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Very disappointing...

I'll tell you why so serious

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Blistering performances.

This film is one that is a good example of the one-gag films early filmmakers were making. These early films featured a gag that was never relatively funny, but for an early film audiences were entertained as it was better than seeing workers leaving a factory or a train arriving. I'm guessing though that by the time this film was made these early gag films were out of style, and so a film like this would've worked better if it had been made years earlier, say in 1899 or even earlier.The film is all about some people, two women and a man, going on a picnic. One of the women is in love with the man so they hatch a plot to steal away from their companion so the two can make out. Where do they go to? Read the title.While the gag this film has is at least original, this movie was made at too late a time in filmmaking to be of any interest. This was after "The Great Train Robbery" , "A Trip to the Moon" and Hepworth's own "Rescued by Rover". It could be possible that this movie is fragmentary and the fat lady found out what they were up to...who knows?

Three people are having a picnic are together but it is very clear that the young man and woman are eager to steal away from their companion to, err, appreciate nature.It sounds like a setup for a punch-line and the short running time suggested to me that this is just what it would be and it is what it looks like it is going to be. So imagine my disappointment (go on, imagine it) when the film ends with nothing of note having happened. The couple move away from their companion when she lies down for a nap; that's your lot – thanks for coming. It is weird because a lot of the Hepworth films have elements of comedy in there and this one just had nothing at all. Historically I doubt it has any cinematic value other than being from the Hepworth company because there doesn't appear to be anything being tried or experimented with either.Not sure what happened with this one to make it of no interest or why anyone bothered to make it but other than being a short film from a famous character in UK silent cinema history, this is of no real value.

This one doesn't work very well, even considering its era. The whole film is only there to set up one gag, but it's not even a very good gag, and it's not carried out very well either. You always want to be charitable in evaluating these earliest films, because they did not usually have a lot to work with, and because almost everything they did was new at the time. But "The Other Side of the Hedge" comes across as routine and rather sloppy even by the standards of the era. Most other Hepworth-produced films had much more energy and creativity than this one does.

Made around the same time as the excellent 'Rescued by Rover' this is a lame example of the one joke fodor that was being mass produced at the time. Little time or thought went into either the setting up, or the execution of the punchline and the film as a whole has little of interest to the student of film.