Tillie's Punctured Romance

Tillie's Punctured Romance 1914

6.10

A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.

1914

Kid Auto Races at Venice

Kid Auto Races at Venice 1914

5.50

The Tramp interferes with the celebration of several kid auto races in Venice, California (Junior Vanderbilt Cup Race, January 10 and 11, 1914), standing himself in the way of the cameraman who is filming the event.

1914

The Rounders

The Rounders 1914

6.11

Two drunks fight with their wives and then go out and get even drunker.

1914

Making a Living

Making a Living 1914

5.62

A swindler scams a newspaper reporter-photographer and then, not realizing where the man is employed, applies for a job at his newspaper.

1914

Caught in a Cabaret

Caught in a Cabaret 1914

5.60

Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and tries to impress her by pretending to be an ambassador. Unfortunately she has a jealous fiancé.

1914

Laughing Gas

Laughing Gas 1914

5.50

Although only a dental assistant, Charlie pretends to be the dentist. After receiving too much anesthesia, a patient can't stop laughing, so Charlie knocks him out with a club.

1914

The New Janitor

The New Janitor 1914

6.10

The hero, a janitor played by Chaplin, is fired from work for accidentally knocking his bucket of water out the window and onto his boss the chief banker (Tandy). Meanwhile, one of the junior managers (Dillon) is being threatened with exposure by his bookie for gambling debts unpaid. Thus the manager decides to steal from the company.

1914

His Prehistoric Past

His Prehistoric Past 1914

5.60

Set mostly in the Stone Age, a prehistoric king, with a harem of wives, rules a beach. Charlie arrives and falls for the king's favorite wife. In the end, it turns out to have been a dream; Charlie was asleep in the park.

1914

A Film Johnnie

A Film Johnnie 1914

5.40

The Tramp, a film Johnnie (someone who loiters near theaters or studios to meet stars or get a job), attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at the Keystone Studio, but does not win friends there.

1914

Mabel's Strange Predicament

Mabel's Strange Predicament 1914

5.30

A tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and, upstairs, causes some misunderstandings between Mabel, two hotel guests across the hall from her room, and Mabel's visiting sweetheart.

1914

The Face on the Barroom Floor

The Face on the Barroom Floor 1914

5.20

A painter turned tramp (Chaplin), devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy man, finds himself drunk and getting drunker by the minute with some sailors at a bar until he's literally falling down. He keeps futilely trying to draw the woman's picture on the floor with a piece of chalk until he finally passes out cold (or perhaps dies, as in the poem) at the end of the film.

1914

The Knockout

The Knockout 1914

5.70

To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.

1914

His Favorite Pastime

His Favorite Pastime 1914

5.15

A very plastered fella follows a pretty woman home, and proceeds to make a nuisance of himself.

1914

Between Showers

Between Showers 1914

5.30

Mr. Snookie steals an umbrella and then, while trying to help a woman to cross a puddle, the Tramp appears and intervenes.

1914

Cruel, Cruel Love

Cruel, Cruel Love 1914

5.09

This early Chaplin film has him playing a character quite different from the Tramp for which he would become famous. He is a rich, upper-class gentleman whose romance is endangered when his girlfriend oversees him being embraced by a maid. Chaplin's romantic interest in this film, Minta Durfee, was the wife of fellow Keystone actor, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.

1914

Getting Acquainted

Getting Acquainted 1914

5.30

Charlie and his wife are in the park when he encounters Ambrose and his wife. Each man is attracted to and shows unwanted attention to the other man's wife. A policeman becomes involved.

1914

His Musical Career

His Musical Career 1914

5.90

Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospect St.

1914

Tango Tangles

Tango Tangles 1914

5.00

In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.

1914

Recreation

Recreation 1914

5.09

Charlie begins to woo a woman on a bench, only to have her seaman boyfriend object. After a brick fight between the two men that eventually involves two police officers, all five people end up in the local pond to cool off.

1914