The haunted house of the professor
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| Original title | The haunted house of the professor |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1914 |
| length | 58 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Joe May |
| script | Ernst Reicher |
| production | Continental art film, Berlin |
| camera | Max Fassbender |
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The Spook in the Professor's House , sometimes also referred to as Der Geisterspuk im Haus des Professors and Der Spuk , is a German detective film from 1914 in the Stuart Webbs film series .
action
The respected Professor Warming is as desperate as he is perplexed: his house is haunted! He therefore asks Stuart Webbs to help him get to the bottom of the strange ghostly apparitions. Webbs finds out that behind the noises coming from the house wall, there is a gang of gangsters. When he tries to track them down, he is initially overwhelmed and tied up. Of course, Stuart Webbs can soon free himself again and is now trying to put things down.
Because this gang is after secret military plans and tries to constantly break into the professor's office. In fact, these plans are stolen, retrieved by Webbs, and then stolen again. In order to finally arrest the crooks, Webbs installs cameras with electronic triggers and flashing devices in the professorial office, with which the tireless thieves are to be caught in the act.
Production notes
Was filmed The ghost in the house of the professor , the third film in this series, in the spring of 1914 recorded in Berlin Continental film studio in Chausseestraße 123. The same company also for the production responsible. The haunted house of the professor has a length of three acts at 1058 meters, which corresponds to a playing time of approx. 58 minutes. After the film was censored on May 1, 1914, the premiere took place in the same month in Berlin's Tauentzien Palace. In November 1914, the film was shown in the United States under the programmatic title Trapped by the Camera .
Unusually for a Stuart Webbs film, this production didn't have a single female role.
Web links
- The Spooky house of the professor in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The haunted house of the professor at The German Early Cinema Database
- The haunted house of the professor at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Film length calculator , frame rate : 16 2/3