The Haunted Hotel
An early silent-era comedy-horror short that uses surreal animation and slapstick to playfully torment a hapless traveler with ghostly pranks and impossible happenings.
A traveler stays the night at a rural inn, but gets no rest as he is tormented by various spectres and mysterious happenings.
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