Twenty Minutes of Love

A park, a bench, a pickpocket, a stolen watch that keeps changing hands, and a cop: nothing but a location and a nuisance. Chaplin passes the watch back and forth like a man who has just discovered the prop. It is the first Keystone he is credited with shaping himself, April 1914, and the park short was the studio's cheapest form, which he learned to run in an afternoon. One reel.