Charlie Chaplin: Kid Auto Races at Venice (Laurel & Hardy) Color

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----- Made by Keystone Studios and directed by Henry Lehrman, the movie portrays Chaplin as a spectator at a "baby-cart race" in Venice, Los Angeles. The spectator keeps getting in the way of the camera and interferes with the race, causing great frustration to the public and participants. The film was shot during the Junior Vanderbilt Cup, an actual race with Chaplin and Lehrman improvising gags in front of real-life spectators.[2]
Unusually the camera breaks the fourth wall to show a second camera filming (as though it were the first), to better explain the joke. At this stage Chaplin gets in the way only of the visible camera on screen, not the actual filming camera. In so doing it takes on a spectator's viewpoint and becomes one of the first public films to show a film camera and cameraperson in operation.
Charlie Chaplin - The Tramp
Henry Lehrman - Film Director
Frank D. Williams - Cameraman
Gordon Griffith - Boy
Billy Jacobs - Boy
Charlotte Fitzpatrick - Girl
Thelma Salter - Girl[5][a]

[@anthonycrnkovich5241]

While I don't prefer colorized versions of b&w movies, I will say this is an excellent job. It's evocative of hand-colored tintypes. I love all of Chaplin's work, and I find his Keystone shorts enjoyable because his Tramp is more cartoonish, like Bugs Bunny or Felix the Cat. There's a rough-edged spontaneity to the character before pathos and sentiment refined him.

[@jasonnstegall]

I have to say, the colorization makes what is a well-worn over 100 year old film almost look, if not brand new, at least a bit more freshened up. (Oh yeah, someone FINALLY found a version of the film containing the ORIGINAL Keystone intertitles.)

[@westfield90]

Greatness in the making

[@CamhiRichard]

Color adds a lot to this one! Thanks.

[@FutureofGoodnessKindness]

Wow! without home entertainment systems in those days people took to the street for real-time experiences and live entertainment.

This is a genius work indeed!!!

[@philster611-ih8te]

And the majority of buildings seen here still exist. This movie is considered the first time the tramp is seen.

[@bhimsenluchooman4046]

@philster611. So they have been well maintained.

[@sabu1895]

Chaplin revolucionó el cine

[@user-uy2ly7bo7x]

채플린 작품들 계속 칼라로 올려 주셔서 너무나 감사드립니다^^

[@thailand6989]

👍👍👍

[@pechejanuary5028]

Jajaja it was the beguiling of the famous and iconic The little Tramp😜😀😂

[@fromchomleystreet]

Man, you could really stretch a gag in the teens.

[@ahrimed68]

Великий Чарли!)

[@octavsuper8326]

First troll ever

[@lisaturner4625]

amazing work

[@victoryndeoya5479]

Lisa yeasss

[@hichemomri3082]

Good

[@agastyakusum3233]

1914 color 😍😂😘🎉👌🎩

[@Misteribel]

FYI Many earliest movies of before or around 1900 were hand-colored, reel for reel, each copy frame by frame. Famously Meliés' films were done that way. The idea was to add entertainment value, but it was a time consuming and costly process, that later became obsolete with the advent of Kinemacolor (1906) and Technicolor (1916). Still, hand coloring was considered more artistic and has been done y some extend into the 50's. Recently some movie makers started using it again, as they believe it gives a very specific atmosphere to movies.

[@agastyakusum3233]

@@Misteribel yes expensive indeed with huge $

[@speed2040]

Vous avez pas honte de mettre une telle musique pour un film comme ça !!!!!!

[@bhimsenluchooman4046]

@Speed. Ca vous va une musique de Rambo? 😀

[@nocommentarygaming2788]

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