Grandma Threading her Needle (1900)

Original title

Grandma Threading Her Needle

Directed by

George Albert Smith

Genre

silent film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1 min

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An old woman tries to thread a needle. The short film is a single shot that captures her changing facial expressions for entertainment.

amusinglightheartedclose-upplayfulsimplefocusedwhimsical

What happens

Grandma Threading her Needle is a 1900 British short silent comedy film, directed by George Albert Smith, featuring an old woman trying to get a thread though a needle. The sole purpose of the 56-second single-shot film, like the director's earlier Old Man Drinking a Glass of Beer (1898), according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "is to record changing facial expressions for the purposes of entertainment." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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