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( 1914 ) Charlie Chaplin Makes His 2nd Comedy Film Appearance & Debuts His Famous Tramp Character ♡

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Channel: Global Well-Being · 2018 · Education

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Support this channel by donating on PayPal:🧡 paypal.me/WhatWouldLoveDoNow Thank You! 🧡 In case this channel gets shut down, please subscribe to my new channel https://www.youtube.com/@compassionmatters Thank you! This channel is no longer eligible for monetization through advertising. Please help support Global Well-Being by making a Paypal donation at: https://paypal.me/WhatWouldLoveDoNow  Thank you! 🙏 "This Keystone comedy Kid Auto Races at Venice, released on 7 February 1914, was only Charlie Chaplin’s second ever appearance on film and the screen debut of his famous Tramp character. Although it was the first film released involving the Tramp, Chaplin had actually devised the outfit for the film Mabel’s Strange Predicament produced a few days earlier but released a couple days after Kid Auto Races at Venice, on 9 February 1914. Mack Sennett had requested that Chaplin “get into a comedy make-up”. As Chaplin recalled in his autobiography:

I had no idea what makeup to put on. I did not like my get-up as the press reporter [in Making a Living]. However on the way to the wardrobe I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. I wanted everything to be a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large. I was undecided whether to look old or young, but remembering Sennett had expected me to be a much older man, I added a small moustache, which I reasoned, would add age without hiding my expression. I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the makeup made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked on stage he was fully born.

In The Kid Auto Races at Venice Chaplin takes the Tramp to the races where he annoys a director, who is trying to film there, by continuously trying to sneak into shot." 

~ The Public Domain Review
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Release date: Jul 2, 1914 (United States)
Director: Henry Lehrman
Production company: Keystone Film Company
Screenwriter: Henry Lehrman
Story by: Henry Lehrman

Cast

Charlie Chaplin – The Tramp
Henry Lehrman – Film Director
Frank D. Williams – Cameraman
Gordon Griffith – Boy
Billy Jacobs – Boy
Charlotte Fitzpatrick – Girl
Thelma Salter – Girl

By 1914, the Vanderbilt Cup had become an important automobile racing event in the United States, and the 1914 event was to be held in Santa Monica, California. The city decided to sponsor a junior version of the event, apparently with several classes of engines and with age limits for the drivers.[7] Some classes had no engines and used a ramp to accelerate the cars in a manner similar to soap box derby races. Other classes used small engines. Chaplin's movie includes one scene shot at the bottom of the ramp used for the engineless races. There is no evidence that Junior Vanderbilt Cups were held either before or after the 1914 event. Actual silver cups were awarded. 

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Auto_Races_at_Venice

The music heard over the film (added afterwards) is... "Rag Time" by Doug Maxwell and is available for free download from the YouTube Audio Library at: https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music

Slapstick comedy definition: broad comedy characterized by boisterous action, as the throwing of pies in actors' faces, mugging, and obvious farcical situations and jokes.

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