All at Sea. Alistair Cooke, 1933.
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Edition screened: Included on Criterion Blu-ray #543 Modern Times, released 2010. Scored and with some title cards, no dialogue track. Runtime approximately 18 minutes.
Summary: A shark is killed for no reason.
Details: A shark is caught on a huge hook through her belly, and is held in place upside-down alongside the boat as she bleeds and dies, 13:50-15:12.
All at Sea is a home movie of Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, and Alistair Cooke having a day on Chaplin’s yacht. It’s somewhat interesting to see these beautiful stars relaxing and calmly clowning around a bit, until this horrible shark incident. Sadly, this glimpse of reality lowers my heroic opinion of Charlie Chaplin and my world is a little darker.