Chaplin's Essanay Comedies, Vol. 01
In CHAPLIN'S ESSANAY COMEDIES, made in 1915, cinema's greatest comedian was first able to build his screen work around his performance style rather than forcing himself, as before, into Mack Sennett's frenzied Keystone comedy matrix. With this freedom Chaplin evolved in a year from the gag comedian of His New Job to the brilliant pantomimist of A Night Out, The Champion, The Tramp and Shanghaied to the profound satirist of Police.