Movies: Melville Webber

  • 1928
    The Fall of the House of Usher

    The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)

    The Fall of the House of Usher

    6.81928HD

    In a decaying castle surrounded by a dank, mirrored lake live the morbidly nervous Roderick Usher and his sickly twin sister, Madeline. Their tale is told and dimly comprehended by the unnamed narrator, a boyhood friend whom Roderick has summoned. Wh...

    The Fall of the House of Usher
  • 1933
    Lot in Sodom

    Lot in Sodom (1933)

    Lot in Sodom

    6.41933HD

    Lot in Sodom is a sensual depiction of the Sodom and Gomorrah story filled with sinewy and semi-clad bodies, delirious bacchanals devoted to physical pleasure, and a searing, cataclysmic finale depicting the fall of a city devoted to sins of the fles...

    Lot in Sodom
  • 1934
    Rhythm in Light

    Rhythm in Light (1934)

    Rhythm in Light

    6.71934HD

    Screen titles introduce the film as a modern artist's impressions of what goes on in the mind while listening to music. Grieg's "Peer Gynt Suite" accompanies images of common objects and abstract forms photographed in soft focus and through prisms: r...

    Rhythm in Light
  • 1930
    The Eyes of Science

    The Eyes of Science (1930)

    The Eyes of Science

    01930HD

    The optical company Bausch & Lomb of Rochester, New York, contracted Watson and Webber to create this corporate industrial film to showcase the company’s extensive catalog of lenses and other optical instruments, displaying their practical applicatio...

    The Eyes of Science