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- BFI identifier5166
- Date1912 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
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- Synopsis[Missing section - Two or three days before Christmas, a man who is left in charge of the costumes and properties of a Christmas pantomime celebrates the festive seasons somewhat too early, and falls asleep in a drunken stupor. He dreams that Harlequin and Columbine suddenly appear and summon to them the Clown, Pantaloon and Policeman]. With Harlequin and Columbine in front leading them on to mischief, Clown and Pantaloon steal sausages from the butchers, upset pastries in the bakers, disturb a bill poster and steal a baby - all with the policeman in pursuit. Finally, they whitewash the customers of a barbershop and then race to a quiet lodging house where they upset the landlady and cause the pictures and furniture to behave in a peculiar manner. The culprits eventually take refuge in the baskets from which they emerged...(472ft). Incomplete (550ft). (Shotlist)
- Work historyThe identity of the director is uncertain. Denis Gifford's 'The British Film Catalogue Volume 1 Fiction Film, 1895-1994' suggests that it may be Hay Plumb.
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Title
A Harlequinade Let Loose (Original)
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10.5240/B1D3-B1C5-31D0-B57F-7A3C-TCategory
Fiction- Collections
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- +A Harlequinade Let Loose
Work - 5166 - 1912 (Release)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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