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Dir: Charles Chaplin

A father takes his family for an outing, which turns out to be a ridiculous trial.

Dir: Charles Chaplin

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of City Lights perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a blind flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.

Dir: Charles Chaplin

There is no real plot in this little short, who was made only as a wedding present for Lord and Lady Mountbatten. The main plot line is that Lady Mountbatten has a valuable pearl necklace, which a very large number of crooks wants to steal. Charlie Chaplin, even though he is wearing his tramp costume, is called to hunt the crooks, which he does with a wooden hammer, which appears suddenly in his hand. Then the unconscious crooks are all lined up on the lawn, close to Jackie Coogan, who was, at the beginning of the film, hidden there under a blanket, for no apparent reason whatsoever!!

Dir: Charles Chaplin

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Nice and Friendly perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A kept woman runs into her former fiancé and finds herself torn between love and comfort.

Dir: Charles Chaplin

The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put their relationship in jeopardy.

Dir: Charles Chaplin

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Disguised as a priest, an escaped convict makes his way to Texas. He ends up in a small rural town where the townsfolk mistake him for their new church minister.

Dir: Charles Chaplin

The Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus.

Dir: Charles Chaplin

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Kid perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A prospector goes to the Klondike during the 1890s gold rush in hopes of making his fortune, and is smitten with a girl he sees in a dance hall.

Dir: Charles Chaplin

A tramp sneaks into a upper class golf resort. The tramp meets a rich woman who is having an argument with her drunken husband. Complications arise when she mistakes the tramp for her husband.

Dir: Charles Chaplin

Charlie works on a farm from 4am to late at night. He gets his food on the run (milking a cow into his coffee, holding an chicken over the frying pan to get fried eggs). He loves the neighbor's daughter Edna but is disliked by her father. He rides a cow into a stream and is kicked off. Unconscious, he dreams of a nymph dance. Back in reality a city slicker is hurt in a car crash and is being cared for by Edna. When Charlie is rejected after attempting to imitate the slicker, the result is ambiguous--either tragic or a happy ending. Critics have long argued as to whether the final scene is real or a dream.