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@@jeffmcdonald5901 I think you're overthinking it. People generally find older material like this to be creepy because they view the almost alien time period to be creepy in and of itself. No more, no less. Just people getting creeped out by "the olden days." As for Frankenstein, phantom, etc, that's largely your opinion. Most modern people do not find those characters to be particularly scary, they're basically pop culture these days. While Jack Pierce and Lon Chaney were masters of their craft, it would be daft to claim that no make-up artist since has been able to do a better job as there are scores of them I could name from Stan Winston to Rick Baker to Tom Savini.
@@GilbertSyndrome You could be right in the case of most people. But at least for me personally, I honestly feel that's why it does for me. So I am only assuming it's the same for others. I don't find the olden days creepy at all in and of themselves. But their scary stuff, even when done in a comedic fashion like this, fills me with the heebie jeebies. Frankenstein and Quasimodo and the Cheney's Phantom, for instance, on the other hand compared to Freddie Krueger or Predator - no comparison. Leatherface scared me when I was a kid because I hadn't seen much other modern scary characters because my parents wouldn't let me see such things. Somehow I did manage to see Leatherface somewhere once and he was scary. But I did have a lot of exposure to old scary movies because we had a channel that would show the old-time scary movies - often even from the silent years - late at night when my parents couldn't control what I watched. As I got older and saw more and more modern visions of scariness and I grew to find most of it laughable and even Leatherface still holds a twinge of creepiness in me only because I remember being creeped out by him once, but not anymore. But the old stuff? Scares the Bejebas out of me every time. I've even seen documentary footage of the History of Halloween and old black and white footage of kids before mass-produced costumes, when they had to be homemade and they nearly always fill me with dread far beyond what anything they come up with nowadays does. In credit to this film, I find even the "human" characters truly creepy because they're not truly human in appearance. They have creepy makeup on too. I do make an exception for Alien though. Alien has always kinda creeped me out. Probably because his features are kind of unique. All the other details of the modern scary characters seem to be amalgams of one another. This whole film I found hard to watch only because it creeped me out so bad, even though on a technical level it was amazing that they were able to pull off the effects they did so early on. I applaud the makers of this film. The only reason I couldn't watch it to the end was I just got too creeped out.
4 years later the italians released the absolute madness that is Dante's Inferno (1911) - to say the least, it's at least as impressive, terrifying and all around an unforgettable experience. would recommend!
@@capngrim it's a matte effect. They covered the portion of the lens with a black rectangle of paper or cloth where it lines up with the painting so the film isn't exposed there, shoot the actors (that's why the actors duck out of the way when the effect happens), then rewind the film and shoot another exposure with the opposite areas blacked out to not double-expose those areas. When the film is processed you get this effect
@@kingswing00 I don't know if it's the 4k upscaling but I don't think I've ever seen an in-camera matte effect look so amazing. The cut to the matte is obvious, but the witch looks huge and almost three-dimensional, like it's coming out of the frame. It rivals green screen effects to this day.
As a video editor, I tip my hat to the film editors of way back when before the advent of computers. Splicing clips together, adding special effects, working with manual film reels... boggles the mind how they'd manage. It's so simple in this day and age but back then... whew.
@@suddenlycrows back then the time you didn't know about anything including the processes? I wouldn't try to act like its daunting for them, let them speak for themselves about what was available at the time, which I assure you was far more advanced then you would think clearly.
I love that even though they've actually seen ghosts and their chairs disappear, they're still surprised at the sight of spoons stirring themselves in the cups.
"their faces are more disturbing than the house" your comment made me chuckle... i agree ...while i was watching it i was trying to imagine if the 1907 audience would feel the same or all of the effects just overwhelm them...
@@JAYO201 Stop motion (and very well done, by the way), compositing, probably some proto-rotoscoping... by the way, most of them are not special effects, but visual effects.
This type of film is based on the inventions of Georges Méliès, the godfather of stop motion or SFX. Méliès did this way before Chomón and even before Auguste Lumière. Méliès is the underrated master filmmaker.
It's funny you should mention that, at the time there was a big revival of interest in greek theater and a brand new large amount of interest in japanese theater. There was even a short lived art movement called Japonism that was influential at the time, even though it was around for less than 10 years.
yeah imo this has to be the first horror movie based on all the old ones before hand since this one imo was disturbing...a little funny but disturbing nonetheless.
