The following audio excerpt is from an interview with distributor Mo Rothman, who partnered with Charlie Chaplin to rerelease his feature films, starting with THE KID in 1972. The interview was recorded by Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance in 1998.
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.