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Tilly and the Fire Engines
(1911) England
B&W : Short film
Directed by Lewin Fitzhamon
Cast: Alma Taylor [Tilly], Chrissie White [Sally], Frank Denton [their uncle]
Hepworth Film Manufacturing Company production; distributed by Hepworth Film Manufacturing Company. / Produced by Cecil M. Hepworth. Scenario by Lewin Fitzhamon. / Released September 1911. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released in the USA by National Film Distributing Company on 15 February 1912, in a split-reel with Cigars or Nuts (1912). The film was rereleased in the United Kingdom by Hepworth Film Manufacturing Company in 1915.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Tillie and her girl chum see their old gardener burning brush in the garden and they jump on their bicycles and ride to the fire-engine house and give the alarm. When the hose-cart is left before the house the girls climb to the driver’s seat and make off with the apparatus. Their experience is a wild one and they have a high old time, running into several things and nearly over many folk. At last when closely pursued they uncouple the hose, hitch it to a hydrant and play the water on the unfortunates.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: (unknown) [United Kingdom]; Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 21 March 2023.
References: Website-IMDb.
Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.
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