This had a better plot than several modern movies that come to mind.... Pluto Nash.. The Mask 2... Rocky 5.. or was it 6? Which ever had Tommy Gunn in it!
The marvel movies will be unwatchable in 50 years , the CGI will look incredibly dated and awkward looking by then . In the long run practical effects will always win .
I've been having paranormal interactions before I even knew the alphabet or even knew it was abnormal to be happening. Now that I've bought the devices you see on like "Ghost Adventures" (the only non-hoax ghost show really), I myself have managed to record evidence. : )
that was absolutely marvelous. i think these early french filmmakers should be credited with creating "film expressionism." this was every bit as expressionistic as the german "the cabinet of dr. caligari" (1919) or "nosferatu" (1922). and to achieve these special effects took great imagination, skill and patience. one of my favorite filmmakers from this period is Georges Méliès. he did so many classic films. but aside from those, one of my favorites is about some poor dude getting ready for bed. he can't get undressed because every time he removes a piece of clothing its magically replaced by another piece. its really funny. the frustration theme in comedy is one still in common use today. thanks for the video. it was a real joy!
Really fun! It's great to see these old flicks and the innovative effects they used for the time, and colorization really brings the past back alive and vibrant. Movie magic!
The ghost was scarier, than a lot of modern day horror monsters with tons of CGI and cheap jump scares, I couldn’t help wondering what her “story” might be…
Wow, this is incredible! The music is well-chosen & the coloring is quite enchanting! (I added Foley sound effects to this classic treasure last Halloween as a fun little project, but the music creates just the right mood. Thanks for this! (bwt, fun fact : this short film was the inspiration for Babadook. )
Had all the modern B horror's characteristics. Haha. The house is obviously haunted but they won't leave it just keep carry on with their things.. Haha It was really good and entertaining. Thanks for the colours! :)
Films like this are a snap-shot into the past.. I love seeing these things from over a hundred years ago when cinema was ony just born and there was no real cinematic grammar (film language) so scenarios generally play out in 'master shots.' I imagine audiences would still have been thrilled, shocked, awed and even terrified when watching this in 1907... Excellent job on the clean up and colorization... great stuff.
It's just amazing what humans have accomplished over time. All the extra work and mechanics that went into film and the splicing of it is just phenomenal to see the history behind it and where film making is today; just the act and science behind recording is brilliant, I would have never been able to come up with something that does that 😂 and someone actually has which is remarkable...anyway..good stuff😊
Man how important is the music in this genre? It’s like a character unto itself. Love the chiaroscuro, the contrast between darkness and light, tragedy and comedy, fear and delight. Great art.
1907 was 100 years before 2007. Even 2007 already felt quite long ago. The ghost was creepy, but those 3 people looked creepy too. Were they wearing masks?
No it was their real faces 🤣 seriously you have to ask dumb questions was they wearing masks, what's next was the house real lol 100 years before 2007 I think someone got A+ in maths
@@daz69phillips and someone got an F in grammar. It’s were they wearing masks not was they wearing masks. Double check your comment for errors before mocking someone for asking legitimate questions
I remember back in 2007 seeing stop motion a lot like this by a guy named GiR2007 here on TH-cam, and the web was impressed with it. He did videos like "Pancakes" and "Addicted to TH-cam" and numerous others. Seeing a film from 1907 doing exactly the same things GiR2007 did 100 years later shows that the more things change, the more they stay the same. :)
Brilliant. Necessity is the mother of invention. I love the creativity, using simple tricks. Dodged lighting, transposed double+ negatives and crafted miniatures yield such warm effect. Thanks for posting.
“There are nightmare demon people in the paintings chairs teleport when you try to sit on them massive cloaked phantoms appear out of nowhere to terrorize us but listen, we paid good money to stay here, we’re not leaving.”
Fascinating to see that many of the tropes used in this early film are still in common use over 100 years later. The creativity and technical skills are groundbreaking. The early pioneers were creating a whole new vocabulary of film, the audiences had to learn a whole new language to understand and interpret the images. The effects are iboth ambitious and impressive
Important to remember that at the time, seeing something with your own eyes that wasn't real was a novel, and foreign concept, roughly the equivalent to if you saw these things IRL right in front of you. If I saw a performer make a chair vanish with no cover, transition or slight of hand, right in front of me, I would react exactly like this audience originally did.
this is incredible, including all the AMAZING hard work you did, but it's so uniquely eerie and surreal (the film itself and the upscaling/remastering) that i almost had to stop watching...like it was triggering some disturbing deja vu dream of a nightmare i had or something...idk how to explain but it's still so cool!!! in many ways, old horror can be "scarier" than the meh horror films of today.
