The Dryden will screen A Dog's Life (Charles Chaplin, U.S. 1918, 33 min., 35mm), and The Kid (Charles Chaplin, U.S. 1921, 53 min., 35mm) as part of the Dryden Kids series.

The Kid, Chaplin's first full-length feature, promised "a smile—and, perhaps, a tear." The most Victorian of films, The Kid portrays the full dimensions of childhood's terrors, poverty's strain, and the dreamy hopes that transcend both. Jackie Coogan shot to stardom as the title brat, an orphan adopted by Chaplin and initiated into petty crime and tomfoolery. One of the most moving and funniest films of all times. A Dog's Life is a film with the same idea, but with a dog instead of a kid.

[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-Nov-7]