{"id":12150,"date":"2018-07-23T06:50:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T10:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=12150"},"modified":"2018-07-19T23:16:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T03:16:54","slug":"charlie-and-the-essanay-movie-studio-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/charlie-and-the-essanay-movie-studio-in-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie and the Essanay movie studio in Chicago."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12151\" style=\"width: 146px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/848e7d_8d847615990d4efca6717e6a97699b1emv2_d_3456_4406_s_4_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12151\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12151\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/848e7d_8d847615990d4efca6717e6a97699b1emv2_d_3456_4406_s_4_2-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlie Chaplin post card Nr 1 &#8211; Essanay studio, Chicago, Illinois<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. The year was 1915. A young actor called Charlie Chaplin spend a few months in the windy city. While there, he recorded a silent movie at the famous Chicago studio named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madeinchicagomuseum.com\/single-post\/2016\/09\/01\/Charlie-Chaplin-Postcard-No-1-by-Essanay-Film-MFG-Co-1915\">Essanay<\/a> for its two founders. Thanks to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madeinchicagomuseum.com\">Made in Chicago Museum<\/a>, we learn of a part of Chaplin&#8217;s story often overlooked by his biographers.<\/p>\n<p>You might ask, &#8220;How did I learn about this interesting bit of photographic trivia&#8221;? In a word: <em>Dunbar<\/em>. Yep, my good friend George Dunbar discovered this interesting story on the internet and sent me an email!<\/p>\n<p>Food for thought: Chicago is about the same population as Toronto. We have museums like the famous ROM. Do we have enough things that were made here for a <em>Made inToronto Museum<\/em>?? Just asking &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. The year was 1915. A young actor called Charlie Chaplin spend a few months in the windy city. While there, he recorded a silent movie at the famous Chicago studio named Essanay for its two founders. Thanks to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/charlie-and-the-essanay-movie-studio-in-chicago\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[1184,2074,1971,2075,58,129],"class_list":["post-12150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-cabinet-card","tag-charlie-chaplin-silent-movies","tag-chicago","tag-essanay","tag-history","tag-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12154,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12150\/revisions\/12154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}