The Fall of the House of Usher (1928 American film)

The Fall of the House of Usher 1928 is a short silent horror film adaptation of the short story, The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe. It tells the story of a brother and sister who live under a family curse. The actors are Herbert Stern, Hildegarde Watson, and Melville Webber.

An avantgarde experimental film, the visual element predominates, including shots through prisms to create optical distortion. There is no dialogue, though one part features letters moving across the screen.In 2000, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant film and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. ........

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