This Day in Halloween: The halloween-themed documentary short "Black Cats and Broomsticks" opens across the U.S. in 1955. / Illustration by CJ Byford
Black Cats and Broomsticks opens across the U.S. in 1955. The documentary short examines superstitions and is shot and directed by documentarian Larry O’Reilly, who made Alert Today – Alive Tomorrow, We Never Sleep, and the game show parody It Pays To Be Ignorant.
