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Ghosts - melodrama movie film screenshot

Ghosts - melodrama movie film screenshot

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A tragedy in which the sins of a father are visited upon his children as revealed in the story of a young man who unknowingly falls in love with his half-sister. When the family doctor, who knows of the father's sordid past, stops the wedding, the son descends into alcoholism, madness and finally, suicide.
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Henry Walthall, Mary Alden, Loretta Blake, Juanita Archer, Al Filson.
Incomplete: according to card in M/B/RS Film & Television catalog, LC copies are incomplete at about 39 minutes long. Master pos pic also has scenes out of order.
Secondary sources give the original reel count as five reels, but do not give the original running time or footage. Grapevine Video online catalog gives the running time as 49 minutes.
A Majestic Master Picture; a Mutual Master Picture.
Based on the play, Ghosts, by Henrik Ibsen.
Sources used: American Film Institute catalog, feature films, 1911-1920, p. 319-320; Internet movie database WWW site, viewed December 2, 2015; Motography, June 5, 1915, p. 923-924 viewed online December 2, 2015 via the Internet Archive WWW site; Motion picture news, May 29, 1915, p. 67 viewed online December 2, 2015 via Media History Digital Archive; Grapevine Video online catalog, viewed December 2, 2015; Variety, June 11, 1916, p. 19 viewed online December 2, 2015 via Variety Archives WWW site.
16 mm dupe neg renumbered: FRA 7717-7718 to FSA 9584-9585.

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01/01/1915
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