Back سخرية على كارمن (فيلم 1915) Arabic سخريه على كارمن ARZ A Burlesque on Carmen Catalan Charlie Chaplin som Don José Danish Charlie Chaplins Carmen-Parodie German Burlesque on Carmen Esperanto Burlesque on Carmen Spanish دستانداختن کارمن Persian Charlot joue Carmen French Charlot joue Carmen HT
| A Burlesque on Carmen | |
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 Film poster | |
| Directed by | Charlie Chaplin |
| Written by | Prosper Mérimée Charlie Chaplin |
| Produced by | Jess Robbins George K. Spoor |
| Starring | Charlie Chaplin Jack Henderson Edna Purviance Leo White |
| Cinematography | Roland Totheroh |
| Edited by | Charlie Chaplin |
| Music by | Hugo Riesenfeld |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | General Film Company |
Release date |
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Running time | 31 minutes (1915) 44 minutes (1928 sound reissue) |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent (English intertitles) |
A Burlesque on Carmen is Charlie Chaplin's thirteenth film for Essanay Studios, originally released as Carmen on December 18, 1915. Chaplin played the leading man and Edna Purviance played Carmen. The film is a parody of Cecil B. DeMille's Carmen 1915, which was itself an interpretation of the popular novella Carmen by Prosper Mérimée.[1]
Chaplin's original version was a tightly paced two-reeler, but in 1916 after he had moved to Mutual, Essanay reworked the film into a four-reel version called A Burlesque on Carmen, or Charlie Chaplin's Burlesque on Carmen, adding discarded footage and new scenes involving a subplot about a gypsy character played by Ben Turpin.[1] This longer version was deeply flawed in pacing and continuity, and not representative of Chaplin's initial conception. Chaplin sued Essanay but failed to stop the distribution of the longer version; Essanay's tampering with this and other of his films contributed significantly to Chaplin's bitterness about his time there. The presence of Essanay's badly redone version is likely the reason that A Burlesque on Carmen is among the least known of Chaplin's early works. Historian Ted Okuda calls the two-reel original version the best film of Chaplin's Essanay period, but derides the longer version as the worst.[2]
Further reissues followed, for instance a synchronized sound version in 1928 by Quality Amusement Corporation. It was re-edited from the 1916 Essanay reissue, with a newly shot introduction written by newspaper columnist Duke Bakrak. This version, with rewritten title cards, poor sequencing, and "fuzzy" in appearance from generation loss, can be found today on some budget home video releases.[1] Film preservationist David Shepard studied Chaplin's court transcripts and other evidence to more closely reproduce the original Chaplin cut.[2] This version was released on DVD by Image Entertainment in 1999[3] and has since been restored a second time in HD.[4]
- ^ a b c "Charlie Chaplin Collectors' Guide: A Burlesque on Carmen (1915)". Brenton Film. 6 August 2018. Retrieved August 6, 2018.
- ^ a b Okuda, Ted (2005). Charlie Chaplin at Keystone and Essanay: Dawn of the Tramp. iUniverse. pp. 138–42. ISBN 9780595365982.
- ^ "Charlie Chaplin Collectors' Guide: Essanay and Mutual 1980s–2000s restorations". Brenton Film. 21 May 2018. Retrieved July 31, 2018.
- ^ "Charlie Chaplin Collectors' Guide: Essanay and Mutual restored in HD". Brenton Film. 21 May 2018. Retrieved July 31, 2018.