Direction: Melville Webber

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Melville Webber. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Lot in Sodom

1933 · Movie · 28 min. · United States

Direction James Sibley Watson · Melville Webber

Cast Friedrich Haak · Hildegarde Watson · Dorthea House · Lewis Whitbeck

Plot A short avant-garde film based on the biblical episode of Sodom and Gomorrah.

6.5

81 votes

6.5

81 votes

The Fall of the House of Usher (S)

1928 · Movie · 14 min. · United States

Direction James Sibley Watson · Melville Webber

Cast Herbert Stern · Hildegarde Watson · Melville Webber

Plot A traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants, Roderick and Madeline Usher, are living under a mysterious family curse: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute,...

6.4

198 votes

6.4

198 votes

Rhythm in Light (S)

1935 · Documentary · 5 min. · United States

Direction Mary Ellen Bute · Ted Nemeth · Melville Webber

Plot Bute used Webber’s experience with making cardboard models and with photographing in soft focus and through prisms to produce multiple refractions and reflections. In addition, she used cellophane, ping-pong balls,...

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