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Brown’s Half Holiday
(1905) England
B&W : 400 feet
Directed by James Williamson
Cast: (unknown)
Williamson Films production; distributed by The Charles Urban Trading Company, Limited. / Produced by James Williamson. / Released July 1905. / [?] 35mm spherical format? / Williamson film number 274.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [From a W. Butcher & Sons catalog of Williamson films] Brown is a city man. Returning early one day from the office he meets his friend Jones, who asks him to join him for a game of tennis. He is just leaving his house when he is stopped and made to return by his wife, who reminds him of his promise to help spring clean. We then see the poor man endeavouring to lay carpets on the stairs, clean windows, clean the flue, and stop a leak in a water pipe. Emerging from these ordeals rather worse then he started, he is then set to find where the gas is escaping. This he does with a lighted taper with the usual result: he is blown through the window. But Brown was a cute man, he knew where he was going, for we see him gently landing in the tennis court, where he gets his game after all.
Survival status: Print exists in the British Film Institute National Archive film archive.
Current rights holder: (unknown)
Listing updated: 28 May 2018.
References: Gifford-British n. 01097; Magliozzi-Treasures n. 2247; Sopocy-Williamson pp. 254, 257.
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