While grandma is out of the kitchen, the boys fill the standard lamp with flour. Grandma comes back and takes down the lamp, covering herself with flour.
It's the sort of simple, practical-joke that made up a one-minute comedy in those days, when major productions from%Melies would run as much as three minutes. It's shot exceedingly simple, with the camera sitting in the center of the first row.
It's excessively primitive, because it is so old, and because director James White rarely did much in the way of shooting things imaginatively, or sometimes even competently. I imagine the audience laughed in anticipation of granny getting covered with flour...and the whipping the boys would receive.
It's the sort of simple, practical-joke that made up a one-minute comedy in those days, when major productions from%Melies would run as much as three minutes. It's shot exceedingly simple, with the camera sitting in the center of the first row.
It's excessively primitive, because it is so old, and because director James White rarely did much in the way of shooting things imaginatively, or sometimes even competently. I imagine the audience laughed in anticipation of granny getting covered with flour...and the whipping the boys would receive.
