Chaplin's Essanay comedies
By: written and directed by Charles Chaplin ; produced by Jesse T. Robbins
Contributors: Turpin, Ben, 1874-1940; Purviance, Edna, 1896-1958; White, Leo, 1882-1948; Anderson, Gilbert M., 1882-1971; Mineau, Charlotte; Jamison, Bud, 1894-1944; Coleman, Frank J.; Bacon, Lloyd, 1890-1955; Goodwins, Fred; Shepard, David; Essanay Film Manufacturing Co; Film Preservation Associates; Image Entertainment (Firm)
Edition: Digitally remastered version, speed corrected.
Publisher: Image Entertainment [distributor]
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Chatsworth, CA
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Short films; Silent films; Comedy films
Other titles: His new job.; Night out.; Champion.; In the park.; Jitney elopement.; Charlie's new job.; Champagne Charlie.; Charlie's drunken daze.; His night out.; Battling Charlie.; Champion Charlie.; Charlie the champion.; Charlie in the park.; Charlie on the spree.; Charlie's elopement.; Married in haste.
Description: A collection of Chaplin's films at Essanay Studios. His new job: Charlie applies for a job as an actor at a film studio. A night out: Charlie and Turpin are drunks about town, starting at a cafe and ending in a risque hotel room mix-up with a pretty girl. The Champion: Pint-sized Charlie defeats the bone-crushing champion prizefighter with the able assistance of his bulldog. In the park: Charlie interferes in the lives of two star-crossed lovers. A Jitney elopement: Charlie rescues his sweetheart from an arranged marriage by posing as Count Chloride de Lime. featuring the Ford automobile.
Notes: Videodisc release of five short films originally produced by Essanay Film Manufacturing Co. in 1915.

Restored film and special contents by Film Preservation Associates.

Photographed by Harry Ensign ; music by Robert Israel (A night out, The champion), Eric James (His new job, In the park) ; produced for video by David Shepard.

Charlie Chaplin, Frank J. Coleman, Ben Turpin, Edna Purviance, Charlotte Mineau, Bud Jamison, Leo White, Lloyd Bacon, Fred Goodwins, G.M. Anderson.

DVD.

Silent films with intertitles and musical accompaniment.
Table of contents: title: His new job (aka. Charlie's new job); title: A Night out (aka. Champagne Charlie, Charlie's drunken daze, Charlie's night out, His night out); title: The Champion (aka. Battling Charlie, Champion Charlie, Charlie the champion); title: In the park (aka. Charlie in the park, Charlie on the spree); title: Jitney elopement (aka. Charlie's elopement, Married in haste)