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The Biter Bit(Movie, 1900)

1min | Genre: Comedy
The Biter BitRating: 2.7/5 (with 66 votes)
The Biter Bit is an 1899 British short black-and-white silent comedy film, produced by Bamforth & Co Ltd, featuring a boy playing a practical joke on a gardener by grasping his hose to stop the water flow and then letting go when the gardener looks down it to check. The film "is an English remake" of Auguste and Louis Lumière's L'Arroseur Arrosé (1895), according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "providing a good illustration of how early film production companies cheerfully plagiarised each other's work" with "a few minor differences between, most notably a rather greater sense of space and depth in the Bamforth version" and "three distinct planes to the action". It is included in the BFI DVD Early Cinema: Primitives and Pioneers and a clip is used in Paul Merton's interactive guide to early British silent comedy How They Laughed on the BFI website. ()
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About The Biter Bit

A gardener is watering a garden. A prankster stands on his hose halting the flow until he looks at the nozzle and gets a stream of water to the face. He notices the prankster and gives him his comeuppance. Remake of the Lumiere film Arroseur et arrosé.

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Additional Information

Production country: United Kingdom (UK)
Original language: English (EN)
Translated into 1 language: English (EN)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 01/01/1900
Director: James Bamforth
Producer: Bamforth & Co Ltd
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"A Joke on the Gardener"
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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