Tilly in a Boarding House
About Tilly in a Boarding House
Tilly (Alma Taylor) and Sally (Chrissie White) play tennis, then take piggy-back rides from the boys. The matron locks them in their room. They get out, dress in boys' clothes, and set the boarding house off on a round of pranks and a chase.
Cast & crew
More about Tilly in a Boarding House
Hay Plumb directed this Tilly short for Hepworth. The British release was September 1912.
Themes
Making
Plumb, not Fitzhamon, directed this entry. The joke turns on the two girls passing as boys inside the house.
Preservation
Italian filmography treated the negative as destroyed with Hepworth's 1924 silver melt. A print is on the Internet Archive.
Notes
- Taylor and White made about twenty Tilly and Sally shorts between 1910 and 1915.
- An Italian catalogue lists the length as 160 meters.
- White left starring roles in the mid-1920s and returned only a couple of times in the 1930s.
Scenes
- The matron locks Tilly and Sally in after the piggy-back rides.
- They come back downstairs dressed as boys and start the chase.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-tilly-in-a-boarding-house)
