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By Night with Torch and Spear

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Smoke, sparks and steam dance together in Cornell's found-footage collage. Backwards title cards (or an alien language, if you like) punctuate this mishmash of the industrial and the ancient.

DirectorJoseph Cornell

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By Night with Torch and Spear hasn't started streaming in United States yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around February 18, 1943. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.