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Charles Chaplin
A First National Collection
(1918-1923)
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Contents: A Day’s Pleasure (1919), The Idle Class (1921), Pay Day (1922), The Pilgrim (1923), Shoulder Arms (1918) and Sunnyside (1919).

This collection contains the last of Charles Chaplin’s short films, made under his First National contract.

2000 CBS/Fox Home Video edition

Charles Chaplin: A First National Collection (1918-1923), black & white, 206 minutes total, not rated.

CBS/Fox Home Video, ID9177CUDVD, UPC 0-14381-91772-7.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, single-layered DVD disc, Region 1, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo and mono sound, English intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, snapper case, $29.99.
DVD release date: 8 February 2000.
Country of origin: USA

We have not seen this DVD. It appears that the masters from the 1993 Chaplin: A Legacy of Laughter laserdisc series will be utilized for this and other year 2000 Chaplin DVD releases. This disc is now contractually out-of-print to make way for another Chaplin family-authorized compilation of these films.

 
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a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.
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a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.

Other silent era Charles Chaplin DVDs available on DVD home video:
Chaplin’s Essanay Comedies Volume 1 (1915)
Chaplin’s Essanay Comedies Volume 2 (1915)
Chaplin’s Essanay Comedies Volume 3 (1915-1918)
The Chaplin Mutual Comedies, 90th Anniversary Edition (1916-1917)
The Chaplin Revue (1918-1923)
The Circus (1928)
City Lights (1931)
The Gold Rush (1925)
The Kid (1921)
Tillie’s Punctured Romance (1914)
A Woman of Paris (1923)

Chaplin-related films available on DVD home video:
Chaplin’s Goliath (1996)
Unknown Chaplin (1983)

Charles Chaplin filmography in The Progressive Silent Film List

 
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