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Smile for the Dead: An Examination of Spirit Photography

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Director
Hamilton Young Ward
Cast
Hamilton Young Ward as Self Mark Osterman as Self - Historian Crista Cloutier as Self - Mumler Biographer Felicity T.C. Hamer as Self - Historian Leslie Young-Ward as Self - Grief and Loss Expert Katrina Weidman as Self - Paranormal Invesitgator
Crew
Hamilton Young Ward — Writer
Synopsis

1869: William H Mumler stood trial for fraud in New York for claiming to photograph spirits of customers' deceased loved ones. Mumler walked free as experts of the day could not figure his methods. Was he a fraud? Or could he truly photograph the dead?

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