Charlie Chaplin Film Clips
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| Charlie Chaplin in The Tramp |
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Charlie Chaplin Snubs Hollywood and Departs (Collier's, 1948)
| Henri Landru, Monsieur Verdux and Charlie Chaplin (Script, 1947)
An article about the Charlie Chaplin film, "Monsieur Verdux" (1947) and the monstrous beast Henri Landru -the French murderer on whom the story is loosely based. This article was written by Gordon Kahn, remembered chiefly in our own time as one of the blacklisted Hollywood screenwriters of the post-World War II period. Not too long after this article was written he went into self-exile in Mexico.
| Charlie Chaplin Propaganda Radio Address (Script, 1942)
The attached PDF is the text of an address Chaplin delivered over the war-torn airwaves of 1942 to the citizenry of London and Washington, D.C. encouraging them in the fight against the Axis powers; it is titled, "Give Us More Bombs Over Berlin".
| Charlie Chaplin's Credo (Direction, 1941)
"This, the much-discussed final speech in "The Great Dictator", is more than a climax and conclusion to Chaplin's newest film, it is a statement of Chaplin's belief in humanity, a belief in which his creative powers and artistic development are deeply rooted."Hope...I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone, if possible -Jew, Gentile -black man -white." Let us fight for a new world -a decent world that will give men a chance to work -that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lied!..."
| Charlie Chaplin's Brother (Motion Pictur Magazine, 1916)
It must have been a slow news week when the industrious reporters at Motion Picture Magazine opted to write this piece about Sydney Chaplin (1885 – 1965), businessman and prominent stay-at-home-actor (a cruel gag, he is listed as having made thirty-four films between 1914 and 1928) and occasional business partner to his younger super-star brother, Charlie:
"Charlie Chaplin is small and thin. Sidney is tall and husky. Charlie is dark, with curly hair like a boy. His big brother is light, and looks like a big lumberman. Here is contrast indeed. Their natures are as different as the natures of a flee and a bee. To see them together one would not take them brothers..."Three years after this article was published, Syd Chaplin would started the first domestic airline company in the United States: The Syd Chaplin Airline, Co., which he saw fit to close when the U.S. government began to regulate pilots and all commercial flight ventures.
| Modern Times (The Stage Magazine, 1936)
The Stage Magazine review of Charlie Chaplin's 1936 classic "Modern Times":"The world, with the exception of those bright eyed youngsters under the age of five, has waited pretty breathlessly for the reappearance of a forlorn little figure in a derby, baggy trousers, and disreputable shoes. The fact that his reappearance was to be under the sinister title, "Modern Times" alarmed not a few of us.This hapless creature, whose name by the way, is Charlie Chaplin, had come to mean an unchangeable element to us...Disguised in current mechanistic ingenuity, veiled in lukewarm disapproval of the plight of the working man, and tinted a slight shade of Red, it remain, delightfully and irrevocably, Chaplin.
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