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The Sealed Room

190911 minUnited States
HorrorDrama

Synopsis

A king builds a private chamber for himself and his lover, then discovers that she uses it to meet a court musician. His response turns a room designed for intimacy into a trap with no escape.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
11:21
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · D.W. Griffith · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsD. W. Griffith

Inspirations

The story draws on the enclosed-room horrors of Balzac's La Grande Bretêche and Poe's The Cask of Amontillado. Biograph originally released it on a shared reel with a much lighter comedy.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Photograph credit

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  • Arthur V. Johnson — Unknown author Unknown author; Filmland favorites; being the autographed photographs with biographical sketches of the leading photo play stars (1915). Book available online at: https://archive.org/details/filmlandfavorite00losa · Public domain
  • Marion Leonard — Unknown author Unknown author; Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/movinwor14chal/page/n993 . Digitalized version of The Moving Picture World , vol. 14, no. 10, Dezember 7th, 1912, p988 · Public domain
  • Henry B. Walthall — Tower Magazines, Inc., photographer unknown · Public domain
  • Mary Pickford — Rufus Porter Moody · Public domain
  • Mack Sennett — Author/source credit not supplied in Commons metadata; file page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MackSennett1910.jpg · Public domain

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