Willie's Magic Wand is a 1907 British silent comic trick film, directed by Walter R. Booth, featuring a young boy terrorising the household with his father's magic wand.
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Directed by | Walter R. Booth |
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Running time | 2 mins 45 secs extent |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | Silent |
Similar to "earlier trick films The Haunted Curiosity Shop and Undressing Extraordinary (both 1901)", this is, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "essentially a series of [loosely linked] special-effects set pieces", but "the print in the National Film and Television Archive is incomplete, omitting amongst other things a come-uppance where Willie is punished for his misdemeanours by being turned into a girl, thus depriving him of more than one magic wand".
A clip from the film is featured in Paul Merton's interactive guide to early British silent comedy How They Laughed on the BFI website.[1][2][3]
References edit
- ^ Brooke, Michael. "Willie's Magic Wand". BFI Screenonline Database. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
- ^ "Willie's Magic Wand". BFI Film & TV Database. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
- ^ Merton, Paul. "How They Laughed". BFI Screenonline. Retrieved 24 April 2011.