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Tom Merry, Lightning Cartoonist, Sketching Kaiser Wilhelm II (1895)

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35mm, black and white, silent, 4 feet

Photography	Birt Acres
Producer	R.W. Paul

Cast: Tom Merry

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Cartoonist Tom Merry does a quick sketch of Kaiser Wilhelm II.

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One of many actuality shorts filmed by Birt Acres in 1895, in its surviving fragmentary form it provides a brief glimpse of Tom Merry, a popular caricaturist of the period (his work was featured extensively in the St Stephen's Review).

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	GALLERY / SCRIPTS / AUDIO

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	Acres, Birt (1854-1918)