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Chaplin's Essanay comedies. Volume two / Kino International ; written and directed by Charles Chaplin ; produced by Jesse T. Robbin ; produced for video by David Shepard, Film Preservation Associates.
LIBRA VHS PN1995.9.C38 .C43 1999 vol.2
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Subjects (All):
- Tramps.
- Tramps--Drama.
- Genre:
- Short films.
- Silent films.
- Charlie Chaplin films.
- Comedy films.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (96 min.) : silent, black and white ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- Essanay comedies. Volume two
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Kino on Video, [1999, 1915]
- Language Note:
- Silent films with intertitles and musical accompanyment.
- System Details:
- VHS.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- A collection of Chaplin's films at Essanay Studios. A jitney elopment: Charlie must rescue his sweetheart from an arranged marriage by posing as the man whom she is betrothed but whom she has never seen. 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.
- Contents:
- A jitney elopment (April 1, 1915; ca. 27 min.)
- The tramp (April 11, 1915; ca. 27 min.)
- By the sea (April 29, 1915; ca. 14 min.)
- Work (June 21, 1915; ca. 17 min.).
- Participant:
- Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, G.M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson.
- Credits:
- Photographed by Harry Ensign ; music by Robert Israel (The tramp, Work), Eric James (A jitney elopment, By the sea).
- Notes:
- Digitally remastered, speed corrected.
- Videocassette release of four 1915 short films.
- "Definitive editions with new musical scores and previously missing footage"--Container.
- "Restored film and special contents by Film Preservation Associates."--Film.
- Contains:
- Jitney elopment.
- Tramp.
- By the sea.
- Work.
- OCLC:
- 42677666
- Publisher Number:
- 738329033132
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