Running a Cinema

Running a Cinema

1921 Comedy Animation Directed by Dudley Buxton

About Running a Cinema

Dudley Buxton's 1921 British short is a comic satire of how a cinema program is put on and how the house is run.

Cast & crew

Dudley Buxton Director

More about Running a Cinema

Buxton directed the short in Britain in 1921.

Themes

A cinema making fun of itself
cinema program
satire
short film
Britain

Background

By 1921 a purpose-built cinema, with a posted program, was ordinary enough to be a comic subject.

Notes

The joke is aimed at the show itself: the program and the way the cinema operates.
No feature-length plot is attached to the title in the surviving notices.