The lamppost used in the famous scene between Charles Chaplin and Eric Campbell fell on Chaplin during filming, requiring his hospitalization.
On the wall in the room where the drug addict is shooting up are portraits of the Emperor of Russia, Nicholas II, and his wife Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, and what could be a portrait of their children. All would be executed by the Bolsheviks on 17 July 1918.
Restoration work was carried out at Lobster Films in 2014.
Easy Street (1917) has been restored by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and Lobster Films, from two nitrate prints preserved at UCLA Film Archives and the Museum of Modern Art.
Some fragments were added from two nitrate prints preserved at the Archives françaises du film (CNC) and the British Film Institute, and a di-acetate fine grain from the Cinémathèque française.
Intertitles have been reconstructed according to the original Mutual Film intertitles from the same age, and documents of the Library of Congress.
The surviving elements come from two different negatives. Negative A was restored whenever possible while negative B was used to reconstruct missing or severely damaged shots.
Easy Street (1917) has been restored by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and Lobster Films, from two nitrate prints preserved at UCLA Film Archives and the Museum of Modern Art.
Some fragments were added from two nitrate prints preserved at the Archives françaises du film (CNC) and the British Film Institute, and a di-acetate fine grain from the Cinémathèque française.
Intertitles have been reconstructed according to the original Mutual Film intertitles from the same age, and documents of the Library of Congress.
The surviving elements come from two different negatives. Negative A was restored whenever possible while negative B was used to reconstruct missing or severely damaged shots.