Still from Our Angel Children via National Library of Scotland
United Kingdom
English
00:14:15
400 ft
16mm
B&W
Silent
A story of a young boy and girl who play pranks on their maid as their Mother is away from the house.
IAC Film Library Catalogue (Silent and Sound). Institute of Amateur Cinematographers, 1975.
This film is part of the Institute of Amateur Cinematographers Collection held by the East Anglian Film Archive, Norwich, UK.
Institute of Amateur Cinematographers Collection, East Anglian Film Archive
"A well-off middle-class young boy and girl are left in the house by their mother; the maid works downstairs. The children put aside their previous pursuits (playing the piano and drawing). The young girl dances a jig while the boy plays the piano for her. Her dancing is so energetic she brings down the ceiling light in the room below. They play outside with a toy car and with laundry. They play tricks on the maid by turning off the water and turning the oven on so a pan burns. As the maid sits reading `Hell and High Water' by Charles Wesley Sanders they turn the water on again and cause a flood in the kitchen. They play with their parent's car in the garage and drive the car down the drive where it smashes through the gates and goes down a hill. They return home to see water seeping out from under the door. They turn the taps off as mother returns." (EAFA Database)
Amateur Cinema