Why can't you just be impressed. Why are we obsessed with being extra harsh to the past with their work and infantilizing their abilities and technology despite knowing just as much about their time as they know about our time. Walk two shoes.
@@therussianblin2175 I'm "genuinely" impressed is something like Simon cowell would say. You aren't a state judge lol, just say you liked it. Do you get what I mean.
A Masterpiece of moving making which used to be a craft and an art up until the late 90's when CGI started to become mainstream . CGI has no craft , no magic , nor sense of wonder and amazement . CGI will also not hold up after 100 years .
I had never imagined Schubert Impromptus as the soundtrack to a horror movie. Wow… I would never be able to listen to that the same way again! Does anyone know if that was also the music to the original movie? And I was wondering whose recording was used for this - it was played with so much mischievousness that it definitely added to the whole experience.
I was wondering the same thing. The film Metropolis had a fully scored soundtrack but wasn't actually recorded by anyone until 2001 according to Wikipedia. There's a huge list of artists that have done their own interpretations over the years. I had a gig playing a vintage theater organ back in the day and I would just play whatever felt appropriate or just make stuff up - little vamps to kill time, maybe throw a quote of something familiar in there. I think it was much the same back in the day. Silent films may have been distributed with sheet music scores but different theaters would have had different available instrumentation - and talent. If you saw it out in the boonies you might get Elmer playing chopsticks along to it 😄
Those classics are amazingly made,imagine for those years how much effort was needed to stage something like that with all those optical effects and stuff! And also is much creepier than some of the newest so called horror movies!
How the hell did they do that part at 2:58 in 1907? It almost looks like stop-motion but I start to wonder how this kind of fluency could even be done back then, even the best stop motion films nowadays are or as fluent or not even as fluent as this. If this is about being impressed, I agree with another commenter here, these Marvel special effects have become a joke with how boring they have become in combination with bad stories and without actual props (there is a reason why the special effects in Jurassic Park look so good), but this simply makes me wonder how they did it.
The impressive thing isn't so much the smoothness (that's a feature of the upscaler/frame interpolator), but, rather, that the original editor managed to splice all those frames together in a way that is still naturally fluid when up-rendered via AI algorithm. I can imagine some scraggled guy with bloodshot eyes sitting at a cutting table, poring over and trying to glue together a bunch of frames.
Stop motion was being done as early as 1898, with the film, "The Humpty Dumpty Circus". And yes, they were very good at it, especially French filmmakers at the time. They took their time. And 100% agreed, practical effects, when done well, beat CGI every time.
@@crnkmnky i don't think it has. I watched this years ago in B&W and it was the same movement. Stop photography is much easier with hand crank cameras than standard motor film cameras even decades later. A skilled cameraman can stop on a frame...then advance one or several frames as desired....without wasting frames to get speed...since the hand crank was instant speed
@@STho205 I can see the unsightly tell-tale artifacts of current AI processing, not stop-motion. The uploader admitted to these alterations in the title (60fps, 4K). You are suggesting that the enhancement of original smoothness is minimal. I'll believe it when I see it…
@@crnkmnky i saw one posted well over a decade ago. It looked the same but was in the original monochrome. Doubt that level of CGI was that smooth then. Titanic and Avatar computer work look like crap today. I think an old copy or two is still around. Take a look...but remember there is visual bias once you've made up your mind. Stop photography was easier with hand crank than any motorized system until you got no film digital.
@@spirossym6935 Yeah, a bit unlikely, though the current oldest verified living person in the world is a French nun born in 1904, so there's at least a few people who would have been children at the time of this film that are still living.
The strange woman's face in the painting and at the end was truly scary! Very good special effects for 1907! And there was humor, too. Also like that the actors were wearing very early 19th century clothing. But when a haunted house says, "Get out!", I'd rather say, "Uh, too bad we can't stay!" and I'd skedaddle!
The stop motion of the knife cutting is flawless and I bet the audience watching that back in those days most likely couldn't comprehend how that was done.
![[4k, 60fps, hand-colorized] (1907) The Red Spectre - Le Spectre Rouge, Segundo de Chomón.](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/tFVkwcsypUc/mqdefault.jpg)
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theres something about these old vintage movies that give off a nightmarish dream vibes
I've the same.
