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Shows some early day street scenes in the surrounding Los Angeles area. http:\u002F\u002Fwww.imdb.com\u002Ftitle\u002Ftt0006684\u002F",298464646,1767744374,66829,"Archive.org",{"channelId":9,"sourceId":18,"id":18,"title":19,"description":20,"size":21,"addedAt":22,"year":6,"downloads":23,"type":9,"channelName":16},"TheFireman1916","Charlie Chaplin's \"The Fireman\" (1916)","  This gem is presented by Silent Hall of Fame.   Please visit https:\u002F\u002Fsilent-hall-of-fame.org\u002F   to support our non-profit mission and the legacy of silent movie stars by making a tax deductible contribution.   FEEL FREE TO FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @SilentFilmGems   \"The Fireman\" is one of Charlie Chaplin's Mutual short comedies, featuring Edna Purviance, a star of Silent Hall of Fame. Directed by               Charlie Chaplin Produced by             Lone Star Corporation Scenario by                Charlie Chaplin           Starring                     Charlie Chaplin, Eric Campbell, Edna Purviance Cinematography        Roland H. Totheroh and W.C. Foster Distributed by           Mutual Film Corporation Release date               June 12, 1916 Running time             24 min. Country                      United States Language                    Silent film, English intertitles Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976: \"Allowance is made for \"fair use\" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. 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Foster Roland Totheroh Edited by Charlie Chaplin Distributed by Mutual Film Corporation Release date June 12, 1916 Running time 32 minutes Country United States Languages Silent film English intertitles The Fireman is the second film Charlie Chaplin distributed by the Mutual Film Corporation in 1916. Released on June 12, it starred Chaplin as the fireman and Edna Purviance as the daughter to Lloyd Bacon . Plot A group of firemen, led by their foreman ( Eric Campbell ), practice in the fire station, but one is missing ... Charlie. He is still sleeping. The bell eventually wakes him and he slides down the pole to join the others. He reverses the pair of horses onto the fire engine and drives off, but without the others. He reverses the horses back again. Their first task is to polish the engine, but a lot of butt-kicking ensues. During their meal break Charlie uses the engine as a giant water urn and serves an unappetising soup to the others. A young woman comes to the station with her aristocratic father, and the foreman sends Charlie away so he can talk with the father. Charlie and the girl flirt on one side of the station while the girl's father (Bacon) arranges with the local fire chief to have his house burn down so he can collect the insurance money. In exchange for the chief's complicity in the arson, the father will permit the fire chief to marry his daughter. However, a real fire breaks out elsewhere in the town. The owner uses a public alarm to signal to the station but Charlie and another fireman continue to play draughts and ignore the alarm, putting a cloth in the bell to stop it ringing. The worried man then phones the fire station but they still ignore him. Finally he goes to the fire station in person. Eventually Charlie understands the predicament, and finds the fire chief at the girl's house and the company rush to extinguish the fire. Charlie mans the hose but his aim is poor and the chief has to take over. Meanwhile, the father deliberately sets a fire in the basement of his own house without realizing that his daughter is still inside the house on the upper floor. Upon knowing his daughter is in mortal danger from the fire, he rushes to find the fire chief to cancel the arrangement not to extinguish his house fire. The fireman (Chaplin), who is also in love with the daughter, abandons the first house fire (taking the fire engine and water) to rush to the second one. The water tank falls off during the rush. He heroically scales the outside of the building to save her, carrying her back down the face of the building, but then fainting. When he revives he and the girl go off arm in arm. Reviews A critic for the New York Dramatic Mirror wrote, \" The Fireman is the second of the Chaplin Mutual comedies, presenting that well-known hero in a whirl of fun and laughter that compares favorably with the best work he has yet done on the screen.\" A reviewer from the Chicago Tribune was more critical in his appraisal of The Fireman . He wrote, \"There is more of soup-spilling and Keystone kicking than is necessary for successful slapsticking, but there is also a certain novelty of situation and a jolly humor in its expression that moves to much mirth. Charles Chaplin is a true comedian who doesn't need to resort to the conflict of the physical to make fun. He has a sufficiently mobile expression to do that.\" Production background The film shows some early morning street scenes in the surrounding Los Angeles area. The film makes use of reversing the film several times for comic effect: sliding up the fireman's pole, reversing the horses, hurrying back to station (in reverse) when he forgets the crew etc. The huge water tank in the station also comically has a second function as the coffee machine. Cast Charlie Chaplin as Fireman Edna Purviance as Girl Lloyd Bacon as Her Father Eric Campbell as Foreman of the Brigade Leo White as Owner of Burning House Albert Austin as Fireman John Rand as Fireman James T. Kelley as Fireman Frank J. Coleman as Fireman Sound version In 1932, Amedee Van Beuren of Van Beuren Studios, purchased Chaplin's Mutual comedies for $10,000 each, added music by Gene Rodemich and Winston Sharples and sound effects, and re-released them through RKO Radio Pictures . Chaplin had no legal recourse to stop the RKO release. [ 1 ] References 1 \"SilentComedians.com :: View topic - ReelclassicDVD's release of the van Beuren Chaplin Mutuals\" . 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