Running time 1 minute 16 secs Initial release 1902 | Produced by Robert W. Paul Country United Kingdom Director Walter R. Booth | |
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Productioncompany Paul's Animatograph Works Release date December 1902 (1902-12) Similar A Railway Collision, An Extraordinary Cab Acci, The Hand of the Artist, The Haunted Curiosity, A Chess Dispute | ||
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The Extraordinary Waiter (AKA: Diner and Waiter Comic) is a 1902 British short silent comedy film, directed by Walter R. Booth, featuring a brutish colonialist failing to destroy a blackfaced waiter. The film, "makes for somewhat uncomfortable viewing," but according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "it's just about possible to read this as a metaphor for the rather more widespread frustrations arising from British colonial rule (the Boer War was still a current issue), though it seems unlikely that this was intentional on Booth's part."
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