Charlie Chaplin in Easy Street!

[Dr. Blasko]

Ask anyone who knows me well, and they will tell you how much I love silent films, especially those with Charlie Chaplin. Lo and behold, at a restaurant/aviation museum called Barnstormers in Williamson, GA, there was this little beauty:










Best part? It works!















I couldn't sneak it out

[general gruesome]

awesome! totally awesome! I'm a fan of silent films as well, and Chaplin is one of the greats! watched a lot of his work

[Bonomo]

WOW

[typhooforme]

What.a.wonderful.thing.to.experience,.Blasko!...Mutoscopes.are.so.cool.to.see.in.action!

Glad.there.are.other.silent.fans.around.here,.too--I'm.more.a.Keaton.and.Lloyd.fan,.but.I.respect.Chaplin,
too--oddly,.I.like.his.talkies.more.than.his.silents!...I.wrote.to.Chaplin.when.he.was.very.old.and.got.his.
autograph.on.a.little.photo.card.I.made...Back.in.the.'60s-70s.I.wrote.to/corresponded.with.a.good.many.
silent.performers..All.gone.now.but.a.miniscule.handful...

[Illoman]

What.a.wonderful.thing.to.experience,.Blasko!...Mutoscopes.are.so.cool.to.see.in.action!

Glad.there.are.other.silent.fans.around.here,.too--I'm.more.a.Keaton.and.Lloyd.fan,.but.I.respect.Chaplin,
too--oddly,.I.like.his.talkies.more.than.his.silents!...I.wrote.to.Chaplin.when.he.was.very.old.and.got.his.
autograph.on.a.little.photo.card.I.made...Back.in.the.'60s-70s.I.wrote.to/corresponded.with.a.good.many.
silent.performers..All.gone.now.but.a.miniscule.handful...

When the nostalgia craze of the 70's started I was 10 years old. My dad introduced me to the films of Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Bros, and WC Fields. It started a lifelong interest in these folks. I much prefer their kind of humor to what passes for humor today.

[Haunted hearse]

Does anybody remember when Disneyland had a lot of these coin operated viewers in their arcade?  Great find.  They only left a few on Main St. at the Anaheim Ca. park, and you really don't see these much now days.  What a shame.

[mjaycox]

Excellent! Instead of a Horrorscope Monster viewer, we have a Humor-scope Chaplin Viewer! take THAT, MPC.

[Scatter]

WOWWWWW!!! I echo you Doc...........anyone who knows me knows I love Silent Film too, and Chaplin was pure genius!! Nice to know there are still a few of us out there!!

[CreepysFan]

   

  DUDE....thats awesome.  If that's yours, i'm so green wiith envy.  If it's still at Barnstormers.....give me their address.....then forget you gave it to me.  If it dissapears, you don't know anything.

[Dr. Blasko]

   

  DUDE....thats awesome.  If that's yours, i'm so green wiith envy.  If it's still at Barnstormers.....give me their address.....then forget you gave it to me.  If it dissapears, you don't know anything.

I tried sneaking it out under my shirt. Didn't work.

[Sean]

Cool find!

[BijouBob8mm]

EASY STREET was the first Chaplin film I'd ever seen, when my grandmother gave me a 200' 8mm digest of the film (released under the title "The Cops") for Christmas one year.  (Eventually I picked up the complete 400' reel in Super 8, via Blackhawk Films.)

At Disney World, in the Seventies, I got to see a Chaplin short on a machine similar to that in one of the Main Street attractions.  I can't recall the title offhand, but I seem to remember Chaplin lugging bags of flour.

[Monsters For Sale]

EASY STREET was the first Chaplin film I'd ever seen, when my grandmother gave me a 200' 8mm digest of the film (released under the title "The Cops") for Christmas one year.  (Eventually I picked up the complete 400' reel in Super 8, via Blackhawk Films.)

At Disney World, in the Seventies, I got to see a Chaplin short on a machine similar to that in one of the Main Street attractions.  I can't recall the title offhand, but I seem to remember Chaplin lugging bags of flour.

Could be this one:

Rebecca Rubin - Dough and Dynamite movie with Charlie Chaplin

[BijouBob8mm]

To quote a line from A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS, "That's it!"