The Haunted House 1908

The Haunted House, silent film from 1908. Directed by Segundo de Chomón. Impressive use of stop motion tricks for era.

Segundo Víctor Aurelio Chomón y Ruiz (17 October 1871 in Teruel - 2 May 1929) was a pioneering Spanish film director. He produced many short films in France while working for Pathé Frères and has been compared to Georges Méliès, due to his frequent camera tricks and optical illusions.

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• The Haunted House 1908
• The Haunted House
• silent film
• spanish silent film
• Segundo de Chomon
• early silent film
• early stop motion
• early film effects
• early film tricks
• early cinema
• short
• ghost
• drama
• animation

[Lovemy78s]

Must have been pretty innovative for the time, still fun to watch!

[silentfilmhouse]

@Lovemy78s Yes it is incredible to know how far back it was and for them to be able to do it.

[mujawooja]

This was very well made the stop motion and effects are awesome

bernie

[silentfilmhouse]

@mujawooja Yes I find it a great example of his work.

[grokk1000]

SCARY!!!!!!!!

[silentfilmhouse]

@grokk1000 at the time it could be, I find it more funny these days :) but they did a great job for the period especially with the stop motion on the table

[ryumishima44]

The stopmotion rulez.... cant imagine how many hours they tried to get the perfect timing-

thanks for sharing pal

[Ivanatis]

wow scary ending

[ljohank]

Thank you for the upload!

[ziggycat999]

'Dutch Comedian' makeup...precedes vaudeville,popular then.Rare to see it on film.....classic!

[mrrandomutubeaccoun1]

00:31 was autistic house time!

[zombi3killa3]

I bet this was scary in them days!...

[nextproject90]

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[Alaska1925]

4:14 hahaha that was so hilarius!!! after all that work!!!