- Cheese Mites; or, Lilliputians in a London Restaurant
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Cheese Mites; or, Lilliputians in a London Restaurant
Screenshot from the filmDirected by Walter R. Booth Produced by Robert W. Paul Studio Paul's Animatograph Works Release date(s) August 1901 Running time 56 secs Country United Kingdom Language Silent Cheese Mites; or, Lilliputians in a London Restaurant is a 1901 British short silent comedy film, directed by Walter R. Booth, featuring a gentleman being entertained by the little people who emerge from the cheese at his table. The film, "contains a reference to Jonathan Swift's satirical novel Gulliver's Travels (1726)," and is, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "sophisticated in that he combined the jump-cut with superimposition."[1]
References
- ^ Brooke, Michael. "Cheese Mites; or, Lilliputians in a London Restaurant". BFI Screenonline Database. http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1016087/. Retrieved 2011-04-24.
External links
Categories:- 1901 films
- British films
- Black-and-white films
- British silent films
- Silent short films
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