The Miser's Doom
1899 British film
- 1899 (1899)
The Miser's Doom is an 1899 British short film directed by Walter R. Booth. The film seems to be a lost film.
Plot
A miser is haunted by the ghost of one of his deceased victims, causing him to die of shock.
Production
The Miser's Doom was the directing debut of Walter R. Booth, a magician who had begun working with filmmaker R. W. Paul.[1]
Legacy
The Miser's Doom is one of the earliest films featuring a ghost, although previous examples had been produced by Georges Méliès and George Albert Smith the previous year.[2]
See also
External links
- The Miser's Doom at IMDb
References
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Filmography of Walter R. Booth
- The Miser's Doom
- Upside Down; or, the Human Flies
- A Railway Collision
- Artistic Creation
- Cheese Mites, or Lilliputians in a London Restaurant
- The Haunted Curiosity Shop
- The Magic Sword
- An Over-Incubated Baby
- Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost
- Undressing Extraordinary
- The Waif and the Wizard
- The Extraordinary Waiter
- An Extraordinary Cab Accident
- The '?' Motorist
- Is Spiritualism a Fraud?
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