The Biter Bit
| The Biter Bit | |
|---|---|
 Screenshot from the film | |
| Produced by | James Bamforth |
Production company | Bamforth Company |
Release date |
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Running time | 1 min 9 secs |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | Silent |
The Biter Bitis an1899Britishshortblack-and-whitesilentcomedy film,produced byBamforth & Co Ltd,featuring a boy playing a practical joke on a gardener by grasping his hose to stop the water flow and then letting go when the gardener looks down it to check. The film "is an English remake" ofAuguste and Louis Lumière'sL'Arroseur Arrosé(1895), according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "providing a good illustration of how early film production companies cheerfully plagiarised each other's work" with "a few minor differences between, most notably a rather greater sense of space and depth in the Bamforth version" and "three distinct planes to the action". It is included in the BFI DVDEarly Cinema: Primitives and Pioneersand a clip is used inPaul Merton's interactive guide to early British silent comedyHow They Laughedon the BFI website.[1][2][3]
References
[edit]- ^Brooke, Michael."The Biter Bit".BFI Screenonline.Retrieved24 April2011.
- ^"The Biter Bit".BFI Film & TV Database.Archived fromthe originalon 23 October 2012.Retrieved24 April2011.
- ^Merton, Paul."How They Laughed".BFI Screenonline.Retrieved24 April2011.
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