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Chaplin's Essanay comedies. Volume 2 / written and directed by Charles Chaplin ; produced by Jesse T. Robbins.
LIBRA DVD 004 409
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Subjects (All):
- Charlie Chaplin films.
- Tramps--Drama.
- Tramps.
- Genre:
- Silent films.
- Short films.
- Comedy films.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (135 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. The tramp: Charlie saves a farmer's daughter from some thieving toughs, but soon learns that her heart belongs to another. By the sea: Charlie's stroll by the sea finds him making enemies with a drunk, a husband and the police. Work: Charlie plays a paper hanger's assistant who is hired to paper a home where peace is replaced with anarchy, culminating with a massive explosion. A Woman: Charlie disguises himself as a woman in order to be near Edna after her father has forbidden her to see him. The Bank: Charlie, the janitor loves Edna, the pretty bank secretary, but her sweetheart is another Charles, the cashier. His regeneration: Chaplin makes a guest appearance in this "Broncho Billy" Anderson drama, as the tramp in a dance hall sequence.
- Contents:
- The tramp (aka. Charlie on the farm, Charlie the hobo, Charlie the tramp)
- By the sea (aka. Charlie by the sea, Charlie's day out)
- Work (aka. Charlie at work, Charlie the decorator, Only a working man, The Paperhanger, the plumber)
- A Woman (aka. Charlie the perfect lady, The perfect lady)
- The Bank (aka. Charlie detective, Charlie at the bank, Charlie in the bank)
- His regeneration.
- Participant:
- Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Fred Goodwins, Lloyd Bacon, Billy Armstrong, Bud Jamison, Leo White, Margie Reiger, Marta Golden, Carl Stockdale, Charles Inslee, G. M. Anderson.
- Credits:
- Photographed by Harry Ensign ; music by Robert Israel and Eric James ; produced for video by David Shepard.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of six short films originally produced by Essanay Film Manufacturing Co. in 1915.
- Restored film and special contents by Film Preservation Associates.
- Contains:
- Tramp.
- By the sea.
- Work.
- Woman.
- Bank.
- His regeneration.
- Charlie on the farm.
- Charlie the hobo.
- Charlie the tramp.
- Charlie by the sea.
- Charlie's day out.
- Charlie at work.
- Charlie the decorator.
- Charlie the perfect lady.
- Charlie detective.
- Charlie at the bank.
- Charlie in the bank.
- OCLC:
- 249387523
- Publisher Number:
- ID5414SDVD Image Entertainment
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