#essanay

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In The Park (1915) Charlie Chaplin

In the Park is a comedy film directed, written and starring Charlie Chaplin . Chaplin's third film produced by Essanay , In the Park picks up on the intrigues already underlying Chaplin's earlier films at Keystone: the Tramp wanders through a park among beautiful girls, jealous boyfriends and patrolling policemen, just as he did in Twenty Minutes of Love . It was his penultimate one-reel film before By the Sea , thereafter Chaplin would turn to more complex plots with more elaborate characters, where every gag was studied in detail and less and less room was allocated to improvisation.

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"A Woman" 1915 (Essanay)

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Essanay Studios were very close to where I grew up - it was on Argyle west of Broadway. Saw this old history film on the place just recently. It's low-res and runs about a half-hour but worth the time. They discuss filming locations that Essanay used around the north-side. They were turning out 1 reel short movies at a prodigious rate.

"When Chicago was Hollywood" was made in 1964.

These are the films Funkhouser was trying to censor...

Note; Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum has a great collection of silent film history discussions and digital scans of Essanay films.

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Essanay Photoplays, 1909-1915.

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Charlie Chaplin & Edna Purviance “In The Park” The Essanay Film (1915)

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When you got style and you can’t help but show it off.

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