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Moving Picture World, New York, February 6, 1915.
The First Essanay-Chaplin Revue of 1916
Today
Screen Time 1 Hour 17 Minutes
(...) Moving Picture World, Dec. 16, 1916
„Without any scenario whatever“
Editorial content. „,His New Job‘ (Essanay).
Charles Chaplin will appear in his first Essanay
photoplay His New Job on February 1. This comedy
is declared by critics who have seen it to be the funniest comedy
ever filmed. It is simply a riot of fun from start to finish.
,It is the very best comedy I ever produced,‘ is what Mr.
Chaplin says of it himself. ,The new surroundings and
the clever actors whom I had to work with enabled me to make
the greatest comedy of my life. I couldn‘t help laughing
at it myself when I saw it on the screen.‘
This two reel comedy is just what its title indicates.
Mr. Chaplin built it up on the fact his coming to the Essanay
company, though he has instilled incidents into it
that would make a Methodist deacon shrink with laughter.
Mr. Chaplin produced the play without any
scenario whatever, although he had carefully thought out the
outlines of his plot before-hand. Most of the incidents
and practically all of the little mirth producing tricks were
extemporaneous, however, Mr. Chaplin originating
them as the camera clicking out the film.
The result is that the comedy is the most original and
the fun the most spontaneous and unstilted of any
ever produced. Mr. Chaplin was ably assisted in his work
ba Ben Turpin, one of the oldest comedians in time
of service in the motion picture business. The two men are
nearly of a size and make a team that cannot be
beaten. Turpin‘s absurd physique together with Chaplin‘s
peculiar capers and wonderful facial expressions
make them a pair unique to the motion picture comedy
stage.
Exhibitors from all over the country have written
Essanay inquiring about the first release, and the comedy
bids fair to be a world beater in the output.“
Photo. Ben Turpin, Charles Chaplin.
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