Making a Living (1914)
Stars: Charles
Chaplin, Emma Bell Clifton , Chester Conklin
Director: Henry
Lehrman (uncredited)
Genre: Short |
Comedy
Keystone Film Company
Time: 13 min
Rating: Not Rated
Plot
An out-of-work swindler takes a job as a reporter. After
witnessing a car go over cliff, he grabs a rival reporter's camera and races to
the newspaper office to enter the photo as his own. His rival is delayed when
he gets caught in a woman's bedroom by her jealous husband. The swindler
follows the distribution of the paper containing his 'scoop' around town where
he is once again chased by the rival reporter. Both end up on the cow-catcher
of a streetcar.
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