A Horrible Nightmare

1902 Drama 1 minute

About A Horrible Nightmare

A man smokes opium, falls asleep, and dreams he is in prison. Ferdinand Zecca directed the one-minute trick.

More about A Horrible Nightmare

Ferdinand Zecca directed. The recorded length is one minute.

Themes

  • An opium dream
  • A prison that arrives in sleep
  • opium
  • nightmare
  • prison
  • trick film
  • Ferdinand Zecca

Notes

  • The dream is the prison, not a longer adventure. The smoker wakes into the cell the moment he sleeps.
  • Zecca was turning out trick subjects of this length in 1902, the same year as Dance of the Sylphs.

Scenes

  • The smoker nods off and the scene becomes a cell.

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