Charlie Chaplin (1951)

Record Details:

Title:
Charlie Chaplin
Date:
1951
Publisher:
New York : Henry Schuman, Inc.
Volume:
Charlie Chaplin
Leaf #:
000336
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
{"Media History Digital Library","Richard Koszarski","Jeff Joseph"}
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
June 20, 2024
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XXVII "Modern Times" Started in October 1934, the shooting on "Modern Times" took ten months, a trifle less than Chaplin usually spent on a feature. Perhaps the prepared script accounted for the comparative speed. A million and a half dollars went into it. Altogether 215,000 feet of film were exposed, and two of the largest sets Chaplin ever used in a picture were constructed for it. One was the interior of the factory built on his own lot. Its wood and rubber machinery, painted to look like steel, cost fifty thousand dollars to build. It actually worked; but not even the actor-producer knew what it manufactured, sausages or cars. Another set, constructed to simulate the factory area of a large industrial city, covered five acres of ground which Chaplin leased near the Los Angeles harbor. The film was shot at sound speed with motor-driven cameras. "Modern Times" was the second name chosen for it, the first, "The Masses," having been discarded. It was the first Chaplin film in five years. Once again he took the risk of producing a silent film, years after its supposed final demise. The only concessions were a musical accompaniment and sound effects and a few spoken sentences, allowed because they issued as television or loudspeaker voices. Except for the song at the end of the picture, Chaplin's voice was not heard. A disappointing preview in the West, before its New