The Cavalier's Dream (1898)

Directed by

Edwin Stanton Porter

Genre

short film, silent film, horror film

Country

United States

Runtime

1 min

Rating

4.4 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A silent short horror film from 1898. It was made by a small company on a Manhattan rooftop and uses trick photography.

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What happens

The Cavalier's Dream is an 1898 American silent horror trick film. This Edison-Vitagraph short was not widely circulated in its time, but was preserved for the Library of Congress in 1958. In 2017, the Library scanned the 16mm film and the 2K file was published on the Internet Archive. According to Charles Musser, the film was "likely shot (in September or October) by Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton in the Manhattan rooftop studio of their new American Vitagraph company, then an Edison licensee." The work is sometimes mistakenly credited to director Edwin S. Porter. But Porter made his earliest films for the Edison studio in 1901. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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