@@jeffmcdonald5901 I think you're overthinking it. People generally find older material like this to be creepy because they view the almost alien time period to be creepy in and of itself. No more, no less. Just people getting creeped out by "the olden days." As for Frankenstein, phantom, etc, that's largely your opinion. Most modern people do not find those characters to be particularly scary, they're basically pop culture these days. While Jack Pierce and Lon Chaney were masters of their craft, it would be daft to claim that no make-up artist since has been able to do a better job as there are scores of them I could name from Stan Winston to Rick Baker to Tom Savini.
@@GilbertSyndrome You could be right in the case of most people. But at least for me personally, I honestly feel that's why it does for me. So I am only assuming it's the same for others. I don't find the olden days creepy at all in and of themselves. But their scary stuff, even when done in a comedic fashion like this, fills me with the heebie jeebies. Frankenstein and Quasimodo and the Cheney's Phantom, for instance, on the other hand compared to Freddie Krueger or Predator - no comparison. Leatherface scared me when I was a kid because I hadn't seen much other modern scary characters because my parents wouldn't let me see such things. Somehow I did manage to see Leatherface somewhere once and he was scary. But I did have a lot of exposure to old scary movies because we had a channel that would show the old-time scary movies - often even from the silent years - late at night when my parents couldn't control what I watched. As I got older and saw more and more modern visions of scariness and I grew to find most of it laughable and even Leatherface still holds a twinge of creepiness in me only because I remember being creeped out by him once, but not anymore. But the old stuff? Scares the Bejebas out of me every time. I've even seen documentary footage of the History of Halloween and old black and white footage of kids before mass-produced costumes, when they had to be homemade and they nearly always fill me with dread far beyond what anything they come up with nowadays does. In credit to this film, I find even the "human" characters truly creepy because they're not truly human in appearance. They have creepy makeup on too. I do make an exception for Alien though. Alien has always kinda creeped me out. Probably because his features are kind of unique. All the other details of the modern scary characters seem to be amalgams of one another. This whole film I found hard to watch only because it creeped me out so bad, even though on a technical level it was amazing that they were able to pull off the effects they did so early on. I applaud the makers of this film. The only reason I couldn't watch it to the end was I just got too creeped out.
Dream, yes. Nightmare, no.
@@jeffmcdonald5901 uncanny valley effect
I can only imagine how scary this would be to someone in 1907
Even with the things they lived through
Yeah like no internet
@@Chriskros1984 they had internet but only dialup
@@dwillbecancelledsoon4086 and password was 1234 😁
The upbeat music and clownish makeup kind of takes the edge off.
imagine living in 1907 and seeing this for the first time
"The pictures are coming to life, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"
@@GrandChessboard well, the pictures started coming to live already in 1895...
@@alexkarpenter2306 🤓
4 years later the italians released the absolute madness that is Dante's Inferno (1911) - to say the least, it's at least as impressive, terrifying and all around an unforgettable experience. would recommend!
Moreover, imagine being a child in 1907 and seeing this for the first time!
That painting effect almost seems like an impossibility for the time. Remarkable!
...actually the entire film was amazing! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@@capngrim it's a matte effect. They covered the portion of the lens with a black rectangle of paper or cloth where it lines up with the painting so the film isn't exposed there, shoot the actors (that's why the actors duck out of the way when the effect happens), then rewind the film and shoot another exposure with the opposite areas blacked out to not double-expose those areas. When the film is processed you get this effect
Yea the painting was really cool
@@kingswing00 I don't know if it's the 4k upscaling but I don't think I've ever seen an in-camera matte effect look so amazing. The cut to the matte is obvious, but the witch looks huge and almost three-dimensional, like it's coming out of the frame. It rivals green screen effects to this day.
@@kingswing00 The ghost figure collapsing into the trio is also some astounding editing. Tight blocking and even tighter cuts.
@@xannaduu I think there's an A.I. element to the restoration including an A.I. face restoration that adds a level of dimension to it
Wow, the edition, the painting on the wall, the stop motion food effects, everything! This is a true jewel!!
The animated food table was really good! It was smoothly done with lots of little details.
Indeed!
@@lamontcranston3177 It was converted to 60 fps.
Are you kidding me? This was so poorly done and a pile of turds isn't a jewel.
