"Over the Hedge" is a short that is a good example of the one-gag films early filmmakers were creating during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These early films featured a gag that was never relatively funny, but for an early film audiences were entertained since it was better than seeing workers leaving a factory or a train arriving. I'm guessing that by the time this film was made these early gag films were out of style, however, and so a film like this would've worked better if it had been made years earlier, say in 1899 or so.
The film is all about some people, two women and a man, going on a picnic. One of the women is in love with the man so they hatch a plot to steal away from their companion so the two can make out. Where do they go to? Read the title.
While the gag this film has is at least original, it was made at too late a time in filmmaking to be of any interest. This was after "The Great Train Robbery" , "A Trip to the Moon" and Hepworth's own "Rescued by Rover". It could be possible that the short is fragmentary and the fat lady originally found out what they were up to...who knows?
The film is all about some people, two women and a man, going on a picnic. One of the women is in love with the man so they hatch a plot to steal away from their companion so the two can make out. Where do they go to? Read the title.
While the gag this film has is at least original, it was made at too late a time in filmmaking to be of any interest. This was after "The Great Train Robbery" , "A Trip to the Moon" and Hepworth's own "Rescued by Rover". It could be possible that the short is fragmentary and the fat lady originally found out what they were up to...who knows?