Winnipeg wrote:The 1922 Kino-Fot series is different than the image I am looking at. There is a separate singular work from when she was a student that is dated 1912. I wonder about the date myself, but it seems plausible, just strangely early. It's such an intriguing mystery.
Are you sure that the 1912 image is intended to represent Charlie Chaplin? Or is it a man with a derby and a cane who (coincidentally, perhaps) resembles the character Chaplin created at Keystone, some two years later? In 1912 Chaplin was a moderately successful stage comedian, known to audiences in the U.K. and in parts of America where the Karno troupe had appeared, but he had not yet made any movies, and was unknown in Russia and the rest of the non-English speaking world.