Charlie Chaplin: Kid Auto Races at Venice (Laurel & Hardy) Color
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----- Made by Keystone Studios and directed by Henry Lehrman, the movie portrays Chaplin as a spectator at a "baby-cart race" in Venice, Los Angeles. The spectator keeps getting in the way of the camera and interferes with the race, causing great frustration to the public and participants. The film was shot during the Junior Vanderbilt Cup, an actual race with Chaplin and Lehrman improvising gags in front of real-life spectators.[2]

Unusually the camera breaks the fourth wall to show a second camera filming (as though it were the first), to better explain the joke. At this stage Chaplin gets in the way only of the visible camera on screen, not the actual filming camera. In so doing it takes on a spectator's viewpoint and becomes one of the first public films to show a film camera and cameraperson in operation.

Charlie Chaplin – The Tramp
Henry Lehrman – Film Director
Frank D. Williams – Cameraman
Gordon Griffith – Boy
Billy Jacobs – Boy
Charlotte Fitzpatrick – Girl
Thelma Salter – Girl[5][a]