An Interesting Story

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The adventures of an inattentive man. He's at his kitchen table, reading. A woman brings his hat and points to the clock. He continues reading and pours coffee into his hat. He leaves, still... Read allThe adventures of an inattentive man. He's at his kitchen table, reading. A woman brings his hat and points to the clock. He continues reading and pours coffee into his hat. He leaves, still reading, trips over a servant who's on her hands and knees cleaning the walk. He walks th... Read allThe adventures of an inattentive man. He's at his kitchen table, reading. A woman brings his hat and points to the clock. He continues reading and pours coffee into his hat. He leaves, still reading, trips over a servant who's on her hands and knees cleaning the walk. He walks through jump-roping girls, runs into a mule, walks into the only other person on an empty st... Read all

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- James Williamson

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Considered to be the world's 1st slapstick film.

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Charles Crichton Wanted to Make a Movie in Which a Man Was Run Over By a Steam Roller....

A man reads an interesting book at breakfast. It absorbs him so completely that he pours coffee into his hat. He continues reading it as he walks into the street, colliding with various people..... and a steam roller in this amusing variation on Walter Booth's AN EXTRAORDINARY CAB ACCIDENT.

The director this movie, James Williamson, came into film-making not through photography, but because he ran a chemist shop -- where he presumably developed film -- and expanded into selling photographic equipment, in Hove, quite near George A. Smith's St Ann's Well Pleasure Garden. Besides shooting and directing his own films, he patented a couple of devices useful for film production, founded a company to produce photographic equipment that was active at least until the Second World War, and lived until 1933.

The IMDb trivia for this movie notes that it is considered to be the earliest slapstick film -- obviously no one has ever heard of at least three version of THE MILLER AND THE SWEEP released in 1897.

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