A Mail Order Hypnotist (1912)

Directed by

Chauncy D. Herbert

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man uses hypnosis through the mail to try to control someone. The story follows the consequences of that attempt.

melodramaticold-fashionedstraightforwardstaticlight dramashortplot-drivenearly cinema

What happens

A Mail Order Hypnotist is a 1912 American silent film drama produced by Chauncey D. Herbert. The film stars Adrienne Kroell and Thomas Flynn. The film was distributed by the General Film Company and released together with The Los Angeles Police Department or The LAPD. The film status is uncertain but a release flier survives which is now at the Margaret Herrick Library at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. The split reel measured around 800 feet (225 m). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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