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the Chaplin-Keystone films (1914) 39
duke, he flirts with Mabel at a garden party and nearly exposes himself when he crosses his legs, revealing a hole in the sole of his shoe. He retrieves the situation by hanging his hat on the toe. In "The Property Man," he tears a piece of cloth whenever the "strong man" bends, causing the performer to worry about possible rips in his pants. Appearing for only three minutes in Arbuckle's "The Knockout," Chaplin is an officious referee who gets caught between the fighters and gets their blows. In "The Rounders," he enrages a bald man by striking a match on his pate.
In "Dough and Dynamite," largely made up of typical Keystone slapstick, Chaplin interjects a clever bit, making doughnuts by forming bracelets of dough around his wrist, then deftly slipping his hand out. In "The New Janitor," leaning over to pick up a pistol, Charlie points the revolver between his legs at an approaching crook, straightens up by stepping over his hands while continuing to cover the crook. In "Those Love Pangs," Charlie lounges crosslegged in a movie theatre and gesticulates with his feet as if they were hands. At a lunch counter in "His Trysting Place," the whiskers of a neighboring diner serve him as a napkin. At the end of "His Prehistoric Past," as Charlie is hit over the head by the king of the tribe, the scene changes to a park bench with a policeman flourishing his club over the awakening Charlie.
Despite the crudity of the Chaplin-Keystones, such comic flashes make them worth seeing and studying.
All more or less of the same pattern and style, it is difficult to pick the outstanding ones. However, though not one of the hits, "Making a Living" stands out today for its wry comments on "success." To illustrate go-getter ethics, Chaplin, who has just begged and gotten money from a news photographer, makes love to his benefactor's girl and scoops him by stealing his camera.