Instrumentation
1(=picc).1.2.1 - 2110 - perc(1): drum kit (+SD)/BD (+ped)/hi-hat cym/susp.cym/TD/tgl/mcas/siz.cym/tpl.bl/tamb/swanee whistle - pno - strings (11111)
Availability
Score, parts & film print (35mm, DVD PAL, DVD NTSC, Digibeta PAL & Digibeta NTSC) for hire
Programme Notes
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance
Director: Charles Chaplin
Production Company: Mutual USA, 1917
Duration: 22 minutes
Film Print: B&W print available from Faber Music
(Film Speed: c.20 frames per second)
Premiere with Davis's score: 2003, Kuala Lumpur
16 or 17 Players: l(=picc).1.2.l - 2.1.1.0 - perc(l or 2) inc. drum kit - pno -
single strings (1.1.1.1.1)
Charlie, a clumsy waiter, poses as Sir Cecil Seltzer when he goes roller-skating in his lunch break and saves Edna from the advances of heavyweight Mr Stout. Based on 'Skating', one of the Fred Karno stage sketches in which Charlie appeared.