Chaplin at Keystone (1914) [British Film Institute]

Stars: Charles Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin joined Mack Sennett’s Keystone Film Company in late 1913 after being seen in Fred Karno’s touring vaudeville troupe. After a few initial uneasy steps, his rise was meteoric — making 35 films in a single year, directing more than half of them, and developing his much-loved persona, the Tramp.
This stunning 4-disc set, featuring the 34 surviving Chaplin Keystone films (including the feature Tillie’s Punctured Romance), is the result of an eight-year international collaboration to reconstruct and restore the films between the BFI National Archive, Cineteca Bologna/L’Immagine Ritrovata and Lobster Films, with the cooperation of UCLA Film and Television Archive, Library of Congress, and the support of Association Chaplin.
The films in this collection are presented with new musical accompaniment by Eric Beheim, Neil Brand, Antonio Coppola, Frederick Hodges, Stephen Horne, Robert Israel, Rodney Sauer, The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, Ethan Uslan, and Ken Winokur with Tillie’s Nightmare.

Film Distributor: BFI (British Film Institute)

Disc one:
• Making a Living (Henry Lehrman, 1914)
• Kid Auto Races at Venice, Cal. (Henry Lehrman, 1914)
• Mabel’s Strange Predicament (Mabel Normand, 1914)
• Between Showers (Henry Lehrman, 1914)
• A Film Johnnie (George Nichols, 1914)
• Tango Tangles (Mack Sennett, 1914)
• His Favorite Pastime (George Nichols, 1914)
• Cruel, Cruel Love (George Nichols, 1914)
• The Star Boarder (George Nichols, 1914)
• Mabel at the Wheel (Mabel Normand & Mack Sennett, 1914)
• Twenty Minutes of Love (Joseph Maddern & Charles Chaplin, 1914)
• Caught in a Cabaret (Mabel Normand, 1914)

Disc two:
• Caught in the Rain (Charles Chaplin, 1914)
• A Busy Day (Mack Sennett, 1914)
• The Fatal Mallet (Mack Sennett, 1914)
• The Knockout (Mack Sennett, 1914)
• Mabel’s Busy Day (Mack Sennett, 1914)
• Mabel’s Married Life (Mack Sennett, 1914)
• Laughing Gas (Charles Chaplin, 1914)
• The Property Man (Charles Chaplin, 1914)
• The Face on the Barroom Floor (Charles Chaplin, 1914)
• Recreation (Charles Chaplin, 1914)

Disc three:
• The Masquerader (Charles Chaplin, 1914)
• His New Profession (Charles Chaplin, 1914)
• The Rounders (Charles Chaplin & Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, 1914)
• The New Janitor (Charles Chaplin, 1914)
• Those Love Pangs (Charles Chaplin, 1914)
• Dough and Dynamite (Charles Chaplin, 1914)
• Gentlemen of Nerve (Charles Chaplin, 1914)
• His Musical Career (Charles Chaplin, 1914)
• His Trysting Places (Charles Chaplin, 1914)

Disc four:
• Tillie’s Punctured Romance (Mack Sennett, 1914)
• Getting Acquainted (Charles Chaplin, 1914)
• His Prehistoric Past (Charles Chaplin, 1914)

Extras:
• Charlie’s White Elephant (1916, 6 min.) — an animation by John Colman Terry and Hugh Shields featuring Chaplin
• Inside the Keystone Project (2010, 10 min.) — a short documentary by Pauline Richard about international restoration efforts behind the films
• Silent Traces (2010, 12 min.) — historian John Bengston on several of the Keystone locations
• Extracts from A Thief Catcher (1914, 6 min.) — a film by Ford Sterling recently rediscovered by Paul E. Gierucki, with Chaplin as a Keystone Cop




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