Kid Auto Races At Venice is a
1914The year 1914 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*The 3,300-seat Strand Theater opens in New York City.* February 2 - Charlie Chaplin's first film, Making a Living is released.* May 8 - Paramount Pictures is formed....
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
-made motion picture starring
Charlie ChaplinSir Charles Spencer Chaplin, KBE was an English comedic actor and film director. Chaplin became one of the most famous actors as well as a notable filmmaker, composer and musician in the early to mid Classical Hollywood era of American cinema.Chaplin acted in, directed, scripted, produced and...
in which his "
Little TrampThe Tramp, also known as The Little Tramp was Charlie Chaplin's most memorable on-screen character, a recognized icon of world cinema most dominant during the silent film era....
" character makes a first appearance (although
Mabel's Strange PredicamentMabel's Strange Predicament is a 1914 American-made motion picture starring Mabel Normand and Charles Chaplin. The Tramp was first presented to the public in Chaplin's second film Kid Auto Races at Venice though Mabel's Strange Predicament, his third film in order of release, was produced a few...
was technically the first film in which he portrayed the character, as it was produced a few days earlier).
Made by
Keystone StudiosKeystone Studios was an early movie studio founded in Edendale, California in 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by Mack Sennett with backing from Adam Kessel and Charles O. Bauman, owners of the New York Motion Picture Company...
and directed by
Henry LehrmanHenry Lehrman was an American actor, screenwriter and film director and producer.Born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, Lehrman emigrated to the United States at a young age and although he is best remembered as a film director, he began his career as an actor in a 1909 Biograph Studios production...
, in it Chaplin plays a spectator at a 'baby-cart race' in
CaliforniaCalifornia is the most populous state in the United States, and the third largest by area. California is the second most populous sub-national entity in the Americas, behind only São Paulo, Brazil...
. The spectator keeps getting in the way of the camera and interferes with the race, causing great frustration to the public and participants.
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Kid Auto Races At Venice is a
1914The year 1914 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*The 3,300-seat Strand Theater opens in New York City.* February 2 - Charlie Chaplin's first film, Making a Living is released.* May 8 - Paramount Pictures is formed....
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
-made motion picture starring
Charlie ChaplinSir Charles Spencer Chaplin, KBE was an English comedic actor and film director. Chaplin became one of the most famous actors as well as a notable filmmaker, composer and musician in the early to mid Classical Hollywood era of American cinema.Chaplin acted in, directed, scripted, produced and...
in which his "
Little TrampThe Tramp, also known as The Little Tramp was Charlie Chaplin's most memorable on-screen character, a recognized icon of world cinema most dominant during the silent film era....
" character makes a first appearance (although
Mabel's Strange PredicamentMabel's Strange Predicament is a 1914 American-made motion picture starring Mabel Normand and Charles Chaplin. The Tramp was first presented to the public in Chaplin's second film Kid Auto Races at Venice though Mabel's Strange Predicament, his third film in order of release, was produced a few...
was technically the first film in which he portrayed the character, as it was produced a few days earlier).
Synopsis
Made by
Keystone StudiosKeystone Studios was an early movie studio founded in Edendale, California in 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by Mack Sennett with backing from Adam Kessel and Charles O. Bauman, owners of the New York Motion Picture Company...
and directed by
Henry LehrmanHenry Lehrman was an American actor, screenwriter and film director and producer.Born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, Lehrman emigrated to the United States at a young age and although he is best remembered as a film director, he began his career as an actor in a 1909 Biograph Studios production...
, in it Chaplin plays a spectator at a 'baby-cart race' in
CaliforniaCalifornia is the most populous state in the United States, and the third largest by area. California is the second most populous sub-national entity in the Americas, behind only São Paulo, Brazil...
. The spectator keeps getting in the way of the camera and interferes with the race, causing great frustration to the public and participants. The film was shot at an actual race with Chaplin and his co-stars improvising gags in front of real-life spectators.
Cast
- Charles Chaplin - Tramp
- Henry Lehrman
Henry Lehrman was an American actor, screenwriter and film director and producer.Born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, Lehrman emigrated to the United States at a young age and although he is best remembered as a film director, he began his career as an actor in a 1909 Biograph Studios production...
- Film Director
- Frank D. Williams
Frank Williams was an American Gospel music singer.-Musical career:...
- Cameraman
- Billy Jacobs - Boy
- Charlotte Fitzpatrick - Girl
- Thelma Salter - Girl
- Gordon Griffith
Gordon Griffith or Gordon S. Griffith was an American assistant director, film producer, and one of the first child actors. Griffith worked in the film industry for five decades, acting in over sixty films, and surviving the transition from silent films to talkies—films with sound...
- Boy
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