A copper pursues a cheeky beggar who can't possibly escape justice - or can he?

This clever single-shot skit combines suspense and slapstick, as a copper slowly approaches a beggar who's coining it in on an upmarket pavement. When the long arm of the law finally catches up with him, he ditches the "cripple" sign that was drawing so much sympathy and cash from well-heeled passersby, and legs it. He's remarkably quick on his feet, but his getaway seems assured when the bobby trips on the scamp's trolley. Depth of field does the storytelling work - it's simple but smart.

COMEDY. A cripple is seen laboriously propelling himself along the pavement on a little trolley, apparantly having lost the use of his legs. Passers-by respond to his plea for alms. A constable, suspecting something wrong, taps the man on the shoulder, and the beggar springs up and takes to his heels. After falling over the trolley the policeman goes off in pursuit.