Celebrating the Tramp 100th anniversary in 2014, the Keystone Album is published for the first time in its entirety. A rare example in images of the beginning of Charlie Chaplin’s career as an actor, we only know a handful of still photos from his first short films. This album brings together photograms of 29 of the 36 first short films in which Charlie Chaplin played in 1914. As the pages turn, we witness the birth of the Tramp , who gradually takes over in front and behind the camera for both the script and the direction. The photograms printed from frames of the film render the immediacy of the scene.
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