The Extraordinary Waiter

The Extraordinary Waiter
Screenshot from the film
Directed by	Walter R. Booth
Produced by	Robert W. Paul
Production company	Paul's Animatograph Works
Release dates	December 1902
Running time	1 minute 16 secs
Country	United Kingdom
Language	Silent

The Extraordinary Waiter (AKA: Diner and Waiter Comic) is a 1902 British short silent comedy film, directed by Walter R. Booth, featuring a brutish colonialist failing to destroy a blackfaced waiter. The film, "makes for somewhat uncomfortable viewing," but according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "it's just about possible to read this as a metaphor for the rather more widespread frustrations arising from British colonial rule (the Boer War was still a current issue), though it seems unlikely that this was intentional on Booth's part."^[1]

References

1. Brooke, Michael. "The Extraordinary Waiter". BFI Screenonline Database. Retrieved 2011-04-24.

External links

• The Extraordinary Waiter at the Internet Movie Database