The face on the bar room floor / directed by Charlie Chaplin ; produced by Mack Sennett.

Format:

• Video

Contributor:

• Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977, director.
• Sennett, Mack, 1880-1960, producer.

Series:

• Silent film online.
• Silent film online

Language:

• English
• No linguistic content

Genre:

• Comedy films.
• Video recordings.

Physical Description:

• 1 streaming video file (12 min.) : sound, black and white.
• monochrome

Other Title:

• The ham actor
• The ham artist

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : Flicker Alley, 1914.

Language Note:

This edition silent with English intertitles and musical background.

System Details:

• Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• video file

Summary:

This comedy, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin during the period he worked at Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios, stars Cecile Arnold, Jess Dandy, and Chaplin. Chaplin plays a painter drinking in a bar because he has lost the woman he loves, a woman he often painted. Getting progressively drunker, he tries to draw her face on the floor. Many years later, he sees her again. The film is derived from a poem by the same name by Hugh Antoine D'Arcy; the poem is quoted in the film plot cards.

Notes:

• Title from title frames (Silent Film Online, viewed Apr. 4, 2014).
• Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Silent film online). Available via World Wide Web.

OCLC:

881550723

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.