Smile for the Dead: An Examination of Spirit Photography (2025)
54 min
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?
- Release date
- January 5, 2025
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Samuel Nobles
- Budget
- $25,000
Trailer
Cast
- Hamilton Young Ward as Self - Director
- Mark Osterman as Self - Photographic Process Historian
- Crista Cloutier as Self - Mumler Biographer
- Felicity T.C. Hamer as Self - PhD Communication
- Katrina Weidman as Self - Paranormal Invesitgator
- Leslie Young-Ward as Self - MDiv
Crew
- William H. Mumler · Archive footage
- Hamilton Young Ward · Director
- Hamilton Young Ward · Writer
- Samuel Nobles · Composer