Chaplin's Essanay Comedies DVD including "trick films

including "trick films

For this brand-new restoration

Length: 70 mins

This deluxe Blu-ray edition is made possible thanks to the generous underwriting and funding from the Sunrise Foundation for Education & the Arts and the Villa Aurora / Thomas Mann House

his apotheosis being the landmark 1929 film Man with a Movie Camera

Chaplin's Essanay Comedies DVD including "trick filmsSTREAM DIGITAL VERSION 2 DISC BLU RAY EDITION In late 1914, Charlie Chaplin was paid the then unprecedented salary of $1,250 per week (with a bonus of $10,000) in exchange for signing a one year contract with the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company. The resulting 14 films he created for Essanay find Chaplin further experimenting with new cinematic techniques, while continuing to add complexities and pathos into his celebrated Little Tramp character,