Tillie's Punctured Romance - 1960s reissue

I love these 1960s reissues of silent films -- how they manage to be informative, affectionate, yet condescending all at the same time. Here's the first few minutes of a dollar disc find.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Charlie Chaplin
• Marie Dressler

[OofusTwillip]

Hmmm... "Charlie" Chase (misspelled).

Seems like this film can't decide whether it wants to be a documentary or a comedy film. It's bloody annoying that the people behind this reissue thought the viewers were morons who couldn't figure out the action just by watching it, but needed a narrator to explain it. At least it's not a Robert Youngson compilation film. He seemed to want to be the star of those things.

[ComedyFilm]

Interesting hodgepodge of print sources used for this 1960s edition. The cast credits at the beginning, with the actors identified by photos, is lifted from a 1939 reissue, and the print of the film used as the source here appears to be the 1921 re-release, judging from the titles.

I love how the narrator provides biographical and historical information, talking over the film!

[BabkaPierogi]

Sennett might have been a little upset with the introductory paragraph & the phrase "king of comedy" applied to Chaplin as Mack proclaimed himself the very same! It would be interesting to know all the re-release dates of this film. On the internet is a pressbook from Tillie dated 1950. Notes of interest on Sennett: Was involved(in a way)with 3 Abbott & Costello films. His film, The Pharmacist was adapted for radio in 1938. It's a Mad, Mad...World(1963) duplicated a scene from a MS movie.