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- BFI identifier5081
- Date1910 (Release)
- Production countryFrance
- SynopsisDRAMA. A couple at a long dinner table, attended by servants, say goodnight to their child. When the child has left, the couple excitedly notice a comet through the window. At an observatory, an aged astronomer looks at the comet through his telescope. Meanwhile the small girl is being put to bed by her nurse. The child suddenly sees the comet through the window, and calls excitedly. Her mother rushes in and, bundling the child up, rushes out. All the family and servants, with the nurse and child, climb into a car, followed by more servants in another, and flee to a cave in the hills. They arrive at the cave exhausted, and all rush to drink from a small waterfall. The comet is seen passing round a model of the globe. The garage from which the family have just fled collapses in ruins, killing a servant left behind. A miser is seen counting his gold, going to the window, he is overcome when the tail of the comet passes, and the gold left on the table is burnt completely away. Houses, farms and towns are seen consumed with the fire left by the tail of the comet. The family and the others who had fled with them, including a Red Cross worker, leave their cave to see the comet passing into the distance. They return to the city to find it in ruins. As the others sit dejectedly, the father of the family looks at the desolation through binoculars (535ft). (Shotlist)
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Title
HALLEY'S COMET (Original)
LEHMAN UND DER HALLEYSCHE KOMET (Alternative)
Category
Fiction- Collections
- Film / Video
35mm BW Positive - Safety - Silent - Viewing
35mm BW Positive - Polyester - Silent - Viewing
35mm Colour Positive - Polyester - Silent - Viewing
35mm BW Positive - Safety - Silent - Viewing
Digital Betacam - Video - Viewing
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- +HALLEY'S COMET
Work - 5081 - 1910 (Release)
France - Film - Fiction
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