Coolie Boys Diving for Coins

Coolie Boys Diving for Coins positions a scene popularised in early film generally within a distinctly colonial context As with similar films it uses attractions that as Joe Kember argued were more broadly characteristic of several early genres among them the intriguing spectacle of a chaotic flurry of limbs projected onscreen the prevailing Mischievous boy and racial stereotypes derived in part from contemporary conventions in the music halls