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Voidsville Follies

Works by Edna Purviance (4)

The Tramp

Charles Chaplin (director/lead/writer)
Harry Ensign (cinematographer)
Edna Purviance (lead)
Essanay (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Apr 1915
Minutes: 27

Seemingly endless loop of the same type of slapstick that was done with much more enthusiasm in Chaplin's earlier Keystone reels with Mabel Normand.

Featured elements:

: alienation; antihero; bookends; comedy; fighting; heroic defender; home invasion; pathos; slapstick; tramp; treachery

Burlesque On Carmen

Charles Chaplin (director/lead/writer)
Roland Totheroh (cinematographer)
Prosper Mérimée (author)
Edna Purviance (lead)
Essanay (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Dec 1915
Minutes: 31

Maybe not the funniest, but the silly-walks, patty-cakes, hairy-eyeballs, and Ali-shuffle make this a catalog of creative nuttiness.

Featured elements:

: Bizet's Carmen; catfight; comedy; dance; death scene; femme fatale; fighting; forsaken; metatheatre; parody; slapstick; tramp

The Floorwalker

Charles Chaplin (director/lead/writer)
William C. Foster (cinematographer)
Roland Totheroh (cinematographer)
Vincent Bryan (writer)
Maverick Terrell (writer)
Eric Campbell (lead)
Edna Purviance (lead)
Lloyd Bacon (lead)
Albert Austin (lead)
Charlotte Mineau (lead)
Leo White (lead)
James T. Kelley (lead)
Mutual (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in May 1916
Minutes: 28

Trying to avoid capture by a store detective, The Tramp switches identities with a floorwalker - unaware he is a double-crossing embezzler on the lam.

Featured elements:

: comedy; dance; fighting; identity mix-up; mirror image gag; shadow-the-guard gag; slapstick; smack attack; tramp

Easy Street

Charles Chaplin (director/lead/writer)
William C. Foster (cinematographer)
Roland Totheroh (cinematographer)
Vincent Bryan (writer)
Maverick Terrell (writer)
Eric Campbell (lead)
Edna Purviance (lead)
Lloyd Bacon (lead)
Albert Austin (lead)
Charlotte Mineau (lead)
Leo White (lead)
James T. Kelley (lead)
John Rand (lead)
Mutual (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Jan 1917
Minutes: 23

With so many hilarious gags (and some are just small movements), that come at you so rapidly, repeat viewings is a must.

Featured elements:

: addiction; baptism of fire; bookends; chase; comedy; crazy cops; dark comedy; drunken warrior; family; fighting; heroic defender; poverty; redemption; religion; slapstick; smack attack; strongman; tramp; zero to hero

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