Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/PopMatters Picks/Reviews Silent Film Speaks Up: This Newly Restored Chaplin Comedies Elicit New Laughs By Desirae Embree / 12 January 2016 Flicker Alley’s recent release of 15 newly restored comedies from Chaplin’s time at Essanay Studios is another priceless intervention in the decay of Hollywood history.