The cook is making something involving a bowl of flour when the boy sneaks in, and the cop enters. While the adults are enjoying a bottle of beer, the the boy sets off a firecracker, covering the adults in flour.
It's a class of short comedy which consists of a practical joke, and then stops. Nowadays, with comedies that can last several hours, it is good to remember that once the movies were shorter, sometimes as short as half a minute, and that comedies always averaged quicker than tragedies or straight dramas.
None of which makes this particularly funny. The adults seem oblivious, the child malicious.
It's a class of short comedy which consists of a practical joke, and then stops. Nowadays, with comedies that can last several hours, it is good to remember that once the movies were shorter, sometimes as short as half a minute, and that comedies always averaged quicker than tragedies or straight dramas.
None of which makes this particularly funny. The adults seem oblivious, the child malicious.
