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CHARLIE CHAPLIN - MOVIES:
- MAKING A LIVING - 1914
Director: Henry Lehrma
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Emma Clifton, Chester Conklin
An out-of-work swindler takes a job as a reporter. After witnessing a car go over cliff, he grabs a rival reporter's camera and races to the newspaper office to enter the photo as his own. His rival is delayed when he gets caught in a woman's bedroom by her jealous husband. The swindler follows the distribution of the paper containing his 'scoop' around town where he is once again chased by the rival reporter. Both end up on the cow-catcher of a streetcar.
- KID AUTO RACES AT VENICE - 1914
Director: Henry Lehrman
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Henry Lehrman, Gordon Griffith
Charlie, dressed as a tramp for the first time, goes to a baby-cart race in Venice, California. He causes a great deal of trouble and confusion, both on off the track (getting in the way of the cameraman) and on (interfering with the race). He succeeds in irritating both the participants and the public.
- MABEL'S STRANGE PREDICAMENT - 1914
Director: Mabel Normand
Stars: Mabel Normand, Charles Chaplin, Chester Conklin
In a hotel lobby an inebriated Charlie runs into an elegant lady, gets tied hup in her dog's leash, and falls down. He later runs into her in the hotel corridor, locked out of her room. They run through various rooms. Mabel ends up in one of an elderly husband where she hides under the bed. Enter the jealous wife and Mabel's lover.
- BETWEEN SHOWERS - 1914
Director: Henry Lehrman
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Ford Sterling, Chester Conklin
Charlie and another man compete in trying to help a young lady cross a muddy street. The rival finds a wooden plank which Charlie takes from him. They fight over an umbrella belonging to the rival. A policeman settles the dispute, ultimately arresting the rival. An innocent tramp is pushed into the lake.
- FILM JOHNNIE - 1914
Director: George Nichols
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Peggy Pearce
Charlie goes to the movie and falls in love with a girl on the screen. He goes to Keystone Studios to find her. He disrupts the shooting of a film, and a fire breaks out. Charlie is blamed, gets squirted with a firehose, and is shoved by the female star.
- CHARLE'S RECREATION - 1914
Director: Charles Chaplin
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Charles Bennett, Helen Carruthers
Charlie is walking in the park. A girl leaves a seaman on one bench and joins Charlie on another. The seaman wakes up. He and Charlie stage a brick fight. Policemen get hit and arrest both men. During an ensuing fight on the dock the policemen, the seaman, Charlie and the girl wind up in the water.
- HIS FAVORITE PASTIME - 1914
Director: George Nichols
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Peggy Pearce
Charlie gets into a fight at his regular bar and finally crawls out under the door. He then boards a streetcar and follows a beautiful lady in a taxi. He breaks into her home. Her husband comes finds him trying to seduce his wife.