Film

Smile for the Dead: An Examination of Spirit Photography

2025Documentary Crime

Director: Hamilton Young Ward
Year: 2025

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?

Top cast

Hamilton Young Ward

Self

Mark Osterman

Self - Historian

Crista Cloutier

Self - Mumler Biographer

Felicity T.C. Hamer

Self - Historian

Leslie Young-Ward

Self - Grief and Loss Expert

Katrina Weidman

Self - Paranormal Invesitgator

Directed by

Hamilton Young Ward

Written by

Hamilton Young Ward