The Early Years of Charlie Chaplin
eBook - ePub

The Early Years of Charlie Chaplin

Final Shorts and First Features

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Early Years of Charlie Chaplin

Final Shorts and First Features

About this book

A thorough look into the early life and career of Charlie Chaplin. Charlie Chaplin's career has been described, critiqued, and scrutinized. There are book-length studies on Chaplin's music hall career, his career at Keystone Studios and the Mutual Studios. Somehow, his tenure with First National studios, however, has been largely neglected, even though it was during this several-year contractual time period that Chaplin built and occupied his own studio for the first time, that he attempted and succeeded in filming a comedy feature (The Kid) and that he helped to set up United Artists, an organization that protected the salaries and creative freedom of actors in Hollywood. This period in Chaplin's story is especially interesting because such landmark moments are accompanied by Chaplin's first marriage and divorce, the death of his first child, his friendship with French silent film comedian Max Linder, World War I and the role he would play in it, and the production and release of several unsuccessful films that marked Chaplin's first creative blockage - one that threatened his future career. This book will discuss the transitional periods just before and after the First National contract, as well as the all-important period satisfying it. Archival evidence provides most of the support for the book's assertions, from the Chaplin archive (property of Roy Export, digitized by Cineteca di Bologna, Italy), and the personal archives of other individuals or institutions discussed. Rare photos will illustrate the story.

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Information

Publisher
White Owl
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781526780737
Subtopic
Film et vidéo

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction: The Road to the First National Contract
  6. Chapter 1 Negotiating with First National, Leaving Mutual Film Corp., Building the Chaplin Studios
  7. Chapter 2 First Film A Dog’s Life (1918) and the Third Liberty Loan Tour
  8. Chapter 3 World War I: Shoulder Arms and The Bond
  9. Chapter 4 A Period of Stagnation: Life with Mildred Harris and Severe Creative Blockage: Sunnyside (1919), A Day’s Pleasure (1919) and the formation of United Artists
  10. Chapter 5 Betting on The Kid (1921): The First Feature Comedy with both a ‘Laughter and a Tear’
  11. Chapter 6 Back to Work in Hollywood: Filming The Idle Class
  12. Chapter 7 The Kid Reception in Britain and Chaplin’s Homecoming Tour (September–October 1921)
  13. Chapter 8 Finishing Up the Contract: The Pilgrim (1923) and Its Controversies
  14. Epilogue: On into the Future: Chaplin’s Remaining Life and Work
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Acknowledgements
  18. Plates