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Chaplin's Essanay comedies. Volume 1 / written and directed by Charles Chaplin ; produced by Jesse T. Robbins.
LIBRA DVD 016 150 disc + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Vance, Jeffrey, 1970- author.
- Genre:
- Short films.
- Silent films.
- Charlie Chaplin films.
- Comedy films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (136 min.) : silent, black and white and color tinted ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet ([8] pages ; 19 cm)
- 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. His new job: Charlie applies for a job as an actor at a film studio. A night out: Charlie and Turpin are drunks about town, starting at a cafe and ending in a risque hotel room mix-up with a pretty girl. The Champion: Pint-sized Charlie defeats the bone-crushing champion prizefighter with the able assistance of his bulldog. In the park: Charlie interferes in the lives of two star-crossed lovers. A Jitney elopement: Charlie rescues his sweetheart from an arranged marriage by posing as Count Chloride de Lime. The film ends with a car chase featuring the Ford automobile.
- Contents:
- His new job (aka. Charlie's new job)
- A Night out (aka. Champagne Charlie, Charlie's drunken daze, Charlie's night out, His night out)
- The Champion (aka. Battling Charlie, Champion Charlie, Charlie the champion)
- In the park (aka. Charlie in the park, Charlie on the spree)
- Jitney elopement (aka. Charlie's elopement, Married in haste)
- Participant:
- Charlie Chaplin, Frank J. Coleman, Ben Turpin, Edna Purviance, Charlotte Mineau, Bud Jamison, Leo White, Lloyd Bacon, Fred Goodwins, G.M. Anderson.
- Credits:
- Photographed by Harry Ensign ; music by Robert Israel (A night out, The champion), Eric James (His new job, In the park) ; produced for video by David Shepard.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of five short films originally produced by Essanay Film Manufacturing Co. in 1915.
- Restored film and special contents by Film Preservation Associates.
- Booklet includes an essay by Jeffrey Vance.
- Contains:
- His new job.
- Night out.
- Champion.
- In the park.
- Jitney elopement.
- Charlie's new job.
- Champagne Charlie.
- Charlie's drunken daze.
- His night out.
- Battling Charlie.
- Champion Charlie.
- Charlie the champion.
- Charlie in the park.
- Charlie on the spree.
- Charlie's elopement.
- Married in haste.
- OCLC:
- 249384806
- Publisher Number:
- ID5413SDVD Image Entertainment
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