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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Italic title Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use British English Diving Lucy is a 1903 British silent comedy film produced by Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon.

Plot

A policeman is alerted to a pair of female legs protruding from the surface of a pond. He attempts to rescue the woman, but discovers that the legs are fake, with a sign saying "RATS" at the bottom. He then falls in the lake himself.

Production

Diving Lucy was filmed at the boating lake in Queen's Park, Blackburn.Шаблон:Sfn

Reception

The film was the most successful Mitchell & Kenyon film.Шаблон:Sfn A reviewer in The Talking Machine News described it as a "decided novelty", concluding "we do not remember seeing anything similar before".Шаблон:Sfn It was also released in America in February 1904, where the Biograph Company advertised it as "the biggest English comedy hit of the year".Шаблон:Sfn Alongside Bio-graph, the film was also distributed by the Edison Manufacturing Company.Шаблон:Sfn

Legacy

The popularity of Diving Lucy prompted director Frank Mottershaw to copy the film's premise in a 1907 production entitled Sold Again.Шаблон:Sfn In this version, the policeman is not explicitly portrayed as the victim of a practical joke, and the film ends with him being hit by snowballs, rather than falling into the water himself.Шаблон:Sfn

A copy of the film survives in the Cinema Museum in London, along with 64 other Mitchell & Kenyon fiction films.[1] It is included as a bonus feature on the American version of the DVD collection Electric Edwardians: The Lost Films of Mitchell & Kenyon, released in 2006 by Milestone Films.[2]

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