@@DangItRed Describe any faults you noticed.
imagine yourself editing those effects in 1908. this was really amazing
There really was no editing then. It was all done in-camera.
@@colonelsandersonThis was edited . The people involved were genius film makers .
@@colonelsanderson Of course there was editing, look at 0:54
As a video editor, I tip my hat to the film editors of way back when before the advent of computers. Splicing clips together, adding special effects, working with manual film reels... boggles the mind how they'd manage. It's so simple in this day and age but back then... whew.
@@suddenlycrows back then the time you didn't know about anything including the processes? I wouldn't try to act like its daunting for them, let them speak for themselves about what was available at the time, which I assure you was far more advanced then you would think clearly.
Even by today's standards, that's hella impressive.
@Jk yah
Because its updgraded
true, wondering how they did the tilting room and invisible hand moving the tea effects
Exactly, great point! What a beautiful mind they must’ve had to make this. So creative, especially for that time.
@@yyg4632 Stop motion animation and light teapot suspended on thin metal wires?
I love that even though they've actually seen ghosts and their chairs disappear, they're still surprised at the sight of spoons stirring themselves in the cups.
this was groundbreaking and creatively done for its time
their faces are more disturbing than the house
"their faces are more disturbing than the house"
your comment made me chuckle... i agree ...while i was watching it i was trying to imagine if the 1907 audience would feel the same or all of the effects just overwhelm them...
Another prime example of how beneficial technical limitations are for creativity. Amazing stuff
That was great. I love how the ghost made them a whole meal and then took it away. They were non stop haunted!
That was pretty funny. Such a meticulously made and presented meal, and then *poof!* it's gone!
It is amazing to see the special effect in 1907!
That is my thoughts on this too!
*stop motion*
@@JAYO201 Stop motion (and very well done, by the way), compositing, probably some proto-rotoscoping... by the way, most of them are not special effects, but visual effects.
This type of film is based on the inventions of Georges Méliès, the godfather of stop motion or SFX. Méliès did this way before Chomón and even before Auguste Lumière. Méliès is the underrated master filmmaker.
harryhausen got nothing on him.
He was honored in Scorsese's _Hugo_
Scorsese is so overrated
ppl admire what they're told is great.
@@john-ic5pz As Kubrick, Tarkovsky and Even Eisenstein?
The creativity and cinematography special effects are amazing for 115 years ago. Very funny and entertaining even now😊
Wow! 115 years later, this is still impressive. I can but imagine the hard work the film makers put into those amazing special effects.
I am really fascinated by the masks used by the main characters... They remind me those of Greek or Japanese theatrical traditions...
It's funny you should mention that, at the time there was a big revival of interest in greek theater and a brand new large amount of interest in japanese theater. There was even a short lived art movement called Japonism that was influential at the time, even though it was around for less than 10 years.
1907? I'm blown away!
Thanks for posting.
For 1907 that is pretty dam amazing
The ending scene is insanely well done.
I didnt get it? He's about to eat them but then he just leaves them there to climb out of the bedclothes?
Amazing stop-motion photography!
The stop motion of the table and the sausage and bread cutting was really cool!
not to mention quite smooth
Jokes aside, the ending was really frightening... It was a really scary horror movie. I hoped they would survive :(
6:48 seems they did
yeah imo this has to be the first horror movie based on all the old ones before hand since this one imo was disturbing...a little funny but disturbing nonetheless.
This had a better plot than several modern movies that come to mind.... Pluto Nash.. The Mask 2... Rocky 5.. or was it 6? Which ever had Tommy Gunn in it!
The special effects were fantastic for their time. And I love how beautiful the color and motion is. Bravo! 👏 👏 👏 👏
That stop motion part was absolutely legendary. Serious talent!
The upscaling made this nightmare fuel!! Thank you 100%
The effects in this are still better than the CGI in a bunch of marvel movies.
come on son!
Genuinely - practical effects leave you going ‘wait how did they do that?’ and it’s truly becoming a lost art in mainstream cinema at this point
yeah i feel like CGI can often look cheap
The marvel movies will be unwatchable in 50 years , the CGI will look incredibly dated and awkward looking by then . In the long run practical effects will always win .
@@manchesterexplorer8519 CGI today is worse than it was 25 years ago.
Wonderful. Thanks for going to the trouble to post this. Best it's ever looked. The stop motion is so smooth.
My wife and I always stay at historical or haunted hotels when ever we can if we're traveling. What a great old show!
