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The Tramp wanders into and disrupts the filming of a go-kart race.The Tramp wanders into and disrupts the filming of a go-kart race.The Tramp wanders into and disrupts the filming of a go-kart race.
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- Director
- Writers
- Henry Lehrman
- Charles Chaplin(uncredited)
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- TriviaThis was the first film in which Charles Chaplin played his most famous character, The Tramp. With only a small number of exceptions, Chaplin would play only The Tramp (or slight variations on the character) on film until The Great Dictator (1940).
- ConnectionsEdited into When Comedy Was King (1960)
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Despite it hasn't got much of a plot it's Chaplin's introduction to the his ''Tramp'' character
In 1914 Charlie Chaplin debuted with the Mack Sennett shorts for Keystone. These shorts were made in rapid succession and while some are great, some are ok (like this one) and some are bad. Despite the results they were all released in theaters. These early shorts are pretty much like home videos (like the ones played on AMERICA'S FUNNIEST VIDEOS) with people that do stupid things and in the end they have pratfalls. His tramp character (that debuted here) was still evolving as he switched to Essenay studios a year later. He stopped this evolution process with his full-length movies in the 1920s.
In this short, as I said in the summary, there isn't much plot. The Keystone crew went on a kid auto race and they told Chaplin to just wander around and coming in and out of the track. The only thing that happens beside this is that he is sometimes punched by few adults for getting in the track. The only thing for which this short is important is because we have a first shot of Chaplin's most famous character.
In this short, as I said in the summary, there isn't much plot. The Keystone crew went on a kid auto race and they told Chaplin to just wander around and coming in and out of the track. The only thing that happens beside this is that he is sometimes punched by few adults for getting in the track. The only thing for which this short is important is because we have a first shot of Chaplin's most famous character.
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- bellino-angelo2014
- Aug 26, 2019
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- Kids Auto Races
- Filming locations
- 1300 Main Street, Los Angeles, California, USA(intersection where filming took place)
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- Runtime11 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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By what name was Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914) officially released in Canada in English?
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