/' \9ti\ * ' * / ; MUSEUM OF MODERN ART MEW YORK 19 ?? WEST 53rd STREET TElEPHONEt CIRCLE 5-8900 CABLES, MODERNART, NEW.YORK For release* Tuesday, Seetesfeer £^, 19^7 So. 96 IARLY C1TAPIX? FILMS AS «Ua3UM 0? MCBSHI? AHS ffet MUSSMSJI of Modern Art, 11 Nta* 53 Street, will, present three vaakg of the. early fi&BS of Charles Chaylia, October 5 - £3* Tvrenty-five film vill too sbcnm in 6 seai-veefcly program* Beginning with selected Keystone ecrasdles of 191k, mads before 12M tossy charaetarisation ves entirely evelred, the ffiogrsas proceed through the transitional Ksaany Fi3ns of 1913 to the couplets eerier of Mutual WlsWj 1916 - lrf# in vhich Chaplin achieved full mastery of hi 3 Bedim* Included vill be Chaplin's first filsa, Uaklaa a llvinflj in vhich fas sppeari in a frock coat, high silk hat, walrus Buutaah* and monocle; his first classic, ffha Treapj and the celebrated r^yGtreet, Asjsasj featured players are Fatty Arbtte&a» Kibel Wmnismlj Ben. furs-ist* Idas Purviaaoei siin Bunaarville end the Koystoae Cops. Music for the series will bo arranged and played by Arthur Kleiner. £here vill be t^o showings dailyj at 3 end 3*30. Malsftlon to the Haseua, 75 cents for adults icd 2!) eeats for cMiSroa incier 16, ineluae.3 the fil-is. A ccaplete schedule is attached* For additional infornation please contact Herbert Broasteinj Assistant Publicity ilreotor, Museum of raflem Art, 11 Vest 53 Street, K. Y. CI-3-8200. THE EARLY FILMS OF CHARLES CHAPLIN presented at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 W, 53 Street, New York, N. Y. October 3-23, 1957 Daily at 3 and 5:30 P.M. October 3-5: KEYSTONE FILMS, 191k MAKING A LIVING, 1KB ItASQUERADER, GETTING ACQUAINTED, THE KNOCK-OUT and THE ROUNDERS, with Chaplin, Henry Lehman, Iiinta Durfee, Chester Conklin, Fatty Arbuckle, Al St, John, Mack Swain, Hank Mann, Slim Summerville, Mack Sennett, Mabel Normand and the Keystone Cops, October 6-9: 3SSANAY FIDS, 1915 HIS NEW JOB, THE TRAMP, WORK and A WOMAN, written and directed by Chaplin, with Chaplin, Ben Turpin, Leo White, Edna Purviance, Bud Jamison, October 10-12: ESS AMY FILMS, 1915 THE BANK, A NIGTJT AT THE SI-TOW, an excerpt from CARMEN, and POLICE, written and directed by Charles Chaplin, with Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Leo White, Bud Jamison, Ben Turpin and Wesley Ruggles. October 13-16: MUTUAL FILMS, 1916 THE FLOORWALKER, THE FIREMAN, THE VAGABOND and ONE A.M., written and directed by Charles Chaplin, with Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell and Leo White. October 17-19: MUTUAL FIDS, 1916 THE COUNT, THE PAWNSHOP, BEHIND THE SCREEN and THE RINK, written and directed by Charles Chaplin, with Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Henry Bergman and Leo White. October 20-23: MUTUAL FII25, 1917 EASY STREET, T*TE CURE, THE IMMIGRANT and THE ADVENTURER, written and directed by Charles Chaplin, with Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell and Henry Bergman. Music for the silent films arranged and played by Arthur Kleiner. A large selection of German films from every period of its film history is being prepared in conjunction with the exhibition of German Art, with the cooperation of the German Federal Republic and Lufthansa German Airlines. The film exhibition will begin October 2i|th and last into the new year. A printed program containing the full schedule is now in preparation. .