Discovering an infestation in a restaurant has never been as much fun as in this early trick film

Laughter and thigh slapping might not be the usual reaction on discovering your ploughman's lunch is infested with mites. But they're not all as delightful as these little fellows. Walter Booth worked as a stage magician before entering film, and combined visionary ideas and neat trickery to create impossible fantasies on screen.

TRICK. A man, sitting at a restaurant table, orders and drinks a beer. A miniature figure of a boy appears on his beer glass, then two more, a boy and a girl, appear from a large round cheese. The two boys rough and tumble together, while the man laughs heartily.