Ever had any incidents of note?
@@assmane999 Haha! I wish. But not yet. I'll happily post about it if/when something happens though.
Oh my, I actively avoid those.
I've been having paranormal interactions before I even knew the alphabet or even knew it was abnormal to be happening. Now that I've bought the devices you see on like "Ghost Adventures" (the only non-hoax ghost show really), I myself have managed to record evidence. : )
I like the cut of your jib!
The color and increased fps did nothing to lower the massive creep-out vibes this film gives off.... well done!!
Oh wow I have never seen this colorized!!! It makes it like watching for the first time again. Very cool, thanks!
that was absolutely marvelous. i think these early french filmmakers should be credited with creating "film expressionism." this was every bit as expressionistic as the german "the cabinet of dr. caligari" (1919) or "nosferatu" (1922). and to achieve these special effects took great imagination, skill and patience.
one of my favorite filmmakers from this period is Georges Méliès. he did so many classic films. but aside from those, one of my favorites is about some poor dude getting ready for bed. he can't get undressed because every time he removes a piece of clothing its magically replaced by another piece. its really funny. the frustration theme in comedy is one still in common use today. thanks for the video. it was a real joy!
Segundo de Chomón was a spanish filmmaker, although some of his early cinema works were made on France for the Pathè studios🤗🤗
That was some impressive stop motion with the tea party!
Truly pioneers in masterful filmmaking. 😊
Really fun! It's great to see these old flicks and the innovative effects they used for the time, and colorization really brings the past back alive and vibrant. Movie magic!
Amazing sfx in 1907! Stop motion is still great quality for today standards!
The creatures that lived back in 1907 were pretty scary and thankfully confined to movie sets.
The ghost was scarier, than a lot of modern day horror monsters with tons of CGI and cheap jump scares, I couldn’t help wondering what her “story” might be…
Can’t you imagine watching this for the first time back in the day.
Wow, this is incredible! The music is well-chosen & the coloring is quite enchanting! (I added Foley sound effects to this classic treasure last Halloween as a fun little project, but the music creates just the right mood. Thanks for this! (bwt, fun fact : this short film was the inspiration for Babadook. )
I wish the ghosts in my house would make me food like that.
And then take it away
This is better than anything Hollywood can put out nowadays, it's sad
Had all the modern B horror's characteristics. Haha.
The house is obviously haunted but they won't leave it just keep carry on with their things.. Haha
It was really good and entertaining.
Thanks for the colours! :)
You're right! I hadn't thought of that. If there had been a dark basement in that house, they would have gone down into it.
Films like this are a snap-shot into the past.. I love seeing these things from over a hundred years ago when cinema was ony just born and there was no real cinematic grammar (film language) so scenarios generally play out in 'master shots.' I imagine audiences would still have been thrilled, shocked, awed and even terrified when watching this in 1907... Excellent job on the clean up and colorization... great stuff.
It's just amazing what humans have accomplished over time. All the extra work and mechanics that went into film and the splicing of it is just phenomenal to see the history behind it and where film making is today; just the act and science behind recording is brilliant, I would have never been able to come up with something that does that 😂 and someone actually has which is remarkable...anyway..good stuff😊
Man how important is the music in this genre? It’s like a character unto itself. Love the chiaroscuro, the contrast between darkness and light, tragedy and comedy, fear and delight. Great art.
1907 was 100 years before 2007. Even 2007 already felt quite long ago.
The ghost was creepy, but those 3 people looked creepy too. Were they wearing masks?
I was noticing the same about their faces...it looks like one man had a prosthetic nose and both men had headpieces. Interesting
No it was their real faces 🤣 seriously you have to ask dumb questions was they wearing masks, what's next was the house real lol 100 years before 2007 I think someone got A+ in maths
It's caused by AI restoration.
@@daz69phillips and someone got an F in grammar. It’s were they wearing masks not was they wearing masks. Double check your comment for errors before mocking someone for asking legitimate questions
I remember back in 2007 seeing stop motion a lot like this by a guy named GiR2007 here on TH-cam, and the web was impressed with it. He did videos like "Pancakes" and "Addicted to TH-cam" and numerous others. Seeing a film from 1907 doing exactly the same things GiR2007 did 100 years later shows that the more things change, the more they stay the same. :)
Thank you for bringing this back to new generations!!
What a clever and delightful little film. It has held up over the years.
