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

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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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.

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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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