Summer Boarders (1900 1919)

Pinewood Stock Cans material Early silent feature film the Summer Boarders about unwanted guests arriving to stay at a guest house for the summer. V10272 Paper records state that this is an early comedy film called Summer Boarders. Countryside exterior. Upper class family in their Sunday Best walk along a country track following a lower class man who pushes a wheelbarrow. The barrow is full of the family s luggage. The father wipes his hot face with a handkerchief and berates his family. The working man tips over the barrow and the luggage falls out. The family climb the stairs of a house bearing the sign Boarders Suddenly a man is chased down the steps by an irate woman bearing a broom the maid presumably. Everyone runs around a bit. The family sit on the steps then get covered in dust when the maid comes outside again and shakes a dusty rug over them. The family look cross. The maid sweeps the steps with her broom more dust. She then throws water on the s