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Film Number

8337

Title

HOUSE BUSINESS

Producer

Warrington Cine Society

Date

1937

Gauge

16mm

Colour

b/w

Sound

silent

Running Time

17 mins 28 secs

Description

A slapstick comedy film produced by Warrington Cine Society. A man arrives at a building site looking for work where men are building a house, the foreman agrees to take him on. It turns out the man is extremely clumsy and accident prone, he goes on to cause a lot of accidents and mishaps on the site. The film ends with him leaving after he accidentally blows up the house.

 

 



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