Zepped (1916)

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

How it feels

This short silent film uses stop-motion animation and recycled footage of Charlie Chaplin to mock a German zeppelin attack on London during World War One. It is a propaganda comedy that mixes real war fears with slapstick humor.

playfulwhimsicallightheartedhistoricalunexpectednostalgicquirkyfast-paced

What happens

Zepped is a 1916 propaganda comedy short film about a German Zeppelin attack on London during the First World War. Charlie Chaplin appears in the film, although it is unlikely he himself was involved in the production. Making use of stop-motion animation, Zepped may have used previously-unknown outtakes of three or four earlier Chaplin films: His New Profession (1914), A Jitney Elopement (1915) and The Tramp (1915), and according to Bonhams, By the Sea (1915). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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