Tommy Atkins in the Park
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.
Q913057
1898
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British
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short
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Q838368
black-and-white
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silent
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Q157443
comedy film
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Q2719798
Robert W. Paul
PER
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Alfred Moul
PER
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Paul Merton
PER
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Tommy Atkins in the Park
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1898-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1898
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1895
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1896
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-1908
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director