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'Tom Old Boot (a grotesque dwarf)' was an 1896 French short silent film by Georges Mlis. It was sold by Mlis's Star Film Company and is film #75 in its catalogues.

Though no synopsis survives, the film appears to have captured a performance by Tom Old Boot, a small-sized entertainer, who played at Mlis's stage venue, the Thtre Robert-Houdin, as an "American dwarf" ("'nain americain'"). The magazine 'La Vie Parisienne' reported that Tom Old Boot was playing at the Robert-Houdin Theatre in late December 1895, at Thursday and Sunday matines. Reports that the performances were a great success, getting many laughs, especially from the children in the audiences. The newspaper 'Le Petit Parisien' reported on the March 1896 performances at the Robert-Houdin and called Tom Old Boot a "joyful, eccentric, dwarf comedian" ("'joyeux nain comic excentric'").

The film 'Tom Old Boot' is presumed lost.

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