Canada
English
00:03:30
44 ft
8mm
Colour
Silent
"This film shows a newspaper delivery boy, Douglas Woodley, son of Charles Devenish Woodley, on his route." Library and Archives Canada.
This film is a part of the Charles Devenish Woodley Collection held by Library and Archives Canada.
LAC notes that the film won several awards in amateur film contests.
Charles Devenish Woodley Collection, Library and Archives Canada
"It shows: boy putting newspapers in a canvas bag and getting on his bicycle; he drives down the street with the bag of newspapers; he tosses newspapers at various houses; close-ups of newspapers as they land near or hit milk bottles on doorsteps, in a garden and on a rooftop; cutaways to irate customers, one of whom picks up a soggy newspaper which has landed on the wet porch he has just mopped; cutaways to an old woman who keeps looking for her newspaper on the porch, not knowing that it has landed in her flowerbed; a cat drinks from a puddle of milk leaking from a broken milk bottle; a customer peeks out a window; the paperboy throws his last paper in the ditch and the old lady still looks for her paper," via Library and Archives Canada.
Amateur Cinema