- Director: Frederick S. Armitage
- Year: 1901
- Starring: Anna Held
- Runtime: 5m
Mr Frederick S. Armitage is back here with another experiment, this time a medium close up shot of stage star Anna Held playing off of her famous scene in Papa's Wife where she gets tipsy on champagne.
There is not a whole lot to it—just a woman drinking—and yet it is captivating. She's bold and fluid with expressive eyes and she genuinely looks like she's having the time of her life.
However, I do suspect that this is not, in fact, her first champagne.
A big part of this effect is because we don't have a vocabulary of cinema at this point and actors still performed as if they're on the stage which gives them this extra zany quality under the microscope of the movie lens.
It does make them seem like they're having an extraordinarily good time, though. One can image if Held and Méliès were in the same room, it would be quite the party.