Title: Chaplin's Mutual Comedies
Year of issue: 1916-1917
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Charles Chaplin, Eric Campbell, Edna Purviance, Lloyd Bacon, Albert Austin, Charlotte Mino, Frank J. Coleman, James T. Kelly, John Rand, Wesley Ruggles, Leo White, Henry Bergman, Leota Bryan, William Gillespie, Kitty Bradbury, Tom Harrington, Phyllis Allen
Description:
Charles Chaplin is a legend. Even in the age of computers and inconceivable special effects, his black-and-white silent films, which have long since become classics of cinema, impress in a way that the coolest and most sophisticated Hollywood blockbuster does not always impress. The films of Charles Chaplin are special. He acted as a screenwriter, director, actor (sometimes playing more than one role in one picture) and composer at the same time, and, probably, it was this crazy love for his work, combined with Charlie's boundless universal talent, that made his films truly immortal. They still make you laugh and cry, they allow you to look at life's minor troubles with different eyes and, like Chaplin's hero - the Tramp, not to give up and not lose heart.
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01. The Floorwalker (1916)
Duration: 00:29:22
Film description: Tramp Charlie comes to a rich department store, where interesting events unfold at this time - the department store controller stunned the director and stole a tidy sum of money. The controller, by the way, is like two drops of water similar to Charlie ... In addition, there is a whole crowd of petty thieves in the store, a beautiful secretary, a hated polisher and Charlie's main enemy - the escalator!
Musical accompaniment:
1. Music by Gabriel Thibaudeau
2. Alternate Improvisational Piano by Antonio Coppola
02. The Fireman (1916)
Duration: 00:26:27
Film description: Charlie plays a firefighter who always does everything wrong. One day, a man who set fire to his house in order to collect insurance arranged with the fire chief not to come to the place of the fire, despite the fact that his daughter was on the top floor of the house. But when the fire spreads to a neighboring house, the owner of this house calls the fire brigade...
Musical accompaniment:
1. Original Fotoplayer Music and Sound Effects Played and Adapted by Robert Israel
2. Alternate Improvisational Piano by Neil Brand
03. The Vagabond (1916)
Duration: 00:26:40
Film description: In this picture, Chaplin plays the role of a traveling musician. Wandering around the cities, Charlie saves a little blond day laborer from the villainous gypsies, takes her away and, of course, falls in love. Now they are traveling together, but their idyll does not last long - the adventure is just beginning...
Musical accompaniment:
1. Music by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra
2. Alternate Improvisational Piano by Antonio Coppola
04. One A.M. (1916)
Duration: 00:27:29
Film description: The hero is a wealthy slacker who returns home heavily drunk and tries for a long time and unsuccessfully to get from the hallway of the first floor of his house to the bedroom located on the second floor. Any piece of furniture he meets (a revolving table, rug, stuffed bear and lynx, tiger skin, clock pendulum and others) is perceived by him as an obstacle and is overcome in several steps. At the same time, the hero makes great efforts in order not to lose his "aristocratic" demeanor.
Musical accompaniment:
1. Music by Carl Davis
2. Alternate Improvisational Piano by Gabriel Thibaudeau
05. The Count (1916)
Duration: 00:25:14
Film description: In the film "The Count" the protagonist is a tailor with an angry owner with a ridiculous beard. Moreover, both achieve the location of a rich lady, who accidentally ended up at the ball. Each of them pretends to be a noble count. Complete confusion, brawls, ice cream throwing and, of course, continuous laughter.
Musical accompaniment:
1. Music by Donald Sosin, Peter Breiner, and Richard A. Whiting
2. Alternate Improvisational Piano by Neil Brand
06. The Pawnshop (1916)
Duration: 00:26:44
Film description: Charlie was hired by a pawnbroker's shop. His enemy is the master's assistant. Charlie gets into a lot of comical situations, accepting watches as collateral from a client...
Musical accompaniment:
1. Music by Winston Sharples & Gene Rodemich/Adaptation by Eric Beheim & Robert Israel
2. Alternate Improvisational Piano by Donald Sosin
07. Behind the Screen (1916)
Duration: 00:25:26
Description of the film: A small, harassed property owner David, pissed off by the endless chicanery of lazy workers and, above all, his own boss named Goliath, arranges a strike and begins to take revenge on his offenders. He is helped by a girl who is looking for a job and dressed up as a guy. When David finds out that this is a girl, he falls in love with her ...
Musical accompaniment:
1. Music by Robert Israel
2. Alternate Improvisational Piano by Antonio Coppola
08. The Rink (1916)
Duration: 00:25:50
Film description: Hero Charlie works in a restaurant. After a series of adventures at work, he goes to the ice rink to relax during lunch. There, he sees Mr. Stout actively wooing a girl he doesn't like. In the evening, Charlie shows up at that girl's party, introducing himself as Sir Cecil Seltzer...
Musical accompaniment:
1. Music by Antonio Coppola
2. Alternate Improvisational Piano by Maud Nelissen
09. Easy Street (1917)
Duration: 00:27:01
Film description: In this film, Charlie seems to start a new life - he goes to work in the police. In the police, he is sent to the most dangerous area - to one of the "quiet streets" of the city's slums, which the local "authority" arbitrarily keeps at bay. The fight between the puny Charlie and the huge brute is inevitable.
Musical accompaniment:
1. Music by Neil Brand
2. Alternate Improvisational Piano by Donald Sosin
10. The Cure (1917)
Duration: 00:26:29
Film description: This time, Chaplin's reason for laughing is a common human weakness - the love of alcohol. In this film, the hero of the film is not a tramp, but a rich drunkard who has come to a mineral water resort. But the healing waters are not for him, he brought with him a huge trunk with alcohol, which all the vacationers unexpectedly tasted.
Musical accompaniment:
1. Music by Stephen Horne
2. Alternate Improvisational Piano by Maud Nelissen
11. The Immigrant (1917)
Duration: 00:25:00
Film description: Chaplin's silent comedy masterpiece, which has not lost irony, sharpness and compassion even today. Little Tramp, he is an immigrant who crosses the ocean on a ship to see the "free world", where he is greeted with kicks and cuffs ...
Musical accompaniment:
1. Music by Timothy Brock
2. Alternate Improvisational Piano by Donald Sosin
12. The Adventurer (1917)
Duration: 00:26:58
Film description: The protagonist of the picture escaped from hard labor. Running away from a squad of policemen, he performs a cascade of grandiose stunts. The plot is famously twisted in the film: here is the persecution, and rescue from the water, and ups and downs at a social event.
Musical accompaniment:
1. Music by Robert Israel
2. Alternate Improvisational Piano by Neil Brand
Country: USA,
Mutual Corporation
Duration: 12 x ~ 00:26:00
Translation: Not required (Silent movie)
Subtitles: English (intertitles)
Release from:
All twelve short films were restored in 2K and reconstructed by Cineteca di Bologna and Lobster Films at L'immagine Ritrovata Laboratories in 2013. The only exception is The Immigrant, which was restored by L'Immagine Ritrovata in 2012.
Quality: BDRip 720p (encode
Metalolom111) | Source: Chaplin's Mutual Comedies (1916-1917) {2-Disc Edition} Blu-ray 1080p AVC DD2.0
Format: MPEG-4
Video: 960x720, 23.976 fps, ~3800 kbit/s
Audio: AC3, 48 kHz, 2 ch, 192 kbit/s
Size: 9.77 GB (10,489,211,136)
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