Event

CHARLIE CHAPLIN SHORTS

Charlie Chaplin's Shorts!

Tuesday, July 27 at 7:30pm

$9 Members / $13 Public

Live Musical Accompaniment by BEN MODEL on the Cinemas Miditzer Theater Organ

The Mutual Film Company gave Charlie Chaplin his first true opportunity to work
with artistic freedom, and the result was a series of brilliant and hilarious masterpieces. In
The Fireman, Chaplin playes a fireman who finds himself in a hot spot when he
discovers that the Fire Chief earns extra money starting fires. In the magical One
A.M., Chaplin performs solo as a drunken man who comes home, just wanting to go
to sleep, and finds all of the objects in his house seem to be conspiring to keep him
awake. In Behind the Screen, Chaplin is a stagehand in a movie studio who rebels
against his oppressive Stage Manager, while romancing a fellow stagehand (Edna
Perviance), who has disguised herself as a man to get the job. In The Floorwalker,
Chaplin's first film for Mutual, he stars as a customer in a department store who
finds out the manager is stealing money from the store. USA, 1916, 80 min., b/w