The same article claims that "a second series [was] commissioned even before the first episode has been publicly screened".
Chaplin did not approve the completed film for release, and it was never publicly screened.
This film was publicly screened in New York City.
The film was never publicly screened and no print of the film has survived.
The movie finished production in 1982, but was not publicly screened in Iran until 1998.
The film was first publicly screened on October 7, 1930 at the Supercinema in Rome.
Most pilots are never publicly screened if they fail to sell a series.
It was released some time in 1931, and is not likely to have been screened publicly in the United States.
Apparently, dialogue scenes were also recorded, but the results were unsatisfactory and the film was never publicly screened incorporating them.
It was publicly screened in New York in 2005 for the first time in over thirty years.