A Day's Pleasure

As Charlie struggles with the cantankerous car, a pedestrian walks into view on a sidewalk in the background.

Either realizing a film is being shot or waved off by the crew, he hastily turns around and walks away.

At one point while Charlie Chaplin is stuck in the tar, he has lost his hat.

He's still without a hat when the second policeman gets stuck in the tar, but after Chaplin steps out of his shoe and climbs over the two policemen, his hat has returned to the top of his head.

Father (Charlie Chaplin) takes his family for a drive in their falling-apart Model T Ford, gets in trouble in traffic, and spends the day on an excursion boat.A Day's Pleasure is almost universally regarded as Chaplin's least impressive First National film.

Does a sight gag and says "That's funny - I'll do it again". Then says "It's still funny - I'll do it again.

Lazy weekend outings with a diminutive middle-class man and his family, who endure car troubles, a bumpy afternoon cruise and a late afternoon stand-off with the traffic officer. It's all extremely basic, half-effort stuff from a visibly uninspired Charlie Chaplin.

Chaplin edited, wrote, produced, and directed this film about a family out to enjoy an afternoon boat ride. The film is broken down into three parts.

It's short and sweet, but Chaplin is in full swing here with his physical comedy and in projecting a screen presence that commands attention. The scenes on the boat on this "day out" are pretty funny, starting from when he boards in a hurry over a face down woman who has her arms stretched out to reach the boat and her toes gripping the dock.

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Charlott vive económicamente bien; junto con su esposa y sus hijos tomarán un día en familia, aunque existan algunos sucesos que estén en contra de ello. El cortometraje cumple como una serie de muy buenos gags que mantendrán muy divertido al espectador, pero no se logra concretar una historia por completo.

One of Charlie Chaplin's early shorts casts him as the father of a family out for a trip and experiencing a series of mishaps. "A Day's Pleasure" is low-key compared to his most famous works, but manages to incorporate some funny stuff, namely the chair and the tar.

Charlie Chaplin's pictures at First National studios vary immensely in quality. He was at the peak of his comic professionalism, and by and large his output at the time reflects that.