Saw The Kid, a Charlie Chaplain film. In this one the Little Tramp finds a baby and, after trying to fob it off to nannies and policemen, raises it as his own. The baby matures into the titular Kid and they have cute little adventures together. This one promises the audience it will be a bit more sad than Chaplain's other films, but I noted no such bonus sadness. The film is very of its era, noodling along cutely and episodically until it abruptly ends happily ever after. There's a scene with angels which I thought was cute however it happens five minutes from the end of the film by which point I was sort of anticipating it being over already.
Not much to say about this one except that it's in the public domain and is very available, however the quality varies wildly. The Amazon prime version which I watched is actually missing the top 10% of the screen yet the version on youtube is missing about 15 minutes of footage, god only knows what. I wish there were a government body that would preserve art that had fallen into the public domain. There must be a best version somewhere. Let's put it on a website, let it stream for free, and let culture benefit from the available art, okay? Whatever. Cute noodley little film.
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