O’Hanlon supposes Box Hill picnic must be a combination of informality and gentility. Servants carry amenities for a regiment so that Emma, Knightley, et al. sits on a sparkling white cloth (with cushions, of course) drinking wine in crystal goblets, served by staff. A roast turkey or capon is propped on the cloth, uncarved and uneaten. (Perhaps forgotten.) But there are fruits and bread and cakes, even strawberries are eaten from white linen napkins.
There is food served by staff, chatting until Emma insults Miss Bates—and the picnic effectively ends.
The cast: Romola Garai as Emma Woodhouse; Johnny Lee Miller as George Knightley; Rupert Evans as Frank Churchill; Louise Dylan as Harriet Smith; Michael Gambon as Mr. Woodhouse; Christina Cole as Mrs. Elton; Laura Pyper as Jane Fairfax.
See Jim O’Hanlon Emma (2009). The screenplay is by Sandy Welch and is based on Jane Austen’s novel.