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A Burlesque on Carmen (1915)

Rate: 1
Viewed: 9/07

9/07: A Burlesque on Carmen is a forty-three minute Chaplin film short that succeeds mightily in boring me to death.

Wait a minute. Say it again. How long? Forty-three fucking minutes long. The next one, which is Police, was the final picture for Essanay Company before Charlie Chaplin signed a contract with Mutual Film Corporation. So, what happened to the Essanay Company? It went out of business in 1916.

All in all, I now understand what Colonel Kurtz meant in Apocalypse Now: "The horror...the horror..."

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