Learning on ScreenProverb Competition: This Cartoon No.10 represents a well-known Proverb, and is the last of the Competition.
Series
- Series Name
- Around The Town
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 6 / 8
- Section Title
- Proverb Competition
- Summary
- Summary - the final installment of the Proverb Competition
NoS synopsis: ‘This Cartoon No.10 represents a well-known Proverb, and is the last of the Competition. The result will be announced here and also in "Pictures", the Kinema Newspaper _'. Blank screen. A man’s hand a sign with three (illegible) words on it. Then a man sitting at a table laid for dinner, and a waiter spilling a cup of tea off a tray onto the seated man. He seems to be tripping over a cat. Customer - ‘Waiter, I’m in a hurry’. Waiter - ‘Coming quickly, Sir!' The hand signs the picture. - Keywords
- Competitions; Cinema
- Written sources
- Kinematograph Weekly 28 July 1921, p33.
The Bioscope 11 August 1921, p52.
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- Credits:
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- Production Co.
- Around the Town Ltd.
- Length of story (in feet)
- 145
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- British Film Institute (BFI)
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