Chocolate Dynamite is a lost 1914 American silent comedy film produced by the Biograph Company and according to some modern references, directed by either Lionel Barrymore or Edward Dillon.

A two-sentence synopsis of the plot can be found in the February 28, 1914 issue of the New York trade journal The Moving Picture World, which simply states, "The night May's mother is indisposed tramps break into the store.

[5] Fortunately, despite the lack of insightful summaries of the comedy's plot in contemporary trade papers and journals, a brief but very helpful description of the story and a five-page, scene-by-scene typed outline of the film's shooting sequences survive in the Library of Congress.

All of this paperwork was part of the documentation that Biograph submitted to the federal government in February 1914 to obtain copyright protection for the production prior to its release to theaters.

:[6] According to studio records also cited in the reference D. W. Griffith and the Biograph Company, the comedy was shot in New York City and filming was "finished" on August 28, 1913, a full six months before the short's release.

[1] By the late summer of 1913, at the very time this comedy was in production, the company remained in the final stages of transitioning to its new facilities and completing the constructing of support buildings and installing updated equipment.

The crediting of Edward Dillon is also unverified by contemporary studio records, but his name is given as the director in Early Cinema History Online, a database created and still maintained, as of 2023, by Derek Long, an assistant professor of Media and Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign[10] Dillon already had five years of experience at Biograph as a screen actor by the time Chocolate Dynamite was filmed, specializing in comedic performances in numerous company releases.

[1] Combes is also recognized in earlier Biograph records for writing the "scenario" for one other company film, the eight-minute comedy Their One Good Suit, which was released in March 1913, five months before the production of Chocolate Dynamite and almost a year before the initial distribution of this short.

[13] The documents submitted by the Biograph Company in 1914 to obtain copyright protection for this film include the basic outline used by the production's director and cinematographer for planning, shooting, and editing the picture.

Portions of the sequential entries selected from pages one and two of this outline provide some insight into the short's general structure: On February 28, 1914, Biograph officially released Chocolate Dynamite and its split-reel companion, the 580-foot comedy Because of a Hat starring Charles Murray.

The Magnet Film Company notified readers of The Bioscope that the shorts would soon be available either for purchase or as rentals to local cinemas and to other motion picture houses throughout England and as far north as Glasgow, Scotland.

[3][14] That notice also includes a single sentence summarizing the comedy's plot: "Tramps break into a village store, but a ready-witted girl removes them by an ingenious trick".

[3] One difference between the marketing of Chocolate Dynamite and Because of a Hat in Great Britain compared to the films' distribution in the United States is that in England the comedies were offered individually for sale or as rentals to cinemas, not together on a split reel.