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Released
1918 · FILM

The Bond

Directed by
Written by
Color
Black & White
Runtime
9 min
Comedy

Synopsis

A propaganda film created by Charlie Chaplin at his own expense for the Liberty Loan Committee to help sell U.S. Liberty Bonds during World War I. The story is a series of sketches humorously illustrating various bonds, such as the bond of friendship and of marriage, and, most importantly, the Liberty Bond, to defeat the Kaiser, which Chaplin does literally.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 10

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Shot by Roland TotherohDesigned by Charles D Hall

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