This 16 minute flick is no where near his very best or indeed his keystone best but the film from a historical points out why Chaplin and his tramp became the greatest success in popular entertainment up to that time. Chaplin quickly mastered the new medium and here he circumvents normal morals by playing to the popular crowd which at the time was very the poor, the working class and the exploited so the little tramps cruelty seemed then to be not just funny but clever in a way that simply does play to modern manners. Chaplin was still learning his trade when this short was put to celluloid way back in 1914 but even then he knew what cinema and entertainment was all about. Today 100 and more years on it is clear that Chaplin was not only an artist but a genius and a pioneer and innovator of deserved legendary status.
Review of His New Profession
