The New Janitor (1914)
Keystone Comedies
Charlie becomes a janitor only to be fired when he drops a pail of water on his boss’head. As he departs he hears a secretery’s pleas for help… he saves the secretary and get his job back.
Charlie would go on to play a bank janitor who saves a secretary again from a robbery in Essanay’s The Bank 1915.
A BURLESQUE ON CARMEN - 1915
Charlie Chaplin is a Spanish Guard Officer in this Essanay
He was such a goof ball through out this film, that is why the end was quite a nice surprise.
Tango Tangles - March 9, 1914 - Keystone
While Charlie would appear briefly with out his tramp costume in the Keystone film the Masquerader (in that film he also would play a woman, as he did in the Keystone “A Busy Day” and Essany’s ” A Woman ) this was the only film where he would appear with out tramp costume and as a dapper Charles Chaplin through out. This film was done at an actual dance hall during a competion.
Charlie Chaplin and his morale lifting contribution to the military men in World War I.
These are lovely pictures from a September 1918 “Penny Pictorial” & April 1919 ”Photoplay” magazine, during and after World War I wounded soliders in military hospitals around the world were shown Charlie Chaplin films to lift their spirits, for men who were unable to sit up they played Charlie’s films on the ceiling.
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Charlie for~chaplinfortheages
One of his most celebrated Mutual short films.
EASY STREET - 1917, he designed the set to depict what the streets looked like in his childhood home of Victorian England.
Though he would be out of the his “tramp” costume from time to time he always wore the over sized shoes/boots they were his trademark.
Good Ol’e Charlie~for~chaplinfortheages
THE KID 1921
Screen Capture from ‘THE KID”
Charlie enjoying a smoke and a little light reading courtesy of the tramps favorite publication (and possibly Chaplin’s as well) the “POLICE GAZETTE”“
Lurid coverage of sensational murders and photographs of scantily clad strippers, burlesque dancers and prostitutes, often skirting on the edge of what was legally considered obscene.
