This film was one of several Chaplin comedies scheduled to be shown at the New-York Historical Society in September of 2001. In the wake of the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center, however, this film and one other, Dough and Dynamite, were pulled from the program, because each one ends with Charlie emerging from the rubble of a destroyed building.
The film was restored in 2014 through the Chaplin Essanay Project thanks to the financial support of Ilan Doshi.
Restoration work was carried out at Lobster Films laboratory in 2014. Scanned at L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory.
Work (1915) has been restored by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and Lobster Films in collaboration with Film Preservation Associates, from a nitrate fine grain preserved at The Museum of Modern Art and a nitrate print preserved at the British Film Institute.
Some fragments were added from a nitrate print in the Blakhawk Collection preserved at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Intertitles have been reconstructed from re-release prints of 1920's.
Work (1915) has been restored by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and Lobster Films in collaboration with Film Preservation Associates, from a nitrate fine grain preserved at The Museum of Modern Art and a nitrate print preserved at the British Film Institute.
Some fragments were added from a nitrate print in the Blakhawk Collection preserved at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Intertitles have been reconstructed from re-release prints of 1920's.