Police officers try to evict a determined family from their home.Police officers try to evict a determined family from their home.Police officers try to evict a determined family from their home.
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Here we have a straightforward and violent slapstick from Alf Collins. Mr. Collins was considered an expert in the chase film in his time, and that's what we have here, as an eviction notice is served, much violence is done -- and several bath-tubs worth of water are showered down upon the evictors, and everyone beats each other, often with sticks. Ha ha. Or, as this is English, perhaps Haw haw.
Although this is interestingly done by the standards of time, being offered in four shots, there is something wrong with the camera set-ups. Action occurs at the left edge of the frame more frequently than it does near the center. While it is true that having matters occur off screen can have its humorous effect, it needs some ancillary corroboration to what is going on: people being thrown back onscreen perhaps, as in a cartoon fight disappearing into a cloud of dust, with the occasional word balloon with several dingbats of violent dialogue. That doesn't happen here. The camera has simply been set up wrongly for the shot.
Although this is interestingly done by the standards of time, being offered in four shots, there is something wrong with the camera set-ups. Action occurs at the left edge of the frame more frequently than it does near the center. While it is true that having matters occur off screen can have its humorous effect, it needs some ancillary corroboration to what is going on: people being thrown back onscreen perhaps, as in a cartoon fight disappearing into a cloud of dust, with the occasional word balloon with several dingbats of violent dialogue. That doesn't happen here. The camera has simply been set up wrongly for the shot.
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- boblipton
- Dec 22, 2019
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- Runtime2 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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