The Mirth of a Nation
(1916) United States of America
B&W : Six reels
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: Charles Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Roscoe Arbuckle, Chester Conklin, Mack Swain, Charles Murray, Cecile Arnold, [?] Eva Nelson?
Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Counterfeit Chaplin feature film edited from the Keystone Chaplin shorts, Caught in a Cabaret (1914), Gentlemen of Nerve (1914), His Musical Career (1914), His New Profession (1914), His Trysting Place (1914), Kid’s Auto Races (1914), The Knockout (1914), Laughing Gas (1914), The Masquerader (1914), The Property Man (1914), Recreation (1914), The Rounders (1914), Those Love Pangs (1914), and possibly other films. [?] It has been proposed by Michael J. Hayde that this film is an expanded version of the counterfeit Chaplin feature film Ambition (1915).
Comedy.
Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive [incomplete (reels 1, 2, 5 and 6)].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 1 December 2018.
References: Website-Vintage.
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