A Busy Day
AKA Madame Charlot in France : [A Militant Suffragette], [Lady Charlie], [Busy As Can Be]
(1914) American
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by Mack Sennett

Cast: Charles Chaplin [the wife], Mack Swain [the husband], Phyllis Allen [the other woman], Billy Gilbert [policeman], Mack Sennett [film director], [?] ? [the cameraman]

Keystone Film Company production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation. / Produced by Mack Sennett. Scenario by Charles Chaplin. Cinematography by Frank D. Williams. / No copyright registration. Released 7 May 1914. Split-reel with The Morning Paper (1914). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Working title: San Pedro. [?] Completed or shipped? on 18 April 1914. The film was released in Spain on 3 February 1921; and in Finland on 27 May 1922. The film was thought to be lost, but a 16mm reduction print was recovered in 1970. [?] Website-IMDb credits the film’s direction to Charles Chaplin.

Comedy.

Survival Status: Print exists [16mm reduction positive (rerelease version)].

Keywords: Animals: Horses - Boats - Cameras (Motion picture) - Flags: American - Music: Bands - Parades - Police: Policemen - Transportation: Automobiles - Water

Listing updated: 30 March 2007.

References: Film viewing : Asplund-Chaplin p. ?; Jacobs-Chaplin pp. 30, 31, 135; Lahue-Kops p. 146; Lahue-Mack p. 295; Sloan-Loud pp. 98i, 98j, 104, 146 : Website-IMDb.

Home Video: DVD.