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Chaplin's Essanay comedies. Volume 3 / written and directed by Charles Chaplin ; produced by Jesse T. Robbins.
LIBRA DVD 004 410
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Charlie Chaplin films.
- Tramps--Drama.
- Tramps.
- Genre:
- Silent films.
- Short films.
- Comedy films.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (131 min.) : silent, black and white and color tinted ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition:
- Digitally remastered version, speed corrected.
- Place of Publication:
- Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment [distributor], [1999]
- Language Note:
- Silent films with intertitles and musical accompaniment.
- System Details:
- DVD.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- A collection of Chaplin's films at Essanay Studios. Shanghaied: Hired to shanghai a crew, Chaplin is himself shanghaied and becomes assistant cook aboard a rolling boat. A Night in the show: Chaplin appears in a dual role as a playboy seated in the orchestra and as an obnoxious workman on a night out seated in the balcony. The latter closes the theater down by turning a fire hose on the fire-eating act. Police: The Tramp released from prison meets a former cell-mate and sets out to rob the home of a young woman. Charlie Chaplin's Burlesque on Carmen: Parody of the popular Cecil B. DeMille film Carmen. Triple trouble: Charlie works in the home of an eccentric inventor from whom some German spies are attempting to obtain a formula.
- Contents:
- Shanghaied (1915, aka. Charlie Shanghaied, Charlie on the ocean, Charlie the sailor)
- A Night in the show (1915, aka. Charlie at the show, Night at the show)
- Police "Complete version" (1915, aka. Charlie in the police, Charlie the burglar, Housebreaker)
- Charlie Chaplin's Burlesque on Carmen "Two reel version" (1915)
- Triple trouble (1918, aka. Charlie's triple trouble)
- Participant:
- Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Wesley Ruggles, Charlotte Mineau, Leo White, Ben Turpin, Bud Jamison, Billy Armstrong, Snub Pollard.
- Credits:
- Photographed by Harry Ensign ; music by Robert Israel and Eric James ; produced for video by David Shepard.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of five short films originally produced by Essanay Film Manufacturing Co. between 1915 and 1918.
- Restored film and special contents by Film Preservation Associates.
- Contains:
- Shanghaied.
- Charlie Shanghaied.
- Charlie on the ocean.
- Charlie the sailor.
- Night in the show.
- Charlie at the show.
- Night at the show.
- Police.
- Charlie in the police.
- Charlie the burglar.
- Housebreaker.
- Charlie Chaplin's Burlesque on Carmen.
- Burlesque on Carmen.
- Triple trouble.
- Charlie's triple trouble.
- OCLC:
- 42680823
- Publisher Number:
- ID5415SDVD Image Entertainment
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