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Clown and Police

A Victorian vaudeville routine is given the big screen treatment with camera tricks galore.

Trick film 1900 2 mins Silent

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Overview

Three characters straight off the vaudeville stage - the mischievous tramp, the anarchic clown and the hapless bobby - duke it out here in a sketch involving an exploding gunpowder barrel. Plenty of camera tricks help the characters appear and disappear at just the right moments. Made by Hepworth & Co., this film was presumably a welcome relief to audiences tiring of bad news from the Boer War; Hepworth’s own catalogue for 1900 contained a great deal of footage from South Africa.

Director
Cecil M. Hepworth
Genres
Trick film
Released
1900
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English