The Haunted Hotel

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The Haunted Hotel is a pioneering 1907 stop-motion and live-action short film directed by J. Stuart Blackton, renowned for its innovative special effects and early influence on cinematic animation.

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instanceOf American film
black-and-white film
fantasy film
horror film
live-action film
short film
silent film
stop-motion film
colorProcess black-and-white
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director J. Stuart Blackton NERFINISHED
distributor Vitagraph Company of America NERFINISHED
era early cinema
featuresCharacterType supernatural entities
traveler
filmFormat 35 mm
filmingLocation Brooklyn, New York NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeTitle Haunted Hotel NERFINISHED
hasCreativeContributor J. Stuart Blackton NERFINISHED
hasGenre comedy
fantasy
horror
silent film
hasMovement trick film tradition
hasSetting haunted hotel
hasTitleLanguage English
historicalSignificance considered a landmark in special effects filmmaking
helped popularize stop-motion techniques in narrative film
includedIn early animation retrospectives
influenced Georges Méliès–style trick films reception in the United States
early cinematic animation
isPartOf silent era of American cinema
notableFor combination of live action and animation
early use of stop-motion animation in cinema
innovative special effects
originalLanguage none (silent film)
preservationStatus survives in film archives
productionCompany Vitagraph Company of America NERFINISHED
releaseDate 1907-02-16
releaseYear 1907
runtimeMinutes 6
usesTechnique in-camera effects
stop-motion animation
substitution splices
trick photography

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J. Stuart Blackton notableWork The Haunted Hotel