I never knew that Chaplin made at his own expense a propaganda film for helping the Liberty Loan Committee for selling bonds in the World War I, against the German Empire. After three sketches about the bonds of friendship, love and marriage (among which I only liked the second one, particularly the gags with the moon and the cupid), the tramp meets both Uncle Sam and German Emperor Wilhelm II in a fourth and last segment. The two-reel film is aesthetically different (quite simple black set) from other short films by Chaplin, and also much less funny than almost all of them. It works, however, as a historical curiousity.
