The Criterion Collection

The Kid

Edition no. 799

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Release Date: Tuesday, 16 February 2016
Country of Release: USA
MSRP: $29.95

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Directed by: Charlie Chaplin

Featuring: Charlie Chaplin, Carl Miller, Edna Purviance, Jack Coogan

Charlie Chaplin was already an international star when he decided to break out of the short-film format and make his first full-length feature. The Kid doesn’t merely show Chaplin at a turning point, when he proved that he was a serious film director—it remains an expressive masterwork of silent cinema. In it, he stars as his lovable Tramp character, this time raising an orphan (a remarkable young Jackie Coogan) he has rescued from the streets. Chaplin and Coogan make a miraculous pair in this nimble marriage of sentiment and slapstick, a film that is, as its opening title card states, “a picture with a smile—and perhaps, a tear.”

Year: 1921
Time: 53 min.

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Format:

DVD

Disc:

DVD-9 (1 Disc)

Total: 1 Disc

Regions:

1 (DVD)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33:1

Audio Options:

English Dolby Digital Mono 1.0

Subtitles:

English

Supplements

Types of Supplements Included: Audio Commentary, Video Essay, Video Presentation, Interview, Audio Interview, Deleted Scenes, Newsreel Footage, Behind the Scenes Footage, Short Film, Theatrical Trailer, Insert

New audio commentary featuring Chaplin historian Charles Maland
Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star, a new video essay by Chaplin historian Lisa Haven
A Study in Undercranking, a new program featuring silent-film specialist Ben Model
Interviews with Jack Coogan and actor Lita Grey Chaplin
Excerpted audio interviews with cinematographer Rollie Totheroh and film distributor Mo Rothman
Deleted scenes and titles from the original 1921 version of The Kid

Footage of Charlie Chaplin conducting his score for The Kid

Nice and Friendly, a 1922 silent short featuring Chaplin and Coogan, presented with a new score by composer Timothy Brock

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An essay by film scholar Tom Gunning

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