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Pimple's Charge of the Light Brigade (1914)
 

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35mm, 710 feet, black & white, silent
 
DirectorsFred Evans
 Joe Evans
Production CompanyFolly Films

Cast: Fred Evans (Pimple)

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Pimple leads his valliant cavalry into the Valley of Death.

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The parody films made by Fred and Joe Evans took many sacred cows as their subject. Tennyson's famous poem, forced on generations of schoolchildren and the subject of many a music hall lampoon, would have been even more familiar and perhaps more poignant to an audience of 1914. The transformation of famous sites was a device that the Evans brothers used frequently: here the Valley of Death becomes a pub, while in Lieutenant Pimple's Dash for the Pole (1914) the North Pole becomes an Inn, and in Pimple's Battle of Waterloo (1913) the site of the famous battle becomes Waterloo station.

Bryony Dixon

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Complete surviving film (1:45)
GALLERY / SCRIPTS / AUDIO
SEE ALSO
Evans, Fred (1889-1951)
Evans, Joe (1891-1967)
The 'Pimple' Films
The Roots of Monty Python