'Darkened Rooms' Original 1929 Movie Set Concept Art - Spirit Photography Film

Description

Four Rare
Original
1929 "
Darkened Rooms
"
Framed Movie Concept Art
These are rare one of a kind original drawings created for the film.
They are
Not
reproductions.
A rare collection of very early talking film treasures.
Darkened Rooms
is a 1929 American mystery film
directed by Louis J. Gasiner
and starring
Evelyn Brent about a "Spirit Photographer"
.
An early talker, this film was released near the end of 1929 - almost a full year into Paramount's talking age.
"Evelyn Brent fills the eyes and ears again with presence."
One of
Evelyn Brent's early talkie roles. She is one of the screen's truly unsung divas.
Neil Hamilton is Emory Yago, the struggling proprietor of a boardwalk photography shop. Madame Silvera, an adjacent spiritual medium, hires Emory to fake "spirit photos", and he becomes intrigued with the financial possibilities of spiritualism. While researching this new business enterprise, an exhausted and starving chorus girl (Evelyn Brent) collapses in Emory's shop. He shows kindness, feeding and nurturing her back to health, and she repays his rescue by picking up the slack at the photo shop. In spite of the affection Emory and Ellen share, greed overtakes Emory's heart and his spiritualism racket consumes his thoughts. Ellen will resort to some trickery of her own to save her relationship and get Emory to "go straight".
Based on the short story "Darkened Rooms" by Philip Hamilton Gibbs in
Heart's International-Cosmopolitan
(Mar--Jun 1928).
Size: 13.75" x 11.75 inches framed
All in Very Good+ Condition
Guaranteed Original
This film is preserved at the Library of Congress.
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