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the gift of finding a true poetry in the world of the camera. This poetry of reality was his contribution, and it is the chief justification for films to-day. With the French film industry in its present state his loss is a serious blow. In the French studios such men as he are rare.
From a child in prison with his father, Jean Vigo developed into a man greatly in revolt against the injustices of his generation. Harassed ceaselessly by the Censors and the trade, he personifies the progressive film director in his fight against the stupidity and hypocrisy of the ordinary cinema-world.
CHAPLIN'S NEW FILM
MACK SCHWAB
While Hollywood contemplates deserting black-and-white films for Technicolour, and continues to stuff its productions with dialogue, Charlie Chaplin slowly creates his second non-talkie picture since the advent of sound.
Untitled as yet, his movie is being shot silent. Music and perhaps rhythmical dialogue similar to the opening shot in City Lights will be dubbed in afterwards. The story has an industrial background, and concerns a tramp, who gets a job in a factory, becomes enmeshed in the machinery, falls in love with a girl, only to have her leave him in the end. Familiar Chaplin stuff. It should be ready for release in the spring.
I was on the set during a prison sequence. Chaplin gets there through a gag appropriate to the present day. He saw a red flag drop off the back end of a lumber truck. He picked it up, and waving it, called the driver to stop. A police riot squad with tear gas and clubs mistook him for a Communist inciting revolution, and clapped him in jail. Chaplin likes the easy life of jail so much that he refuses to aid a prison break — in fact he succeeds in spoiling the prisoner's escape.
It is very exciting watching Chaplin rehearse. The scene is slapstick, with guards and some prisoners (one of whom is a hard-boiled
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