#“kid auto races at venice”

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The tramp and the public meet for the first time - Cinema would never be the same.

Charlie Chaplin’s second film for the Keystone Studios, his first as his creation “the tramp”. Though technically his tramp character stepped in front of a movie camera first on “Mabel’s Strange Predicament” though released two days after “Kid Auto Races at Venice” released February 7th 1914.

"Kid Auto Races at Venice" - this is the second film in which Charlie Chaplin appeared. It was filmed in 1914 and directed by Henry Lehrman. The film was made during the Junior Vanderbilt Cup, an actual race. The characters played by Chaplin and Lehrman improvise gags in the presence of real observers (not actors).

The film "Kid Auto Races at Venice" is extremely important as a comedy in which viewers first saw Chaplin's character - the Tramp. It is also invaluable because it gives you the opportunity to learn about the first audience's reaction to Chaplin's character - the motor racing spectators - and their reactions to his comic antics. In the improvised film (allegedly shot in just forty-five minutes), a comical situation occurs in which Tramp constantly disturbs the cameraman. At first, viewers don't know what to make of this funny boy. Is he really a nuisance? As the action continues, their surprise turns into real fun. Unlike other screen comedians, Chaplin immediately creates oneness with his audience. It was a kind of film experiment.

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Happy 100th birthday to the Little Tramp

It was 100 years ago today (Feb. 7, 1914) that Charlie Chaplin's iconic Little Tramp character first appeared in a film called Kid Auto Races at Venice. It was, like most films of the day, a short film, apparently improvised, in which Chaplin, dressed as his character, was filmed at a real-life cart race event in Venice, California, causing havoc. It wasn't Charlie's first film - he'd played a bit of a villain in an earlier film released less than a week earlier, and had already filmed his first Tramp movie, but it wouldn't come out until a few days after this one - but this was the one that introduced to the public the character he would play for the next 22 years (up until the classic Modern Times in 1936, not counting a talking variant he played in The Great Dictator a few years after that). And the level of his influence on people like Robin Williams and Jim Carrey was profound.

I wonder if the people attending the event back in 1914 realized they were seeing history in the making?

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February 7, 1914 saw the release of Henry Lehrman’s KID AUTO RACES AT VENICE in which audiences saw Charles Chaplin’s “Little Tramp” character for the first time. #OnThisDay

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The Tramp, played by Charlie Chaplin! The character first debuted in the 1914 film "Kid Auto Races at Venice", which was Chaplin's second released film.

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“Kids Auto Races In Venice” (1914)

David Robinson discusses how Charlie Chaplin’s second film came to be.

Henry Lehrman’s 1914 “Kids Auto Races In Venice” was filmed at the Junior Vanderbilt Cup, an actual race. Chaplin and Lehrman’s characters improvise gags in front of real spectators. The camera unusually breaks the fourth wall (x), showing a second camera recording the footage (as if it were the main camera) to better convey the joke. In this way, Chaplin’s character enters the frame of the camera the viewer is watching on the screen, rather than the actual camera recording the film. This allows the entire situation to be seen from the perspective of a fan. This makes the production one of the first released films to show a recording camera and a cameraman at work.

David Robinson is the official biographer of Charlie Chaplin and his book, Chaplin: His Life and Art, was first published in 1985 (in a revised form in 1992 and 2001). An illustrated biography entitled Charlie Chaplin: The Art of Comedy was published by Thames & Hudson in 1996, as part of their ‘New Horizons’ series. Robinson is the only writer to have gained access to Chaplin's closely guarded private archive. The materials obtained there were supplemented with documents from London archives, from the annuals of old daily newspapers, and from theater and film press.

David Robinson on Charlie Chaplin “ Kids Auto Races In Venice” (1914)

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Charlie Chaplin's Kids Auto Race At Venice

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Charlie Chaplin ile hatıra karesi ☺️📸 İngiliz sinema yönetmeni, oyuncu, yazar, film müziği bestecisi, kurgucu ve komedyen. Yarattığı "Şarlo" karakteri ile özdeşleşmiştir. 1914'teki ilk filmi Making A Living'in ardından çekilen Kid Auto Races in Venice filminde bol pantolonlu, melon şapkalı, büyük ayakkabılı, sürekli bastonunu çeviren ve sakar hareketleri ile gülünç mizansenler oluşturan "Şarlo" tiplemesini yarattı. #charliechaplin #gezginnerede #şarlo #komedyen #anma #oyuncu #sessizfilm (Ankara,Kızılay) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmmVN_QtC6c/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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“Kid Auto Races at Venice” 1914, ”Work” 1915, ”The Immigrant"1917, ”Sunnyside” 1919,”The Kid” 1921,”The Gold Rush” 1925, ”The Circus” 1928,”City Lights” 1931, ”Modern Times” 1936.

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The Kid Auto Race in Venice (1914) [4K + Colorization]

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KID AUTO RACES AT VENICE

Henry Lehrman, 1914

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Colorized photo of Charlie Chaplin's film "Kid Auto Races at Venice, Cal"

The first time the viewing public and film audiences meet Charlie Chaplin’s tramp character.

The people in the background of this picture have no idea they are witnessing the birth of an icon. They are just there to watch the auto race not realizing an actual film is being shot, funny some of the reactions they give to the tramp, they think he is just some annoying guy constantly getting in the way.

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December 14, 2020

By Neda Ulaby

The Library of Congress tries to raise awareness of film conservation every year by adding 25 movies to the National Film Registry to preserve for posterity.

As usual, 2020's lineup includes attention-grabbing Hollywood blockbusters of relatively recent vintage (The Dark Knight and Shrek), widely beloved older features (Grease, The Blues Brothers, A Clockwork Orange), respected documentaries (The Buena Vista Social Club, Wattstax, Freedom Riders), venerable silent films (Kid Auto Races At Venice, apparently one of the few Charlie Chaplin movies not already inducted) and films from Hollywood's Golden Age, underground movies, influential but lesser-known films and early work from seminal directors...

1. Suspense (1913)

2. Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914)

3. Bread (1918)

4. The Battle of the Century (1927)

5. With Car and Camera Around the World (1929)

6. Cabin in the Sky (1943)

7. Outrage (1950)

8. The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)

9. Lilies of the Field (1963)

10. A Clockwork Orange (1971)

11. Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)

12. Wattstax (1973)

13. Grease (1978)

14. The Blues Brothers (1980)

15. Losing Ground (1982)

16. Illusions (1982)

17. The Joy Luck Club (1993)

18. The Devil Never Sleeps (1994)

19. Buena Vista Social Club (1999)

20. The Ground (1993-2001)

21. Shrek (2001)

22. Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege (2006)

23. The Hurt Locker (2008)

24. The Dark Knight (2008)

25. Freedom Riders (2010)

It’s about time for Cabin in the Sky (seriously, how wasn’t it in the Registry earlier?) and Kid Auto Races at Venice. Lilies of the Field AND Sweet Sweetback’s? The contrast! Big credit to The Joy Luck Club and Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege - few films in the Registry look anything like them. And two culture-altering films of 2008 - The Hurt Locker and The Dark Knight both make it. And though I may thoroughly dislike Shrek, it is fully deserving of its place here.

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“Kid Auto Races at Venice, Ca” 1914 (Keystone)

The first time the viewing public and film audience meet Charlie Chaplin’s tramp character.

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Charlie Chaplin debuted the little Tramp #OnThisDay in 1914 with the release of KID AUTO RACES AT VENICE.

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Charlie Chaplin sticking out his tongue at the cameraman in "The Kid Auto Races at Venice" (1914). This was Chaplin's first role starring as "The Tramp"