In The Park Clippings 10/20
Moving Picture World, New York, April 3, 1915.
In the Park Scene
& Mr. Charles Chaplin is presented in In the Park, One big laugh
in one reel, Released March 18th (...) Essanay
(...) Moving Picture World, March 27, 1915
& In the Park – ESSANAY – MARCH 18 – The first single reel
Chaplin-Essanay comedy. Charlie becomes so interested
in a spooning couple in a park that they chase him. A crook steals
the girl‘s pocketbook and then tries to pick Charlie‘s pocket,
but Charlie gets the pocketbook from him instead. A giant comes
along and takes it away from both of them and, in the fight
which follows, Charlie takes the spoils and leaves the other two
in the hands of a policeman. The girl thinks her lover
took the pocketbook and jilts him. He decides to commit suicide
and goes to the lake. Charlie sees him and encourages
him, after taking his watch and money away. The giant, crook and
policeman follow Charlie and a free-for-all fight takes
place on the bank of the river. Charlie succeeds in throwing
them all into the water and then makes his getaway.
(...) Motography, Chicago, March 27, 1915
„All into the water“
Editorial content. „Stories of the Films“ (...)
„Essanay.
In the Park (Charles Chaplin Comedy – March 18). –
Chaplin takes entirely too much interest in a ,spooning‘
couple on a park bench and is thrown off for his inquisitiveness.
He flees and is knocked over by a projecting limb
of a tree and falls into a baby buggy, thereapon the nurse
maid proceeds to give him a pummelling.
In his flight he runs into a tramp who has ,lifted‘ the
pocketbook of the girl ,spooner.‘ The tramp picks
Chaplin‘s pocket of some bologny sausage, but while he does
it Chaplin extracts the pocketbook from the tramp‘s
pocket with his cane. A giant happens along and the three
fight for the spoils.
Bricks are thrown and both the giant and the tramp
are ,knocked out.‘ Both ,spooners‘ also are struck
by the flying bricks and ,laid out cold.‘ When they wake up the
girl finds her pocketbook gone and accuses her sweetheart.
She then jilts him. He goes to the river to commit suicide, but has
not the courage to jump in.
Chaplin finds him and after taking the man‘s watch and
money helps him carry out his wish to die by kicking
him into the river. The rest of the party find a policeman and
pursue Chaplin to the water‘s edge. The policeman tries
to arrest Chaplin. A fierce battle ensues, in which Chaplin burls
them all into the water.“
Redaktioneller Inhalt. Letzte Worte: „Alle ins Wasser.“
