The film was restored in 2014 through the Chaplin Essanay Project thanks to the financial support of The David Shepard.
Restoration work was carried out at Lobster Films laboratory in 2014. Scanned at L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory.
The Tramp (1915) has been restored by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologne and Lobster Films in collaboration with Film Preservation Associates, from a nitrate dupe negative preserved at the Danish Film Institute.
Some fragments were added from a safety fine grain in the Blackhawk Collection preserved at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Intertitles have been reconstructed from an incomplete original nitrate print and a Kodascope Libraries print of 1920s.
The Tramp (1915) has been restored by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologne and Lobster Films in collaboration with Film Preservation Associates, from a nitrate dupe negative preserved at the Danish Film Institute.
Some fragments were added from a safety fine grain in the Blackhawk Collection preserved at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Intertitles have been reconstructed from an incomplete original nitrate print and a Kodascope Libraries print of 1920s.
The costume of "the Tramp" only appeared in one earlier film before the Tramp turned it into Chaplin's persona that was universally identified with him. The Tramp was filmed in Niles California (which no longer exists but is incorporated into Fremont and Union City). The final scene walking down a country road (in Fremont now) is still largely the same today except it is now paved with asphalt.