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Modern Times is a 1936 American part-talkie comedy film produced, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin.In Chaplin's last performance as the iconic Little Tramp, his character struggles to survive in the modern, industrialized world.
The worried man then phones the fire station but they still ignore him. Finally he goes to the fire station in person. Eventually Charlie understands the predicament, and finds the fire chief at the girl's house and the company rush to extinguish the fire. Charlie mans the hose but his aim is poor and the chief has to take over.
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film.He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is considered one of the film industry's most important figures.
At this stage, Chaplin gets in the way only of the visible camera on screen, not the actual filming camera. In this way, the filming camera takes on a spectator's viewpoint, and Kid Auto Races becomes one of the first public films to show a movie camera and cameraman in operation.
The Fatal Mallet is a 1914 American-made motion picture starring Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand. The film was written and directed by Mack Sennett, who also portrays one of Chaplin's rivals for Normand's attention. (Sennett and Normand were off-screen lovers during this period.)
Wrapped up in this carpet, he takes another shot and then tries climbing via the jacket-hanger. It is very dangerous, and Charlie's life hangs in balance for a second, until Charlie grasps hold of the staircase and manages to get to the door of his room. Alas! The pendulum interferes again. The next thing he knows, Charlie is sliding all the ...
Laughing Gas is a 1914 film starring Charlie Chaplin. [1] The film is also known as Busy Little Dentist , Down and Out , Laffing Gas , The Dentist , and Tuning His Ivories . It is inspired by the 1907 film with the same name .
The Floorwalker. The Floorwalker is a 1916 American silent comedy film, Charlie Chaplin's first Mutual Film Corporation film. The film stars Chaplin, in his traditional Tramp persona, as a customer who creates chaos in a department store and becomes inadvertently entangled in the nefarious scheme of the store manager, played by Eric Campbell, and the store's floorwalker, played by Lloyd Bacon ...