Grading The Chaplin Features...

Shush wrote:

> Feuillade wrote:
> > Constance Kuriyama wrote:
> >
> > > We just analyzed two scenes from GR and _Kid Brother_
> > > in my film comedy class--the scenes where Charlie keeps
> > > trying to avoid the barrel of Black Larsen's shotgun, and
> > > Harold tries to keep from being seen by the murderous
> > > strong man--the second obviously a variation of the same
> > > gag.

> > And Chaplin's gag is a variant of one that Buster Keaton did the year
> > before in "The Navigator."

> You see a similar thing in Raymond Griffith's PATHS TO PARADISE
> (1924). Jewel thief Griffith is hiding in a dark room and has to
> frantically dodge a policeman's flashlight beam to keep from being
> discovered; it's one of the film's best scenes.

That's one of the scenes that really has to be seen on a big screen for
it to work. The gag is lost on a video.

Tom Moran