The kid auto race, featuring Charlie Chaplin – Vintage Print
![The kid auto race, featuring Charlie Chaplin, Cincinnati, O. : Hennegan & Co., [1914] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/3f/3f754994d7a1-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: The kid auto race, featuring Charlie Chaplin, preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The kid auto race, featuring Charlie Chaplin
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This color lithograph advertises *The Kid Auto Races at Venice*, a 1914 Keystone comedy shot at the seaside community of Venice, California, where the racing events it depicts took place. Chaplin's screen persona, the Tramp, appears in the film, and the poster presents him as the draw. The print was produced in Cincinnati by Hennegan & Co., one of the firms that turned out the large, vividly colored posters that promoted silent films to exhibitors and audiences in the 1910s. Its bold graphic style shows how early studios marketed a star's name and a comic premise together.
| Created / published | Cincinnati, O. : Hennegan & Co., [1914] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 106.5 x 71 cm. (sheet) |
| Genre | Motion picture posters 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. |
| Subjects | Chaplin, Charlie,--1889-1977--Performances. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,161 × 1,473 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218574 |
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