The kid / ; written, produced and directed by Charlie Chaplin ; Charlie Chaplin Productions.

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The Tramp and his ragamuffin sidekick triumph over life's hard knocks in the landmark film that changed the notion of what a screen comedy could be.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Kid (Motion picture)
Criterion collection ; 799.
Corporate Authors: Charlie Chaplin Productions (Production company)
Criterion Collection (Firm) (Publisher)
Other Authors: Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977 (Screenwriter, Film producer, Film director, Actor, Editor of moving image work, composer (expression),)
Purviance, Edna, 1896-1958 (Actor)
Coogan, Jackie, 1914-1984 (Actor)
Miller, Carl, 1893-1979 (Actor)
Rogers, Eric, 1921-1981 (Conductor, composer (expression),)
Totheroh, Roland H., 1890-1967 (director of photography.)
Maland, Charles J. (Commentator)
Brownlow, Kevin (interviewer (expression))
Gill, David, 1928-1997 (interviewer (expression))
Vance, Jeffrey, 1970- (interviewer (expression))
Haven, Lisa Stein, 1960- (Filmmaker)
Model, Ben (interviewee (expression))
Brock, Timothy (composer (expression))
Gunning, Tom, 1949- (Writer of supplementary textual content)
Language:No linguistic content
English
Language and/or Writing System:
Silent film, with musical accompaniment and English intertitles.
Published: [Irvington, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]
Edition:DVD special edition.
Series:Criterion collection ; 799.
Subjects:
Tramps > Drama.
Orphans > Drama.
Orphans.
Tramps.
Comedy films.
Silent films.
Silent films > United States.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Feature films > United States.
Drama.
Genre:
Drama.
Comedy films.
Silent films.
Silent films
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Feature films
Physical Description:1 videodisc (53 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out leaflet.
Format: Video DVD
Description
Summary:
The Tramp and his ragamuffin sidekick triumph over life's hard knocks in the landmark film that changed the notion of what a screen comedy could be.
Note:DVD release of the 1972 rerelease version of the 1921 motion picture.
Accompanied by a fold-out leaflet featuring an essay by film scholar Tom Gunning.
Special features: Commentary (new audio commentary featuring Chaplin scholar Charles Maland); Interviews: Jackie Coogan (recorded by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill for the 1980 British television series Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film), Lita Grey Chaplin (recalls her role in the film and her marriage to Chaplin at sixteen), Rollie Totheroh (recalls the editing of the film), Mo Rotheman (the distributor discusses the film with Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance); Jackie Coogan: the first child star (a new video essay by Chaplin scholar Lisa Haven); A study in undercranking (silent-film specialist Ben Model looks at how Chaplin used filming and projecting speeds to create unique gags only for silent film); Charlie Chaplin conducts The kid (Chaplin condnducting the film score); From the 1921 version (deleted scenes and titles from the original 1921 version of The Kid); "Charlie" on the ocean (1921 newsreel from Chaplins first trip back to Europe after becoming an American actor); Nice and friendly (1922 short presented with new score by Timothy Brock); excerpted audio interviews; Trailers.
Call Number:PN1995.75 .K53 2016 VideoDVD
Audience:
MPAA rating: Not rated.
ISBN:9781681431109
1681431106
Credits:Music composed by Charlie Chaplin ; music orchestrated and conducted by Eric Rogers ; cinematography, Roland "Rollie" Totheroh ; editor, Charlie Chaplin.
System Details:DVD, NTSC, region 1 ; fullscreen (1.33:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono.
Cast:
Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Jack Coogan, Carl Miller.