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  Charles Chapln (front left).
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The Face on the
Bar Room Floor

Also known as The Ham Artist in the USA; Charlot peintre in France : [The Ham Actor] : {The Face on the Barroom Floor}
(1914) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Charles Chaplin

Cast: Charles Chaplin, Cecile Arnold, Fritz Schade, Chester Conklin [a barroom patron], Harry McCoy [a barroom patron], Vivian Edwards [?] [Madeline]?, Hank Mann, Wallace MacDonald, [?] Joseph Swickard (Josef Swickard) [a barroom patron]?, [?] ? [drunken sailor]

The Keystone Film Company production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation. / Produced by Mack Sennett. Scenario by Charles Chaplin, from the poem “The Face on the Bar Room Floor” by Hugh Antoine d’Arcy. / No copyright registration. Released 10 August 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / [?] Completed or shipped? on 20 July 1914. The film was reedited and rereleased in the USA on State Rights basis as The Ham Artist by W.H. Productions Company in 1918.

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Artists - Barrooms - Children

Listing updated: 23 July 2024.

References: Film viewing : Jacobs-Chaplin p. 135; Lahue-Collecting p. 23; Lahue-Kops p. 147; Lahue-Mack p. 296; Tarbox-Lost p. 197.

Home video: DVD.

 
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