Brilliant. Necessity is the mother of invention. I love the creativity, using simple tricks. Dodged lighting, transposed double+ negatives and crafted miniatures yield such warm effect. Thanks for posting.
Impressive use of many effects in 1907: practical effects, double printing, stop motion, miniatures and probably more.
I'm assuming a lot of this is stop motion animation. But the fluidity of it is amazing. The Restoration and the colonization is top-notch.
“There are nightmare demon people in the paintings
chairs teleport when you try to sit on them
massive cloaked phantoms appear out of nowhere to terrorize us
but listen, we paid good money to stay here, we’re not leaving.”
Fascinating to see that many of the tropes used in this early film are still in common use over 100 years later. The creativity and technical skills are groundbreaking. The early pioneers were creating a whole new vocabulary of film, the audiences had to learn a whole new language to understand and interpret the images. The effects are iboth ambitious and impressive
OK the stop motion part was actually really good.
Che forza! Grazie mille❤️
Important to remember that at the time, seeing something with your own eyes that wasn't real was a novel, and foreign concept, roughly the equivalent to if you saw these things IRL right in front of you.
If I saw a performer make a chair vanish with no cover, transition or slight of hand, right in front of me, I would react exactly like this audience originally did.
The table scene is so much impressive 😳 ! Now let's be honest... the most scary thing is the three actors face makeup 😅😂.
I love how as soon as each intense haunting has ended they immediately return to their normal routine as if nothing happened lol
I don't understand why in these late days of theatre, early days of film the actors are told to emote so unnaturally.
You'd think they would have just left. The front door was right there the whole time.
Thanks!
Better then most films today 🎬
This just appeared in my timeline today, 1/6/24. As someone stated below, the effects back then were very impressive! Thoroughly enjoyed this short.😉
Woah, it's like the 1907 version of Evil Dead!
1907!?!? Absolutely amazing for the time. 10/10
El verdadero arte. Una joya clásica
this is incredible, including all the AMAZING hard work you did, but it's so uniquely eerie and surreal (the film itself and the upscaling/remastering) that i almost had to stop watching...like it was triggering some disturbing deja vu dream of a nightmare i had or something...idk how to explain but it's still so cool!!! in many ways, old horror can be "scarier" than the meh horror films of today.
Are we not going to talk about how smooth that stop motion was? I'm genuinely impressed
Why can't you just be impressed. Why are we obsessed with being extra harsh to the past with their work and infantilizing their abilities and technology despite knowing just as much about their time as they know about our time. Walk two shoes.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar that's exactly what I said tho... I said I was impressed. Honestly I don't really get what you're trying to tell me 😅
@@therussianblin2175 I'm "genuinely" impressed is something like Simon cowell would say. You aren't a state judge lol, just say you liked it. Do you get what I mean.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar actually no... What you're saying genuinely doesn't make any sense
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar oh, and also, English is my second language.... Just saying
Better film than anything Disney spits out these days
wow! amazing special effects even from 1907 ! this is really funny and also creepy
A Masterpiece of moving making which used to be a craft and an art up until the late 90's when CGI started to become mainstream . CGI has no craft , no magic , nor sense of wonder and amazement . CGI will also not hold up after 100 years .
Such a great silent movie, even 115 years later it's still remarkable.
Just appreciating that their first instinct upon seeing a ghost larger than any of them is to collectively attempt to beat the shit out of it
Царствие небесное этим людям
Imagine the nightmare of people who watched this a century ago.
I had never imagined Schubert Impromptus as the soundtrack to a horror movie. Wow… I would never be able to listen to that the same way again!
Does anyone know if that was also the music to the original movie?
And I was wondering whose recording was used for this - it was played with so much mischievousness that it definitely added to the whole experience.
The original soundtrack was by Hans Zimmer.
I was wondering the same thing. The film Metropolis had a fully scored soundtrack but wasn't actually recorded by anyone until 2001 according to Wikipedia. There's a huge list of artists that have done their own interpretations over the years. I had a gig playing a vintage theater organ back in the day and I would just play whatever felt appropriate or just make stuff up - little vamps to kill time, maybe throw a quote of something familiar in there. I think it was much the same back in the day. Silent films may have been distributed with sheet music scores but different theaters would have had different available instrumentation - and talent. If you saw it out in the boonies you might get Elmer playing chopsticks along to it 😄
1907 special effects are better than today's marvel movies
0:30 the house turned into Boris Johnson
Those classics are amazingly made,imagine for those years how much effort was needed to stage something like that with all those optical effects and stuff! And also is much creepier than some of the newest so called horror movies!
