Charlot is content with him

Charlot is content with him (Kid car races At Venice) is a burlesque comedy with Charles Chaplin, left in 1914.

Data sheet

Title: Charlot is content with him
original Titer: Kid car races At Venice
Realization: Henry Lehrman
Production: The Keystone Film Company
Country of origin: the United States
Format: Black and white - Silent film
Kind: Burlesque comedy
Length: 190 meters
Lasted: 7 minutes
Coming out date: February 7th 1914

Distribution

Charles Chaplin: Charlot
Henry Lehrman: the realizer
Franck D.Williams: the cameraman
Gordon Griffith: a kid
Billy Jacobs: a kid
Charlotte Fitzpatrick: a girl
Thelma Selters: a gamine

Synopsis

Charlot, which apparraît here for the first time, goes to a race of baby-cart in Venice to California. It will cause many concern with the participants and the organizers. There is no scenario. The film was made in one hour on the place of a true local race and turns around a team of turning which wants to film the event, and a character, Charlot, a spectator who tries to assert themselves in front of the camera and are made rabrouer by the realizer.

Anecdotes

Chaplin would have, seems it, decided of its disguise at the time of the preparing. He wanted a costume contrasted: small hat and large shoes, too full pants and too narrow jacket. The costume created the character: the tie with a dirty collar of shirt will remain the symbol of the vagrant who seeks to give himself the appearance of respectability. However the aspect of the character is rather different from what will be the final face of Charlot , which will be obtained by a thick make-up attenuating the hardness of the face of Chaplin.

External bonds

http://www.cinemotions.com/modules/Films/fiche/16956/Charlot-est-content-de-lui.html
http://www.aubonticket.com/v4/Charlot-est-content-de-lui-f2171.xml

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