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Product Description ------------------- For the first time as a filmmaker, Chin stepped into feature-length storytelling with this tale of the down- but-never-out Tramp (Chin) and the adorable ragamuffin (6-year-old Jackie Coogan) who, rescued as a foundling and raised in the School of Hard Knocks by the Tramp, is his inseparable sidekick. Memorable scenes include a lesson in table manners, the bully brawl and the Tramp's angelic dream. The Kid earns its wings. .com ---- The Kid is one of the purest expressions of Charlie Chin's art on film. It unites Chin with a boy he had spotted in a vaudeville act, 6-year-old Jackie Coogan--whose life would lead to the child-protective Coogan Act and a role as Uncle Fester on TV. The story has the Tramp adopting an abandoned waif and teaching him streetwise survival skills. The gags are flawless, but for Chin the huge advance (other than a running time longer than his two-reelers) was the exploration of a rich vein of sentiment; the emotionally wrenching separation of the Tramp and the Kid is probably the most Dickensian sequence ever captured on film. Chin drew on his own rough childhood for the material (and may have been inspired by the death of an infant son immediately before beginning the project). Jackie Coogan's gift for mimicry allowed him to replicate Chin's exacting direction, making him the perfect Chin co-star. --Robert Horton P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); Set Contains: ------------- Three sentimental scenes deleted by Chin for a 1971 reissue include more of E Purviance's role. A half-hour "Chin Today" documentary, with Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami, is disappointingly sketchy, compared to the others in this series. There's also Chin's whimsical How to Make Movies, a behind-the-scenes look at his studio. Home movies and newsreels involving Jackie Coogan, including another 1921 Coogan feature called My Boy, fill out the disc. --Robert Horton See more ( javascript:void(0) )