Reasons why Charlie Chaplin is a comic-timing genius: this scene.
There is one camera shot. This was the first and only take.
“Fifteen cents, please.”
D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Charlie, & Douglas Fairbanks sign the papers establishing United Artists, Feb. 5, 1919.
(via phobs-heh)
So the delightful Miss NK was streaming some Batman for us good folk of tumblr last night and then this happened.



I think my brain and my heart simultaneously exploded from sheer joy. I mean they even got Fatty Arbuckle asddfdsnjk and just LOOK at how perfect that BK caricature is I, I just can’t.