Grandma's Glasses
1932 , Monken Hadley (Greater London)
Cat no. 9517
Disappearing glasses spark a comic spectacle.
Amateur filmmaker, cinema historian and railway engineer H.A.V. Bulleid uses slapstick humour and witty intertitles in this farce. When the family dogs team up to steal and bury Grandma's glasses, they spark a farcical chain of events in which our hapless hero attempts to track down the missing spectacles. But even when the glasses 'turn up', the ordeal isn't over as they get stuck up a tree and switched with a bomb. And in the end, it's sure to be the dogs who have the last laugh.
Intertitles
"Grandma is in the garden... by the laurel, reading Hardy." "Will this wool be enough for a bathing costume?" "I'll need my glasses to see it." "They're lost." "Grandma has lost her glasses." "Here I stay till they're found!" "Sensational loss of spectacles...by Mother IN LAW." "Don't you know where they are?" "Know? - No!" "We'll have to see about seeing if we can see them..." "That's let the cat out of the bag!" "You've been burying a bone..." "Throw up the sponge, brother." "They'll turn up..." "They're up the tree..." "So am I!" "Why did you bury those glasses?" "This so-called table is obsolete." "You're fired!" "Flower of youth!" Fair Exchange?
Other Places
Wood House, Hadley Common, Hertfordshire
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Maker : H. A. V. Bulleid
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Production company : Wood House Pictures
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Director : H. A. V. Bulleid
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Script : H. A. V. Bulleid
Manifestations
Grandma's Glasses
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Locations: Monken Hadley (Greater London)
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Description Type: monographic
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