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The Kid

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The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put their relationship in jeopardy.

Funny, I was just thinking about this... Easily one of my favorite Chaplin films! Jackie Coogan was such an adorable little boy, very different looking than when he played Uncle Fester on "The Addams Family" in the 1960s.

keebler@TNT posted the shorter 53-minute version, which I presume is the U.K. rerelease. It has a tighter edit. Chaplin tinkered with his older movies long before George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola did on theirs. [Code] Password: [Code] [Code]

The video Unigami posted... "This video contains content from CPR Agency for MK2, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds"

Oof

It's streaming for Free on Justwatch TV anyway (Shouldn't be Geo-Restricted.. Just click the big yellow play button at the top of the page)

https://www.justwatch.com/au/movie/char ... in-the-kid

Cool Unigami thanks! I have seen Chaplin films but I do not think this one. Thanks Night for the BluRip and Moonee for the colorized verison.

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Night457 wrote: Thu Sep 11, 2025 12:44 pmChaplin tinkered with his older movies long before George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola did on theirs.

IMDB wrote:A new version was reissued in 1972 with a new music score composed by Charles Chaplin, who also re-edited the film in order to omit a few scenes featuring the kid's mother.

I always like to see multiple versions of a movie so that I can decide for myself if the Old Man Director Revision was necessary or a sign of senility. (Sorry, Charlie.) And I can only make a fair comparison if they are basically equivalent quality. Sadly, the YouTube video that Unigami posted has a fuzzy picture and is not quite what I hoped for. But I can search!

It seems that only the Swedes and Finns have released the longer original version on BluRay.
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Kid-Blu-ray/43208/
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Kid-Blu-ray/50973/
My search skills for Scandinavian BluRips reached their limit.

Fortunately the original uncut version has been preserved in great-looking quality on Wikipedia and YouTube.
Unfortunately it is truly SILENT with no score. Maybe I can play a CD while watching it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Kid_(1921).webm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjqCsCfTDhE

1080p uncut SILENT 18fps [Code] But OK.ru has a 720p uncut version WITH a music score.
https://ok.ru/video/9160783759922

720p uncut with score 19.981 fps [Code] 16fps was standard Silent framerate, but they did go up to 18. Maybe the OK.ru higher framerate was to fit the chosen music.

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oh, I didn't even realise there was a coloured version lol

I just posted the link without even watching it

citronleaf wrote: Thu Sep 11, 2025 5:07 pm Cool Unigami thanks! I have seen Chaplin films but I do not think this one. Thanks Night for the BluRip and Moonee for the colorized verison.

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Thanks so CitronLeaf. I'd better look through your archives sometime.

And Night, Moonee too. Very much.