Tilly and the Fire Engines
About Tilly and the Fire Engines
Tilly (Alma Taylor) and Sally (Chrissie White) see the gardener burning brush and bicycle to the firehouse with a false alarm. When the hose cart is left in front of the house they climb into the driver's seat and take it. They clip corners and scatter people. With the firemen close behind, they uncouple the hose, hitch it to a hydrant, and turn the water on their pursuers.
Cast & crew
More about Tilly and the Fire Engines
Lewin Fitzhamon directed and wrote it. Cecil M. Hepworth produced it. Hepworth released it in Britain in September 1911 and again in 1915. National Film Distributing Company put it out in the United States on 15 February 1912, split-reeled with Cigars or Nuts. Frank Denton plays the girls' uncle.
Themes
Making
Fitzhamon stages the chase through a fairground crowd.
Preservation
A print exists. The surviving piece runs a little over three minutes.
Notes
- Alma Taylor and Chrissie White played Tilly and Sally in a run of Hepworth shorts from about 1910 to 1915.
- Taylor later starred in Hepworth's early-1920s features.
- The short is in the public domain in the United States.
Scenes
- The girls take the driver's seat of the hose cart.
- They couple the hose to a hydrant and drench the men chasing them.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-tilly-and-the-fire-engines)
