Tommy Atkins in the Park

Tommy Atkins in the Park
Screenshot from the film
Directed by Robert W. Paul
Produced by Robert W. Paul
Cinematography Robert W. Paul
Production
company
Paul's Animatograph Works
Release date
  • August 1898 (1898-08)
Running time
 47 secs
Country United Kingdom
Language Silent

Tommy Atkins in the Park is an 1898 British short black-and-white silent comedy film, directed by Robert W. Paul, featuring couple courting in a park who are forced to use desperate measures to get rid of a stout matron who interrupts them. The film was a remake of Alfred Moul's The Soldier's Courtship (1896). It is included on the BFI DVD R.W. Paul: The Collected Films 1895-1908 and a clip is featured in Paul Merton's interactive guide to early British silent comedy How They Laughed on the BFI website.[1][2][3]

References

  1. ↑ Brooke, Michael. "Tommy Atkins in the Park". BFI Screenonline. Retrieved 2011-04-24.
  2. ↑ "Tommy Atkins in the Park". BFI Film & TV Database. Retrieved 2011-04-24.
  3. ↑ Merton, Paul. "How They Laughed". BFI Screenonline. Retrieved 2011-04-24.


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