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{{short description|1898 film by Robert W. Paul}}
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{{Use British English|date=June 2016}}
{{Infobox film
| name           = Tommy Atkins in the Park
| image          = TommyAtkinsinthePark.jpg
| caption        = Screenshot from the film
| director       = [[Robert W. Paul]]
| producer       = Robert W. Paul
| writer         =
| narrator       =
| starring       =
| music          =
| cinematography = Robert W. Paul
| editing        =
| studio         = Paul's Animatograph Works
| distributor    =
| released       = {{film date|df=yes|1898|8|}}
| runtime        = 47 secs
| country        = United Kingdom
| language       = [[Silent film|Silent]]
| budget         =
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'''''Tommy Atkins in the Park''''' is an [[1898 in film|1898]] [[UK|British]] [[Short subject|short]] [[black-and-white film|black-and-white]] [[silent film|silent]] [[comedy film]], directed by [[Robert W. Paul]], featuring a couple courting in a park who are forced to use desperate measures to get rid of a stout matron who interrupts them. The film was a remake of [[Alfred Moul]]'s ''The Soldier's Courtship'' (1896). It is included on the BFI DVD ''R.W. Paul: The Collected Films 1895-1908'' and a clip is featured in [[Paul Merton]]'s interactive guide to early British silent comedy ''How They Laughed'' on the BFI website.<ref name="BFIso01">{{cite web |title=Tommy Atkins in the Park |first=Michael |last=Brooke |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/727290/ |work=BFI Screenonline |date= |accessdate=2011-04-24}}</ref><ref name="BFIdb01">{{cite web |title=Tommy Atkins in the Park |first= |last= |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/54735 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023232502/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/54735 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-10-23 |work=BFI Film & TV Database |date= |accessdate=2011-04-24}}</ref><ref name="BFIig01">{{cite web |title=How They Laughed |first=Paul |last=Merton |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/444555/index.html |work=BFI Screenonline |date= |accessdate=2011-04-24}}</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|id=0295663|title=Tommy Atkins in the Park}}
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[[Category:British black-and-white films]]
[[Category:British silent short films]]
[[Category:British comedy short films]]
[[Category:1898 comedy films]]
[[Category:1898 films]]
[[Category:1898 short films]]
[[Category:1890s British films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Robert W. Paul]]
[[Category:Silent British comedy films]]
[[Category:Films set in parks]]
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