Movie Details
Original Language:English
Clown and Police
Audience Score
2 min
A Victorian vaudeville routine is given the big screen treatment with camera tricks galoreThree 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 Hepworths own catalogue for 1900 contained a great deal of footage from South Africa
DirectorCecil M. Hepworth
