| Bunny as a Reporter | |
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| Directed by | Wilfrid North |
| Written by | Beta Breuil |
| Starring | John Bunny Flora Finch |
| Distributed by | Vitagraph |
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Running time | 728 ft [1] |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent English intertitles |
Bunny as a Reporter is an American silent comedy film.
Bunny, an amateur reporter, wants to impress the editor of a small-town newspaper, so he disguises himself as a woman and infiltrates a secret suffragette meeting.
Bunny as a Reporter was released on June 3, 1913, in the United States, where it was presented as a split-reel with another Vitagraph comedy, Three to One. It was released in London September 18, 1913. [1]
Emily Wilding Davison was an English suffragette who fought for votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and a militant fighter for her cause, she was arrested on nine occasions, went on hunger strike seven times and was force-fed on forty-nine occasions. She died after being hit by King George V's horse Anmer at the 1913 Derby when she walked onto the track during the race.
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Suffrajitsu is a term used to describe the application of martial arts or self-defence techniques by members of the Women's Social and Political Union during 1913/14. The term derives from a portmanteau of suffragette and jiu-jitsu and was first coined by an anonymous English journalist during March 1914.
Suffragettes in Great Britain and Ireland orchestrated a bombing and arson campaign between the years 1912 and 1914. The campaign was instigated by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), and was a part of their wider campaign for women's suffrage. The campaign, led by key WSPU figures such as Emmeline Pankhurst, targeted infrastructure, government, churches and the general public, and saw the use of improvised explosive devices, arson, letter bombs, assassination attempts and other forms of direct action and violence.
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