User:Andrew Gray/Tilly

The "Tilly" series was a set of slapstick silent films produced between 1910 and 1915 by Cecil Hepworth of Hepworth Pictures. They starred two young women (the "Tilly Sisters" or "Tilly Girls") who would behave outrageously, getting into complicated and anarchic adventures, and playing sometimes violent pranks on adults around them. The stars, Alma Taylor and Chrissie White, would go on to be very prominent figures in 1920s British cinema. Two of the films, and a fragment of the third, survive today.

(general critical commentary - still to add) - links to suffragism? - cast notes (nb More in first film)

http://amsacta.unibo.it/3821/1/27_PORTER.pdf

https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=NHiCiLUC9JsC&oi=fnd&pg=PP2&dq=%22Tilly+girls%22&ots=PYz6wcbUWe&sig=ISk_JrozmSY45qjuyxvFJPmTMxg#v=onepage&q=Tilly&f=false

Titles

 * Tilly the Tomboy Plays Truant (Aug. 1910)
 * Tilly the Tomboy Visits the Poor (Sep. 1910)
 * Tilly the Tomboy Goes Boating (Sep. 1910)
 * Tilly the Tomboy Buys Linoleum (Nov. 1910)
 * Tilly at the Election (Dec. 1910)
 * Tilly's Unsympathetic Uncle (Feb. 1911)
 * When Tilly's Uncle Flirted (Mar. 1911)
 * Tilly's Party (Apr. 1911)
 * Tilly at the Seaside (May 1911)
 * Tilly the Matchmaker (Jun. 1911)
 * Tilly and the Mormon Missionary (Aug. 1911)
 * Tilly and the Fire Engines (Sep. 1911)
 * Tilly and the Smugglers (Dec. 1911)
 * Tilly and the Dogs (Mar. 1912)
 * Tilly Works for a Living (May 1912)
 * Tilly in a Boarding House (Sep. 1912)
 * Tilly's Breaking-Up Party (May 1913)
 * Tilly at the Football Match (Dec. 1914)
 * Tilly and the Nut (Mar. 1915)

Those marked in bold survive, at least in part, and can be watched via the British Film Institute.