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Charles Chaplin
A First National Collection
(1918-1923)

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,
including A Day’s Pleasure (1919), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Idle Class (1921), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Pay Day (1922), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Pilgrim (1923), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Shoulder Arms (1918), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Sunnyside (1919), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

CBS/Fox Home Video, distributed by Image Entertainment,
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.

 
USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.
 
Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.

Other silent era CHARLES CHAPLIN films available on home video.

Other silent era SHORT COMEDY COLLECTIONS available on home video.

Charles Chaplin filmography in The Progressive Silent Film List

 
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