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Movie Detail Name Occurs Before Title Offscreen Credit Print Viewed By AFI Stub Record The Kid Director: Charles Chaplin (Dir) Release Date:   6 Feb 1921 Duration (in feet):   5,300 Duration (in reels):   6 Print this page Display Movie Summary Available Formats Facets DVD VHS LaserDisk Image DVD VHS LaserDisk Movies Unlimited DVD VHS LaserDisk Cast: The Principal Characters: Carl Miller (The man)       Edna Purviance (The woman)       Jack Coogan (The Child)       Charles Chaplin (A tramp)       Tom Wilson (The policeman)       Chuck Reisner (The Bully)       Albert Austin (A crook)       Nellie Bly Baker (Slum woman)       Henry Bergman (Proprietor of lodging house)       Lita Grey (The Flirting Angel)   Summary: A tenement tramp finds and raises The Kid, an abandoned baby, as his own. The baby's mother, The Woman, achieves fame as a singer and 5 years later is reconciled to the husband who has forsaken her. When the child is ordered removed to an orphan asylum, The Tramp rescues him and the parents find their long-lost son. Disconsolate over the loss of The Kid, The Tramp returns home, where he is found by a policeman who reunites him with The Woman and The Kid.  Production Company: Charles Chaplin Productions   Distribution Company: Associated First National Pictures   Director: Charles Chaplin (Dir)   Chuck Reisner (Assoc dir) Producer: Charles Chaplin (Prod) Writer: Charles Chaplin (Wrt) Photography: Rollie Totheroh (Dir of photog) Country: United States Language: English Music: Songs: Source Text: Copyright Claimant Copyright Date Copyright Number Charles Chaplin 17/1/1921 dd/mm/yyyy LP16019 Physical Properties: b&w:   Si:   Genre: Comedy-drama   Subjects (Major): Illegitimacy   Mothers and sons   Singers   Tramps   Waifs   Subjects (Minor): Charity   Dreams   Painters (Of paintings)   Physicians   Police   Tenement-houses   Unmarried mothers Note: The Kid was the first feature film written and directed by comedian Charles Chaplin. Although not his debut, The Kid launched the career of child actor Jackie Coogan.  Bibliographic Sources:   Date   Page Film Daily   16 Jan 1921   p. 5. Motion Picture News   29 Jan 1921   p. 1077. New York Times   22 Jan 1921   p. 9. Variety   21 Jan 1921   p. 40. Display Movie Summary

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