Comic Face
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About Comic Face
Tom Green, playing an old man, drinks a glass of beer in one shot aimed at the camera. His face and hands grow livelier as he drinks. He finishes by cocking a snook and holding the gesture.
Cast & crew
More about Comic Face
George Albert Smith produced and directed the film and also photographed it. It is also called Old Man Drinking a Glass of Beer and Comic Faces.
Themes
Look
Smith filmed Green in a single shot, close enough for the face and hands to read.
Notes
- The English Wikipedia title is Old Man Drinking a Glass of Beer.
- Bryony Dixon, writing for the BFI, called Green's turn a facial: a direct-to-camera piece of changing expressions.
Scenes
- Green cocks a snook at the lens and keeps drinking.
