The icon that Charles Chaplin created at the age of 24 may be said to have been born on the first day that he was put on public display: Feb. 7, 1914. The "flicker" was "Kid Auto Races at Venice," and ...

ARLINGTON, Va. -- A short silent comedy that was lost for decades holds a big surprise for film buffs and historians when a familiar face emerges from the bushes in police uniform and that ...

The diminutive figure emerges from the underbrush wearing a Keystone Cop uniform about four sizes too large. He screws up his courage by giving a very familiar wiggle of his butt, followed by a ...

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Charlie Chaplin’s original “Little Tramp” costume, which debuted in his first film in 1914, is for sale. It was originally lent to him by another actor in a sketch called “The Mumming Birds.” The lot, ...

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Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914): A nothing film that shows the primitive state of comedy when Chaplin began his career, it's worth seeing as a kind of starting line. The Tramp (1915): The first film ...

FOR Charles Spencer Chaplin, 1914 was a very good year. In January he was a minor British vaudeville star who had just signed a contract to appear in a series of comedies produced by the Keystone Film ...

Watching the new Blu-ray/DVD set “Chaplin’s Mutual Comedies” is a revelation because one can witness a master filmmaker coming of age. Charlie Chaplin introduced his beloved, baggy-panted Tramp in ...

In less than a year at Mack Sennett’s Keystone Film Co. in 1914, Charlie Chaplin had gone from a member of the stock company to one of the studio’s brightest lights. He had developed his character of ...

It is one of the most famous moments in cinematic history: the instant when Charlie Chaplin, playing a sadsack hobo, becomes The Tramp. Walking down a country road, heartbroken, Chaplin picks up his ...

Cinema was just emerging from its infancy when Charlie Chaplin created his comic character the Tramp a century ago. With his bowler hat, baggy pants, endearing little mustache, exaggerated shuffling ...