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The Pawnshop (1916)

Name: The Pawnshop
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1916
Duration: 24 min
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Henry Bergman, Wesley Ruggles, Albert Austin, Eric Campbell

191625 minComedy✓ Verified rightsSilent · CC0 piano score

The Pawnshop (1916) is a 25-minute comedy short film that airs free on Starlite TV's Silent Pictures (CH 12) channel. It is a silent film, presented with a public-domain (CC0) piano score. It is in the U.S. public domain. Directed by Charlie Chaplin.

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About The Pawnshop (1916)

The Pawnshop is Charlie Chaplin's sixth film for Mutual Film Corporation. Released on October 2, 1916, it stars Chaplin in the role of assistant to the pawnshop owner, played by Henry Bergman.

An assistant in a pawnshop run by Henry Bergman goes about his job in a comedic manner: insulting various eccentric customers and dusting an electric fan while it is running. Quarreling over a ladder, the assistant engages in a slapstick battles with his fellow pawnshop assistant and is fired. The pawnbroker gives the assistant a second chance because of his "eleven children"—a fiction which the assistant has hastily invented for the occasion. In the kitchen the assistant flirts with the pawnbroker's attractive daughter, helping her dry dishes by passing them through a clothes wringer.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article The Pawnshop (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast includes: Charlie Chaplin, Henry Bergman, Wesley Ruggles, Albert Austin, Eric Campbell, Leo White, James T. Kelley, John Rand
Country: United States

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Airs on

Silent Pictures - CH 12, Silent Film TV

Rights & source

Basis: Published before 1931 - U.S. copyright term expired
Evidence: First published 1916 (before 1931): US copyright term has expired.
Music: Silent copy with no audio track; CC0 piano bed is played.
Underlying rights: Chaplin Mutual.
Source: Internet Archive

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