¡Guau! ¡Que buenos efectos de stop-motion! ☺☺☺
Imagine the conversations the next day.
Dude, you gotta see Haunted House, bro. I shit my trousers.
seriously, how on earth did they do some of those effects in 1907.
The fact that we can watch this silent short film over a century later with a home device connected to the internet is mind blowing to me!
How the hell did they do that part at 2:58 in 1907? It almost looks like stop-motion but I start to wonder how this kind of fluency could even be done back then, even the best stop motion films nowadays are or as fluent or not even as fluent as this.
If this is about being impressed, I agree with another commenter here, these Marvel special effects have become a joke with how boring they have become in combination with bad stories and without actual props (there is a reason why the special effects in Jurassic Park look so good), but this simply makes me wonder how they did it.
The impressive thing isn't so much the smoothness (that's a feature of the upscaler/frame interpolator), but, rather, that the original editor managed to splice all those frames together in a way that is still naturally fluid when up-rendered via AI algorithm.
I can imagine some scraggled guy with bloodshot eyes sitting at a cutting table, poring over and trying to glue together a bunch of frames.
Stop motion was being done as early as 1898, with the film, "The Humpty Dumpty Circus". And yes, they were very good at it, especially French filmmakers at the time. They took their time. And 100% agreed, practical effects, when done well, beat CGI every time.
It's just amazing how smooth this movie is for it used such an archaic camera
This film has been artificially smoothed and sharpened using computer algorithms.
@@crnkmnky i don't think it has. I watched this years ago in B&W and it was the same movement. Stop photography is much easier with hand crank cameras than standard motor film cameras even decades later.
A skilled cameraman can stop on a frame...then advance one or several frames as desired....without wasting frames to get speed...since the hand crank was instant speed
@@STho205 I can see the unsightly tell-tale artifacts of current AI processing, not stop-motion. The uploader admitted to these alterations in the title (60fps, 4K).
You are suggesting that the enhancement of original smoothness is minimal. I'll believe it when I see it…
@@crnkmnky i saw one posted well over a decade ago. It looked the same but was in the original monochrome. Doubt that level of CGI was that smooth then. Titanic and Avatar computer work look like crap today.
I think an old copy or two is still around. Take a look...but remember there is visual bias once you've made up your mind.
Stop photography was easier with hand crank than any motorized system until you got no film digital.
I was only a child at the time
I don’t think so.
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@@spirossym6935 Yeah, a bit unlikely, though the current oldest verified living person in the world is a French nun born in 1904, so there's at least a few people who would have been children at the time of this film that are still living.
座ろうとすると椅子が無くなって，すってんころりん後に転んじゃうギャグに思わず笑っちゃいました。
食卓のコマ撮りも面白いです！！
大昔のフィルムに人工着色、その色のセンスも凄く良いと思いました。
Although I am not usually allowed to watch spooky movies, this is One of the most amazing movies I've ever seen
How old are you?
wtf is not allowed to watch scary movies?
and what are you? like 5 yrs old?
@@jackholloway1 I can't say, not allowed, and its not safe to let others know online. But old enough so that I can see this one
This film has so many special effects! I love how they were experimenting with all the possibilities.
WTF is wrong with their faces, that is more nightmarish than anything.
Better than 99% of today's CGI movies
6:37 Brigitte Macron ?
Vous voulez dire Jean-Michel Trogneux?
The strange woman's face in the painting and at the end was truly scary! Very good special effects for 1907! And there was humor, too. Also like that the actors were wearing very early 19th century clothing. But when a haunted house says, "Get out!", I'd rather say, "Uh, too bad we can't stay!" and I'd skedaddle!
Wow, that table stopmotion was still quite impressive, lots of attention to the crumbs of the bread.
That scene with Joe Biden at the end was really terrifying!
Stop motion is better than most TH-camrs that do it ngl
The colorization completely ruins the atmosphere of the short
The stop motion of the knife cutting is flawless and I bet the audience watching that back in those days most likely couldn't comprehend how that was done.
3:24 What kind of truly diabolical psycho uses a napkin, then puts it back in the holder?!
2:49 Never I saw a ghost this polite before. serving some random trespassers fine dining