What is The Kid / A Dog's Life about?

THE KID, 1921, Janus Films, 60 min. In perhaps his greatest film masterpiece, Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp, following his paternal instincts, takes a hapless, orphaned baby - "the Kid" - under his wing. Five years pass, and the tyke is now a precocious little boy (Jackie Coogan), helping his foster dad, the Tramp, in his "window glass replacement" scam. But a confluence of events, including the Kid’s sudden illness, conspire to separate the two. “A Dog's Life," (1918, Janus Films, 40 min). A literal expression of Chaplin's identification with the underdog.

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What is The Kid / A Dog's Life about?: THE KID, 1921, Janus Films, 60 min. In perhaps his greatest film masterpiece, Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp, following his paternal instincts, takes a hapless, orphaned baby - "the Kid" - under his wing. Five years pass, and the tyke is now a precocious little boy (Jackie Coogan), helping his foster dad, the Tramp, in his "window glass replacement" scam. But a confluence of events, including the Kid’s sudden illness, conspire to separate the two.
“A Dog's Life," (1918, Janus Films, 40 min). A literal expression of Chaplin's identification with the underdog.