The Beggar's Deceit
1900 British film
- November 1900 (1900-11) (UK)
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The Beggar's Deceit is a 1900 British short film directed by Cecil Hepworth. The film is a comedy sketch shot from a static camera position, with the composition divided into thirds: on the left the beggar, in the centre the pavement and pedestrians, and to the right the road and vehicle traffic.
Synopsis
A legless beggar with a sign around his neck saying "cripple" pushes himself slowly and laboriously on a trolley along the pavement, soliciting alms from sympathetic passers-by. A policeman gradually approaches from the distance. Feeling suspicious, he taps the beggar on the shoulder, whereupon the beggar leaps up in a panic and runs away on his perfectly functional legs. The policeman trips over the trolley before recovering his footing and setting off in pursuit.[2]
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Films directed by Cecil Hepworth
- The Egg-Laying Man (1897)
- The Beggar's Deceit (1900)
- How It Feels to Be Run Over (1900)
- Explosion of a Motor Car (1900)
- Alice in Wonderland (1903)
- A Day in the Hayfields (1904)
- Rescued by Rover (1905)
- Baby's Toilet (1905)
- The Cloister and the Hearth (1913)
- The Baby on the Barge (1915)
- The Man Who Stayed at Home (1915)
- Annie Laurie (1916)
- Molly Bawn (1916)
- The Marriage of William Ashe (1916)
- Trelawny of the Wells (1916)
- The Cobweb (1917)
- The American Heiress (1917)
- The Refugee (1918)
- Broken in the Wars (1919)
- The Forest on the Hill (1919)
- The Nature of the Beast (1919)
- Anna the Adventuress (1920)
- Helen of Four Gates (1920)
- The Narrow Valley (1921)
- Tansy (1921)
- The Tinted Venus (1921)
- Wild Heather (1921)
- Comin' Thro the Rye (1923)
- Strangling Threads (1923)
- Mist in the Valley (1923)
- The House of Marney (1927)
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