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- BFI identifier181370
- Date1919 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
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- SynopsisThe Charlie Chaplin character is shown finding a geni who grants him his every wish. Main title and credits (13). The geni is introduced and then Charlie Chaplin. "The complete angler". Charlie sits by the sea fishing. "A line from Charlie 20,000 leagues under the sea". Under the sea the fish swim and a monster sits on a rock. A fish plays with an air bubble and disappears as more bubbles appear. A large monster's head emerges from a rock and gobbles up a fish but soon after regurgitates it. Fish are seen swimming above the sea floor as Charlie's hook and line come down to them. The fish ignore the line and Charlie hooks a vase which he raises to the surface. "The geni of the jar". Once on the surface a geni appears in a cloud of smoke from the vase and grants Charlie his every wish. "Then hustle Baby and let me see myself as others see me". A cinema appears and grows larger. Charlie walks towards the cinema and is greeted by the commissionaire. Charlie takes his seat in the cinema and watches himself on the screen as the audience laughs. "From the face of Earth he banished dull care". A sad looking Earth spins in the universe. Charlie appears on a cloud and smiles at the Earth, the Earth begins to laugh. A hand appears and picks up Charlie and places him in the mouth of the Earth. Charlie escapes from the mouth and lands on the cloud. "He signed for new worlds to conquer". The geni appears as a bird and whisks Charlie off through the heavens dropping him then catching him again. As he flies through the planets they all turn into faces of Charlie Chaplin and then return to being planets. "The further adventures of a geni and a genius will be shown at a later date" (660ft). (Shotlist) animated film (Synopsis)
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A Geni and a Genius (Series 1) (Original)
A Genii and a Genius (Series 1) (Alternative)
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10.5240/3740-CC49-3D12-4F56-DDF3-KCategory
FictionThis work is available to view in the Mediatheque at BFI Southbank.
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Work - 181370 - 1919 (Release)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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