Spooky Seance - 1932 | The Archivist Presents | #340

My friend Lauren is writing a book about a Victorian medium. I thought she might like this newsreel featuring a seance filmed by British Movietone in 1932. It’s a very strange little film! Movietone releases some extracts from record of seance made in studio early last year. Lady Conan Doyle attends dramatic demonstration by Mrs Meurig Morris. EDITOR’S NOTE: For the first time in the history of sound motion pictures, British Movietone News has been able to record a seance. You will notice that during this unique film the microphones crashed to the ground, the medium remaining oblivious to the danger of this occurrence. You can license this footage for commercial use through AP Archive. Story number is: BM1028 Find out more about AP Archive: Twitter: Facebook: Tumblr: ​​ Instagram: