Clown and Police (1900): cast, story & where to watch
1900 · Film
Released in 1900, Clown and Police is a notable film directed by Cecil M. Hepworth.
What it’s about. A Victorian vaudeville routine is given the big screen treatment with camera tricks galore.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.
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- When was Clown and Police released?
- Clown and Police was released in 1900.