The kid
(DVD)

Originally released as a 1972 version of the 1921 motion picture.

Restored by the Cineteca di Bologna.

Distributed by Janus Films and MK2 Diffusion.

Special features: Commentary (new audio commentary featuring Chaplin scholar Charles Maland); Interviews: Jackie Coogan (recorded by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill for the 1980 British television series Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film), Lita Grey Chaplin (recalls her role in the film and her marriage to Chaplin at sixteen), Rollie Totheroh (recalls the editing of the film), Mo Rotheman (the distributor discusses the film with Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance); Jackie Coogan: the first child star (a new video essay by Chaplin scholar Lisa Haven); A study in undercranking (silent-film specialist Ben Model looks at how Chaplin used filming and projecting speeds to create unique gags only for silent film); Charlie Chaplin conducts The kid (Chaplin conducting the film score); From the 1921 version (deleted scenes and titles from the original 1921 version of The Kid); "Charlie" on the ocean (1921 newsreel from Chaplins first trip back to Europe after becoming an American actor); Nice and friendly (1922 short presented with new score by Timothy Brock); excerpted audio interviews; Trailers. Insert includes essay by film scholar Tom Gunning.

Music composed by Charlie Chaplin ; music orchestrated and conducted by Eric Rogers ; cinematography, Roland "Rollie" Totheroh ; editor, Charlie Chaplin.

Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Jack Coogan, Carl Miller.

The Tramp and his ragamuffin sidekick, a young boy rescued from the streets, triumph over life's hard knocks in the landmark film that changed the notion of what a screen comedy could be.

DVD format, NTSC, region 1 ; fullscreen (1.33:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono.

Silent film, with musical accompaniement and English intertitles.