Here are a couple of stills from D. W. Griffith's 1909 short mystery The Hindoo Dagger. The film was strong on "exotic superstition" and had light flourishes of fantasy. But the notion that an imported dagger from India had mystical influence (whether real or imagined) put the film solidly in the category of a supernatural genre.
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| [photo credit: California Digital Library] |
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| [photo credit: South Asian American Digital Archive] |
[note: I am having issues--again--with blogger--so this is a more truncated post than I had intended. I hope everyone is having a great spooktober! 🎃🎃]
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