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Children were always a popular subject in early film programmes, as R.W. Paul discovered in 1896 with The Twins' Tea Party, and this more sophisticated variation on that theme has a similar appeal. It's also a model of how to construct a simple one-shot narrative with a fixed camera. The bed is to the left of the shot, the door to the right, most of the action occurs in the middle, and the camera is sufficiently far back for us to see the girl under the bed, laughing merrily at the chaos her actions have caused. Michael Brooke
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Complete film (0:48)
