Kid Auto Races at Venice

Kid Auto Races at Venice 1914

5.50

The Tramp interferes with the celebration of several kid auto races in Venice, California (Junior Vanderbilt Cup Race, January 10 and 11, 1914), standing himself in the way of the cameraman who is filming the event.

1914

Mabel's Strange Predicament

Mabel's Strange Predicament 1914

5.40

A tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and, upstairs, causes some misunderstandings between Mabel, two hotel guests across the hall from her room, and Mabel's visiting sweetheart.

1914

Tillie's Punctured Romance

Tillie's Punctured Romance 1914

6.10

A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.

1914

The Fatal Mallet

The Fatal Mallet 1914

5.40

Three men compete for the attentions of a pretty girl. One of them, a little tramp, plays dirty.

1914

Between Showers

Between Showers 1914

5.30

Mr. Snookie steals an umbrella and then, while trying to help a woman to cross a puddle, the Tramp appears and intervenes.

1914

Dough and Dynamite

Dough and Dynamite 1914

6.10

Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results.

1914

Caught in a Cabaret

Caught in a Cabaret 1914

5.60

Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and tries to impress her by pretending to be an ambassador. Unfortunately she has a jealous fiancé.

1914

Cruel, Cruel Love

Cruel, Cruel Love 1914

5.10

This early Chaplin film has him playing a character quite different from the Tramp for which he would become famous. He is a rich, upper-class gentleman whose romance is endangered when his girlfriend oversees him being embraced by a maid. Chaplin's romantic interest in this film, Minta Durfee, was the wife of fellow Keystone actor, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.

1914

Laughing Gas

Laughing Gas 1914

5.50

Although only a dental assistant, Charlie pretends to be the dentist. After receiving too much anesthesia, a patient can't stop laughing, so Charlie knocks him out with a club.

1914

Twenty Minutes of Love

Twenty Minutes of Love 1914

5.60

Charlie is hanging around in the park, finding problems with a jealous suitor, a man who thinks that Charlie has robbed him a watch, a policeman and even a little boy, all because our friend can't stop snooping.

1914

Mabel's Busy Day

Mabel's Busy Day 1914

5.70

Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment. Charlie finds them and gives them away to the hungry spectators at the track as Mabel frantically tries to find her lost box of hot dogs. Mabel finds out that Charlie has stolen them and sends the police after him. Chaos ensues.

1914

The New Janitor

The New Janitor 1914

6.00

The hero, a janitor played by Chaplin, is fired from work for accidentally knocking his bucket of water out the window and onto his boss the chief banker (Tandy). Meanwhile, one of the junior managers (Dillon) is being threatened with exposure by his bookie for gambling debts unpaid. Thus the manager decides to steal from the company.

1914

Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco

Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco 1915

5.50

Frequent comedy co-stars Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand take viewers on a tour of the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. Attractions shown include the U.S. Battleship "Oregon", the Australian convict ship "Success" (complete with such punishment devices as a flogging rack and a spiked Iron Maiden), the world's tallest flagpole (251 feet), the Court of Abundance, the Court of the Universe (with sunken garden) and the Tower of Jewels. Fatty and Mabel also visit Frisco's still-under-construction City Hall, accompanied by Frisco's then-Mayor James Rolph Jr. Also appearing in the film is opera star Ernestine Schumann-Heink.

1915

Mabel's Blunder

Mabel's Blunder 1914

5.40

Mabel is pursued by her boss, despite being engaged to his son, in this gender-bending comedy of errors and mistaken identities.

1914

Caught in the Rain

Caught in the Rain 1914

5.60

When a married couple become separated in the park, a tramp sits with the lady and is beat up when her husband rejoins her. He takes a room in their hotel, and chaos ensues.

1914

The Masquerader

The Masquerader 1914

5.60

Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie never makes it into the film.

1914

Mabel at the Wheel

Mabel at the Wheel 1914

5.60

A villain, competing with his rival's race car, kidnaps the rival before the race. Mabel decides to take the wheel in his place.

1914

Mabel's Married Life

Mabel's Married Life 1914

5.90

Mabel goes home after being humiliated by a masher whom her husband won't fight. The husband goes off to a bar and gets drunk.

1914

The Face on the Barroom Floor

The Face on the Barroom Floor 1914

5.20

A painter turned tramp (Chaplin), devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy man, finds himself drunk and getting drunker by the minute with some sailors at a bar until he's literally falling down. He keeps futilely trying to draw the woman's picture on the floor with a piece of chalk until he finally passes out cold (or perhaps dies, as in the poem) at the end of the film.

1914