The kid auto race, featuring Charlie Chaplin – Antique Print
![The kid auto race, featuring Charlie Chaplin, Cincinnati, O. : Hennegan & Co., [1914] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/43/43b9b5a36292-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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of The kid auto race, featuring Charlie Chaplin. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The kid auto race, featuring Charlie Chaplin
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Here Charlie Chaplin appears in a poster for a short Keystone comedy filmed at a real automobile race in Venice, California, in early 1914. Chaplin's tramp character, with its baggy trousers, oversized shoes, and small mustache, is often cited as making its first screen appearance in this film, which makes the poster an early record of a figure who would soon become one of the best-known comic personas of the silent era. Hennegan & Co. of Cincinnati printed the sheet as a color lithograph, the standard method for theater advertising of the period.
| 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 | 949 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-165806 |
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