Thursday, February 10, 2011

Twenty Minutes of Love


Charlie at the Wheel


Twenty Minutes of Love by Charles Chaplin and Joseph Maddern, 1914:



At last: Charles Chaplin's directorial debut (co-directorship with Joseph Maddern) / Night-and-day, compared with the Lerhmans and Normands and Nichols and Sennetts / This film has a structure: repetition, motifs... / All to ask the first — and one of the foremost — of moral questions in Chaplin: What is property?

Twenty Minutes of Love by Charles Chaplin and Joseph Maddern, 1914:




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Previous pieces on Chaplin at Cinemasparagus:

Making a Living [Lehrman, 1914] / Kid Auto Races at Venice, Cal. [Lehrman, 1914] / Mabel's Strange Predicament [Normand, 1914] / Between Showers [Lehrman, 1914] / A Film Johnnie [George Nichols, 1914] / Tango Tangles [Sennett, 1914] / His Favorite Pastime [George Nichols, 1914] / Cruel, Cruel Love [George Nichols, 1914] / The Star Boarder [George Nichols, 1914] / Mabel at the Wheel [Normand and Sennett, 1914]


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