Hide and Seek
About Hide and Seek
A banker's granddaughter plays hide-and-seek with her mother, Mabel. Mabel walks off. The child hides in the vault. A clerk, watching the clock, shuts the door without seeing her. Mabel, who does not know where the child went, decides she is inside and calls for help. The rescue is played as a comedy.
Cast & crew
More about Hide and Seek
Mack Sennett directed this 1913 short. Mabel Normand plays the mother. Ford Sterling is in the cast. Wikidata gives six minutes.
Themes
Preservation
A copy is on the Internet Archive.
Notes
- The joke is the closed vault and the mother's certainty that the child is in it.
- A copy is on the Internet Archive as silent-hide-and-seek.
- Other films share the title. This one is the 1913 Sennett short.
Scenes
- The clerk closes the vault while the child is inside.
- Mabel raises the alarm and the rescue turns comic.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-hide-and-seek)
