Silent Saturday Continues With a Chaplin Classic

Join 'Cinema 80' at the Franklin Historical Museum, for another Silent Saturday with The Kid, Charlie Chaplin's crowning achievement, using pantomime humor to tell a memorable and heartfelt story.

The Kid premiered on January 21, 1921, at Carnegie Hall in New York City as a benefit for the Children's Fund of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.

The Reviewer from The Chicago Herald and Examiner, wrote:

The Kid settles once and for all the question as to who is the greatest theatrical artist in the world. Chaplin does some of the finest, most delicately shaded acting you ever saw anywhere, and for every slapstick furore in it there is a classic, exquisite scene. His action are riotous, convulsive, irresistible. The gentlest grandmother will bust a midriff. He's the best Hamlet alive today. Jackie Coogan is the best child actor you ever saw. Women wept just to see him. The Kid is two fisted. It's right glove is packed with the pearls of tears, its left with the horseshoe of laughter. The picture is perfection. Six reels that seem like one; six reels that are funnier than the work of any other human being; six reels that are sadder and simpler than anything in pictures; six reels that will atone for anything the movies have ever done.

Silent Saturdays start at 6 pm on each Saturday of the month (except the last): Chris. Leverone, a videographer and graphics artist from Franklin, who has directed promotional and fundraising videos, and is currently a producer at Franklin TV, developed this program of films in cooperation with the Franklin Senior Center. The Museum (and Cinema 80) are located at 80 West Central Street, Franklin.

Fun FACT: Jackie Coogan continued to act throughout his life, later earning renewed fame in middle age portraying Uncle Fester in the 1960s television series The Addams Family!