One of Charlie Chaplin's earliest works returned to the big screen Saturday evening after being forgotten for decades.
This undated black-and-white video image provided by Paul Gierucki shows a scene from the 1914 Charlie Chaplin film "A Thief Catcher," once thought lost but shown publicly July 17, 2010 at an Arlington, Virginia, silent comedy film festival.
The short, silent film, "A Thief Catcher," from 1914, holds only a brief cameo by the legendary actor shot before he became a household name in later silent films. But he is there nonetheless, playing the role of a Keystone cop with all his familiar twitches and his trademark mustache.
Film historian Paul Gierucki found the film by a fluke: The movie buff happened to be browsing an antiques shop in Taylor, Michigan, when he found the 16 mm reel hidden inside a chest. Originally thinking it was just another old Keystone comedy, Gierucki let the flick sit on a shelf for months until late one night he decided to give it a look.
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