This is the kind of film Chaplin might have made had he been making movies in 1905, its' humour and inventiveness are that impressive. But then it's a film made by James Williamson - one of the Brighton School of early British filmmakers - and by 1905 he had already demonstrated that he was a man capable of producing quality material.
The story is slight but fast-moving and humorous. Our hero is so absorbed in the book he is reading that he can't bear to raise his head from it which means he is fortunate to somehow survive a number of potentially fatal encounters with scrubbing housewives, skipping children and slow-moving steamrollers.
The story is slight but fast-moving and humorous. Our hero is so absorbed in the book he is reading that he can't bear to raise his head from it which means he is fortunate to somehow survive a number of potentially fatal encounters with scrubbing housewives, skipping children and slow-moving steamrollers.