The Waif and the Wizard [SEP] director
The Waif and the Wizard
The Waif and the Wizard, also entitled The Home Made Happy, is a 1901 British short silent comedy film, directed by Walter R. Booth, featuring a magician using his magic to aid an ailing girl at the request of her brother. The film, "is rather less elaborate in terms of special effects than the other films that W.R. Booth and R.W. Paul made the same year," but according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "provides an excellent illustration of how effects used sparingly
, a beautiful child named Twinkle, and their fire demon Calcifer. One of the messes Twinkle gets Charmain into results in Twinkle climbing onto the roof of the Royal Mansion.
She is soon involved in curing the kingdom of its ills and rediscovering the long-lost Elfgift.
Main characters.
- Charmain Baker
- Peter Regis
- Royal Wizard Norland
- Sophie Pendragon
- Wizard Howl
- Calcifer
- Morgan
- Waif
- King Adolphus X
- Princess Hilda
- Lubbock