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Chaplin
The Legend Lives On
(1914-1917)

Contents: Mabel’s Strange Predicament (1914), A Film Johnnie (1914), Twenty Minutes of Love (1914), Caught in a Caberet (1914), The Fatal Mallet (1914), Laughing Gas (1914) [Laffing Gas], The Face on the Bar Room Floor (1914), The Masquerader (1914), The Rounders (1914), Getting Acquainted (1914) [A Fair Exchange], His New Job (1915), In the Park (1915), By the Sea (1915), A Woman (1915), The Bank (1915), Shanghaied (1915), A Night in the Show (1915), Carmen (1915) [A Burlesque on Carmen], Police! (1916), The Floorwalker (1916), The Fireman (1916), The Vagabond (1916), One A.M. (1916), Behind the Screen (1916), Easy Street (1917), The Cure (1917) and The Immigrant (1917).

Madacy Home Video
2004 DVD edition

Charlie Chaplin: The Legend Lives On (1914-1917), black & white, 540 minutes total, not rated, including Mabel’s Strange Predicament (1914), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, A Film Johnnie (1914), black & white, 7 minutes, not rated, Twenty Minutes of Love (1914), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Caught in a Caberet (1914), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Fatal Mallet (1914), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Laughing Gas (1914) [Laffing Gas], black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Face on the Bar Room Floor (1914), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Masquerader (1914), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Rounders (1914), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Getting Acquainted (1914) [A Fair Exchange], black & white, ? minutes, not rated, His New Job (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, In the Park (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, By the Sea (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, A Woman (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Bank (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Shanghaied (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, A Night in the Show (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Carmen (1915) [A Burlesque on Carmen], black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Police! (1916), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Floorwalker (1916), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Fireman (1916), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Vagabond (1916), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, One A.M. (1916), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Behind the Screen (1916), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Easy Street (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Cure (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and The Immigrant (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Madacy Entertainment Group, DGP9 50033, UPC 6-28261-00339-6, ISBN 0-7786-2148-0.
Five single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD discs, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; five DVD plastic trays in cardboard rollfold case in cardboard slipcase; $12.22.
Release date: 4 May 2004.
Country of origin: Canada

This budget DVD collection follows the suit of other big box Chaplin collections: put as many films onto as many discs as possible, regardless of print quality and sell them as cheap as possible. With so many quality versions of the later Chaplin films available, the chief attraction of this collection will be . . . well, I don’t know . . . to get as much as you can for as little as possible?

Don’t consider buying this collection for the early Chaplin films. The Keystone, Essanay and Mutual films have all been released on DVD home video in far superior editions transferred from 35mm prints.

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