In the Park (1915)
Chaplin's Essanay Comedies (1915)
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IN THE PARK was the first of two one-reel comedies Chaplin created for Essanay. Chaplin hastily made the film in San Francisco at the request of the company as the result of the prolonged production of his previous film, The Champion. The film, which involves Charlie interfering in the lives of two star-crossed lovers, has the same improvisational feel of the simple park comedies
made at Keystone, and is nearly a remake of the Keystone one-reel park comedy, Twenty Minutes of Love (1914).
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