Instrumentation

1(=picc).0.1(=ssax).1 - 1120 - perc(2): timps/tamb/whistle/BD/cyms/xyl/glsp/mar - drum kit - pno - banjo- vln.vlc.db

Availability

Full score and parts for hire

Programme Notes

Starring: Charles Chaplin
Director: Mack Sennett
Production Company: Keystone USA, 1914
Film Print: B&W print available from Roy Export Co. (Film Speed: 18 frames per second)

This very short film consists of candid shots of a children's auto-car race by a Californian beach, in front of which Chaplin improvises a comedy routine. It is now of special interest since it features Chaplin's first appearance in his Tramp persona. Carl Davis's score is a musical rough-house complete with crashes, whistles and bangs.

Kid Auto Races in Venice

programmed with Shoulder Arms and A Dog's Life

Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre (London, United Kingdom)

Philharmonia Orchestra/Carl Davis CBE

Kid Auto Races in Venice

To be programmed with Shoulder Arms and A Dog's Life

Corn Exchange (Bedford, United Kingdom)

Philharmonia Orchestra/Carl Davis CBE

Kid Auto Races in Venice

Nikolaisaal (Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany)

Helmut Imig/Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg

Kid Auto Races in Venice

Symphony Hall (Birmingham, United Kingdom)

Carl Davis CBE/City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Kid Auto Races in Venice

No Venue (Ottawa, ON, Canada)

Boris Brott/National Arts Centre of Ottawa