Clip of the orphanage, coming to take away the kid - from The Kid · Early and Silent Cinema, 1895-1929

Clip of the orphanage, coming to take away the kid - from The Kid

Title: Clip of the orphanage, coming to take away the kid - from The Kid
Creator: Charlie Chaplin
Date: 1921
Description: This is the most emotional part of the film, when someone from the orphanage comes to take the child away from Charlie.
Scholarly Significance: Chaplin's use of cross-cutting has given this sequence a tense treatment, with one side of the house, where the child has been snatched and placed in a truck at the orphanage, and the other side of the house, where the homeless man is trapped and unable to extract himself. If there had been any more delay, it could have been the parting of father and son forever. At this point the homeless man changes his weak appearance to that of a flying fighter. After completing the rescue, the father and son kissed each other hard in the back of the truck, a scene that almost brings tears to people's eye every time they re-watch it.
Cataloguer: Yuan Yuan

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