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Making a Living - Charlie Chaplin’s first movie - February 2, 1914

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Making A Living, made in 1914 for the Keystone movie studio, was Charlie Chaplin‘s first movie role. In many ways, it is a typical Keystone picture, short (15 minutes) with lots of slapstick and energy. In it, Charlie Chaplin stars as a swindler who tries to become a reporter, stealing a competing reporter’s camera with a picture of a car going over a cliff, taking credit for the photo himself, and then trying to avoid the other photographer when the picture gets published.

In short, a high-energy film, entertaining though not laugh-out-loud funny, mostly worth seeing for its’ historical interest as Charlie Chaplin’s first film appearance.

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