Charlie is a tramp on the road. A hobo manages to exchange Charlie's sandwich for a brick so Charlie must eat grass. The same hobo molests a farmer's daughter; Charlie comes to aid with the help of the brick. When two more hobos show up Charlie throws all three into a lake. The grateful girl takes Charlie home where he fails as a farmhand. He again helps drive off the hobos (who are now trying to break into the house). The girl's fiance arrives. Though a hero, Charlie, knowing he must go, writes a farewell note and leaves for the open road... (from IMDb)

Director: Charles Chaplin
Production Company: The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company
Audio/Visual: silent, B/W
Date Release: 1915
Cast: Charles Chaplin/Tramp - Edna Purviance/Farmer's Daughter - Ernest Van Pelt/Farmer

Charlie and his boss have difficulties just getting to the house they are going to wallpaper. The householder is angry because he can't get breakfast and his wife is screaming at the maid as they arrive. The kitchen gas stove explodes, and Charlie offers to fix it. The wife's secret lover arrives and is passed off as the workers' supervisor, but the husband doesn't buy this and fires shots. The stove explodes violently, destroying the house... (from IMDb)

Director: Charles Chaplin
Production Company: The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company
Audio/Visual: silent, B/W
Date Release: 1915
Cast: Charles Chaplin/Izzy A. Wake's assistant - Charles Inslee/Izzy A. Wake, Paperhanger - Edna Purviance/Maid

It is windy at a bathing resort. After fighting with one of the two husbands, Charlie approaches Edna while the two husbands themselves fight over ice cream. Driven away by her husband, Charlie turns to the other's wife... (from IMDb)

Director: Charles Chaplin
Production Company: The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company
Audio/Visual: silent, B/W
Date Release: 1915
Cast: Charles Chaplin/Stroller - Billy Armstrong/Man in Straw Hat - Margie Reiger/Man in Straw Hat's Wife

While blindfolded and playing pin the tail on the donkey with some lady friends, our hero is mistaken for an escaped initiate of a kooky fraternal order. He is abducted and initiated into the order, the process involving various hilarious indignities... (from IMDb)

Director: Hal Roach
Production Company: Rolin Films
Date Release: 1920
Audio & Video: Silent - Black & White
Cast: Harold Lloyd/The Boy - Mildred Davis/The Girl - 'Snub' Pollard/The Rival

While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man sees the girl with her new boyfriend. When her dog gets loose in the park, both suitors have to help her catch it. Then, the girl's uncle, a balloonist, gives her a pass for two in his balloon, provided that her mother approves. She then offers to take along the first of her admirers who is able to get her mother's consent... (from IMDb)

Director: Hal Roach
Production Company: Rolin Films
Date Release: 1920
Audio & Video: Silent - Black & White
Cast: Harold Lloyd/The Boy - Mildred Davis/The Girl - Roy Brooks/The Rival