · Public domain

DirectorsSegundo de Chomón

Behind the scenes

Segundo de Chomón uses stop-motion animation to give household objects a life of their own. The short is an early example of the haunted house as a setting for cinema's visual tricks.

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