The Medium Exposed? Or, a Modern Spiritualistic Séance (1906) | BFI

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    This ingenious six-minute saga sees a group of affluent suburban Spiritualists take revenge on a phoney medium after his elaborate 'séance' goes awry. It's likely the special effects, such as the lowering of the light and the disembodied ghost, were the work of early trick film pioneer W.R. Booth.
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Комментарии • 23

  • @bonniebella5905
    @bonniebella5905 10 лет назад +2

    that was so cool, amazing special effects for nearly a hundred and ten years ago. I loved the ghost hands and face. so clever!

  • @TheatreGirl_Vintage
    @TheatreGirl_Vintage 9 месяцев назад

    The social norms being displayed through this piece are pretty wild. So cool to have still!

  • @johnwilliamgrant4362
    @johnwilliamgrant4362 10 лет назад +3

    Absolutely hilarious! I wonder though if there are any archival records of real spiritualistic seances on yt...

    • @ORIGINOLINDIVIDUAL
      @ORIGINOLINDIVIDUAL 4 года назад

      They was all done in darkness so they couldn't be recorded

    • @younesmohssen8158
      @younesmohssen8158 2 года назад +1

      It doesn’t exist because it’s not reql

    • @daveausamerika5408
      @daveausamerika5408 Год назад

      ​@@younesmohssen8158whether or not seances were "real" ie actually talking with ghosts, spiritualist mediums absolutely held seances where the spirits would "manifest" by way of parlor tricks - that could be caught on camera, were it not always dark in the seance room of course, to hide the assistants operating the special effects. but to dismiss the historic truth that seances were performed with "it's not real" is to ignore the truth.

  • @megatimescapes1654
    @megatimescapes1654 10 лет назад

    Great video!

  • @Cabronosidad
    @Cabronosidad 10 лет назад

    3.30. Love the way the lady just happens to have a hammer and nails on her person.

  • @buckreeder
    @buckreeder 10 лет назад +1

    I wonder where this was filmed?

    • @user-hb9hi8np1f
      @user-hb9hi8np1f 4 года назад

      it says 1906 :) so like 100 years ago lmaoo

    • @buckreeder
      @buckreeder 3 года назад +7

      @@user-hb9hi8np1f "where" not "when"

    • @nintendy
      @nintendy Месяц назад

      It was filmed at my Great Grandparents house which I still own and live in!

  • @Muhammad-1989
    @Muhammad-1989 Год назад

    יאמי

  • @hirundine
    @hirundine 11 лет назад

    Hilarious! One minute, 2 men carry the charlatan plus divan quite easily. the nest 3 men huffing and puffing carry him onto a hand cart.

    • @hirundine
      @hirundine 11 лет назад

      The next, not nest ....

  • @bizzjoe
    @bizzjoe 11 лет назад +2

    I have no comment at this time.. please leave your name and address, and I will write to you in four years time.. terms & conditions apply.

    • @marklilly386
      @marklilly386 4 года назад +1

      Que sucedió?.

    • @user-hb9hi8np1f
      @user-hb9hi8np1f 4 года назад +1

      6 years later lmao

    • @bizzjoe
      @bizzjoe 4 года назад

      @@user-hb9hi8np1f .. Did you get my letter?