The Red Spectre
About The Red Spectre
In a cave, a skeleton in a red cape makes women appear and turns them into whirling flames. He lays two of them on black cloths over altars and sets the cloths alight. A woman in light, the good spirit, interrupts him. He pours water into three empty bottles and miniature women show inside them. She stops that too. He opens a three-panel screen and produces another young woman. The good spirit wins, and turns him into a bare skeleton.
Cast & crew
More about The Red Spectre
Segundo de Chomón and Ferdinand Zecca directed. Chomón wrote it. Julienne Mathieu stars with him. Pathé released it in 1907, colored by stencil. It is often mixed up with his other short Satan s'amuse.
Themes
Look
The cave, the flames, and the red cape are stencil-colored.
Preservation
A stencil-colored print survives.
Notes
- The French title is Le Spectre rouge.
- Wikipedia times one copy at 9 minutes 57 seconds and another viewing at 8 minutes 24 seconds.
- The color is Pathé stencil, not a later tint.
- Julienne Mathieu plays against Chomón's devil.
Scenes
- Three miniature women appear inside the bottles.
- The good spirit reduces the red devil to a skeleton.
