''Photographing a Ghost'' (1898) is a silent
short film
A short film is a film with a low running time. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of not more than 40 minutes including all credits". Other film o ...
directed by
George Albert Smith. It is about
photographers
A photographer (the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who uses a camera to make photographs.
Duties and types of photograp ...
that try, but repeatedly fail, to take a picture of a ghost.
See also
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List of ghost films
Ghost movies and shows can fall into a wide range of genres, including romance, comedy, horror, juvenile interest, and drama.
History
With the advent of motion pictures and television, screen depictions of ghosts became common and spanned a vari ...
References
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1898 films
1898 horror films
1890s British films
British black-and-white films
British silent short films
British ghost films
Films about photographers
Films directed by George Albert Smith
1890s ghost films
1898 short films
Silent British horror films
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