Lone Fisherman

Long before the days of You've been framed and Candid Camera, someone in the Edison company had the brilliant idea that staging of practical jokes on unsuspecting victims and the filming of the proceedings and reaction would make for great comic entertainment. And they were right, in this offering, wherby the fisherman sitting on the plank out over the riverbank falls victim to the fulcrum effect when a joker sneaks up and removes the stone weighing down the other end of the plank. Of course, like all such opportune clips, the excessive padding on either side of the actual focal event contribute little extra to the entertainment value of the piece, as in this piece when a couple passing in a cart stop to join in, in laughing at the unfortunate victim