The Twins' Tea Party

The Twins' Tea Party is an 1896 British short silent actuality film, produced and directed by Robert W. Paul.

The film "was one of the very first 'facials'," which according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline was "a popular genre in early British cinema that exploited what to 1896 audiences was the astonishing novelty of being able to see moving images of recognisable people in medium close-up as they reacted to a particular situation.

"[1] John Barnes, author of The Beginnings of the Cinema in England, adds that "this charming one-shot film of two infant girls reluctantly sharing tea was one of the most popular items exhibited in R.W.

The film features twin girls squabbling over a piece of cake at a tea party.

A review in The Era stated: "The droll gestures of two children at a nursery tea-party evoke much merriment.