British Film Institute

This is the first extant Pimple comedy and the second title in the series, released in November 1912, after Fred Evans had left behind Cricks & Martin and his previous character, Charley Smiler. A simple chase comedy with Fred Evans as Pimple, a character of childlike simplicity with a slightly mischievous streak. He wears a check jacket, baggy, (almost) matching trousers and a cap, but, in this case, a more subtle application of his usual clown make-up. In this one-reel comedy, Pimple pursues an escaped African Black snake, but disastrously confuses it with a woman's black feather boa.

Bryony Dixon

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