Grandma's Reading Glass (1900)

A girl looks through glasses at various objects, seen magnified.

Director:

George Albert Smith

Stars:

Harold Smith

Cast

Credited cast:
Harold Smith	...	Willy - the little grandson

Storyline

A child borrows her grandmother's magnifying glass to look at a newspaper ad for Bovril, at a watch, and then at a bird. The child shows grandma what she's doing. The child looks next at grandma's eye, then at a kitten.

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Plot Keywords:

eye | kitten | grandmother | magnifying glass | bird | 

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Genres:

Short

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Details

Country:

UK

Release Date:

November 1900 (UK)

Also Known As:

A nagymama nagyítója

Filming Locations:

Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, England, UK

Company Credits

Production Co:

George Albert Smith Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

2 min

Sound Mix:

Silent

Color:

Black and White

Did You Know?

Connections

Featured in 100 Years at the Movies (1994)

User Reviews

sweet little film for 1900, but an amazingly dull curio when seen today

This is one of those dull little films that impressed audiences in the 1890s but today seems very dull and dated. Grandma and her grandson are using her magnifying glass to look at stuff. They look at each other and they look at the cat. Nothing particularly interesting or compelling. It just goes to show you that life in the "Gay 90s" must have been pretty boring!! Today, despite the film's brevity, I can't imagine anyone but a die-hard Cinephile enjoying this clip. I am a history teacher and film lover, but I STILL found this pretty tedious and uninspiring. At the same time this dull stuff was being made, the French director/actor/producer Georges Méliès was making some very innovative films with actual plots, sets and amazing camera tricks. Seek out his stuff instead.