Flicker Alley’s Chaplin’s Essanay Comedies

Once his first movie contract, with Keystone, terminated, Charlie Chaplin moved on quickly to a new one-year contract with the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company. There he made fourteen films, all included in Flicker Alley’s exceptional Chaplin’s Essanay Comedies, Flicker Alley’s third (and final) comprehensive Chaplin release. Read the full post.

Flicker Alley’s Chaplin’s Mutual Comedies

In 1916, Chaplin signed on with a new studio, the Mutual Film Corporation, and became the highest paid entertainer in the world. In a lovingly compiled dual-format home video release, Flicker Alley presents beautiful restorations of all twelve of the films Chaplin made at Mutual. Trevor looks at Flicker Alley’s Chaplin’s Mutual Comedies. Read the full post.