A man at the beach starts taking pictures of pretty girls until his wife drags him home. He escapes and resumes his picture-taking... until he is arrested as a spy.
This Hepworth Studio comedy from 1912 tries for some subtext with its implication of paranoia about Germany two years before the First World War. However, it is exceedingly primitive, both in its acting and simplicity of construction, about half a dozen years behind the times. Much of it consists of a simple chase, although the way the chase is shot, emphasizing the handsome landscape around the shore by means of very long takes, makes it different from the sort of chase comedies being produced on the Continent and America.