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Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star
The Kid • 19m
The following video essay by Charlie Chaplin scholar Lisa Haven, on THE KID actor Jackie Coogan, was produced in 2015.
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A Study in Undercranking
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.
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Charlie Chaplin Conducts THE KID
This brief footage shows Charlie Chaplin conducting his newly composed score for THE KID in 1971.
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Outtakes From the 1921 Version of THE...
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 ...
