The second of two one-reel shorts Chaplin made for Essanay, the film was shot around Crystal Pier in Los Angeles in just one day. This extended improvisation includes Caplin's first use of the flea routine, which he would develop futher for his 1952 feature film, Limelight.In Chaplin's Essanay Comedies, made in 1915, cinema's greatest comedian was first able to build his screen work around his performance style rather than forcing himself, as before, into Mack Sennett's frenzied Keystone comedy matrix. With this freedom
Chaplin evolved in a year from the gag comedian of "His New Job" to the brilliant pantomimist of "A Night Out," "The Champion," "The Tramp" and "Shanghaied" to the profound satirist of "Police."
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