This documentary on the work of the silent screen's greatest comedian features excerpts from a number of Charlie Chaplin's...
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1969
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A video compilation of cutting-room-floor footage from the works of Charles Chaplin. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. narrates. ~ Rovi...
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1967
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This is one in a series of entertaining cinematic compilations by Robert Youngson that reviews aspects of the history of film...
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1961
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Robert Youngson's second feature-length compilation of silent comedy highlights (the first was The Golden Age of Comedy),...
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1959
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The first of documentary producer Robert Youngson's feature-length silent comedy compilations, The Golden Age of Comedy began...
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1958
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This film is comprised of extracts from several Charlie Chaplin silent shorts made around 1915, including The Bank,...
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1951
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Down Memory Lane is a pastiche film comprised of old comedy footage from the Mack Sennett studios. The vintage clips are tied...
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1949
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Cross-eyed Plumber
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1940
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Hollywood Cavalcade was a fictionalized history of silent films and the growth of the movie industry. Don Ameche portrays a...
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1939
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The Movies March On was Number 12, volume 9 of Louis de Rochemont's March of Time series. Narrated by the stentorian...
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1939
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1935
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"Klopstokia: A Far-Away Country. Chief Exports: Goats and Nuts. Chief Imports: Goats and Nuts. Chief Inhabitants: Goats and...
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1932
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1932
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Joan Blondell, borrowed for the occasion from Warner Bros., earned top-billing in this delightful Hollywood parable, but the...
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Ben
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1932
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Oliver Hardy finds that getting married is more difficult than he had planned in this two-reeler. It starts off with partner...
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1931
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1931
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Bill Harper (Will Rogers), a cattle baron turned diplomat, is assigned to the middle European country of Sylvania, which is...
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1931
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Advertised as an "all star" film, Swing High is hardly that: The biggest name in the picture, both in terms of popularity and...
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1930
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Basically a filmed vaudeville presentation, The Show of Shows was Warner Bros.' entry in the "all star, all talking, all...
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1929
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Director Ernst Lubitsch's first talking picture, The Love Parade was a witty souffle about a royal "marriage of state."...
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1929
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1928
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1928
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The basic plot of Wife's Relations involves the romance between heroine Shirley Mason and erstwhile inventor Gaston Glass....
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1928
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1928
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1928
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1927
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1927
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1927
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During the latter half of the 1920s, Hollywood virtually flooded the theaters with films about college life. The plot to this...
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Rodney St. Clair
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1927
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1927
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1926
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During the mid-'20s, Monte Blue and Patsy Ruth Miller starred together in a number of pleasantly entertaining comedy-dramas...
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A Stranger
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1925
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This melodrama was supposedly the first to be shot on-location at an actual steel mill. Steelworker Wally Gay (William Boyd)...
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1925
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1924
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The cross-eyed comedy favorite Ben Turpin is featured in these two silent films, Ten Dollars or Ten Days (1924) and He Looked...
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1924
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1924
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1923
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1923
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Comedy producer Mack Sennett certainly couldn't let Rudolph Valentino's hit The Sheik come and go without spoofing it with...
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The 'Shiek'
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1923
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1923
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1921
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This hilarious slapstick comedy from Mack Sennett finds Sam Smith (Ben Turpin), the resident of a small town, accused of...
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Sam Smith/Samuel X. Smythe
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1921
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This anthology is comprised of several short chucklers from the King of Slapstick comedy Mack Sennett. These shorts feature...
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1921
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1920
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1920
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1920
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1919
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1919
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Instead of his usual two-reel format, Mack Sennett made a five-reel, feature-length film to spoof the recently ended World...
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1919
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1918
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1917
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Burlesque on Carmen was intended by Charlie Chaplin to be a two-reel film, but to his annoyance additional material, shot by...
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Remendado, a sumggler
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1916
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1916
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Charlie Chaplin began his new job at Essanay Studios, who lured him away from Keystone with an offer of $1250 a week plus a...
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1915
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The Champion, Chaplin's third film for Essanay, is easily one of the funniest and is his most advanced film to date in...
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1915
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1915
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1909
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