The following video essay by Charlie Chaplin scholar Lisa Haven, on THE KID actor Jackie Coogan, was produced in 2015.
In the following program, produced in 2015, silent-film specialist Ben Model looks at how Charlie Chaplin used the difference between filming and projecting speeds to create unique gags that could only exist in silent cinema.
This brief footage shows Charlie Chaplin conducting his newly composed score for THE KID in 1971.
THE KID was initially released in 1921, as part of Charlie Chaplin’s eight-picture deal with First National Exhibitors Circuit. When Chaplin revisited the film in 1971, he removed three scenes featuring “the Woman,” played by Edna Purviance. Those scenes are presented here, within the context of ...