FILM HISTORY
Lost Charlie Chaplin film discovered in Michigan antique sale
Still image from Charlie Chaplin’s cameo appearance in a Keystone comedy called A Thief Catcher in January 1914.
By Scott Eyman
Palm Beach Post
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
The diminutive figure emerges from the underbrush wearing a Keystone Cop uniform about four sizes too large. He screws up his courage by giving a very familiar wiggle of his butt, followed by a very familiar wriggle of his shoulders.
He’s wearing a little moustache that would soon become world famous, carrying only a nightstick and the possibility of greatness.
It’s Charlie Chaplin, making a cameo appearance in a Keystone comedy called A Thief Catcher in January 1914, just about a month after he started working at the Edendale, California, studio. It’s the 36th film he made in a frantic year’s activity before he left for more green, not to mention greener, pastures.
Until a few months ago, nobody knew it existed.
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Tags: A Thief Catcher, Charlie Chaplin, Keystone, Keystone Cops
How many other “lost” and never knew existed films are there? Wow!!!! I better start hitting the garage sales and see what else is out there. Thanks Allan for posting these interesting stories.
Chaplin was great as the tramp. But not good as other characters. Great story. Wow.