Deleted scene from Modern Times Charlie tries to cross the street in this deleted scene from Modern Times.
Chaplin at Keystone: The Tramp is Born Building on traditions forged in the commedia dell’arte which he learned in the British music halls, Charles Chaplin brought traditional theatrical forms into an emerging medium and changed both cinema and culture in the process...
Filming Modern Times Chaplin was acutely preoccupied with the social and economic problems of this new age. In 1931 and 1932 he had left Hollywood behind, to embark on an 18-month world tour. In Europe, he had been disturbed to see the rise of nationalism...
Extracts from the typescript of "Hollywood Chaplin" by Henry Gris, United Press staff correspondent on the set of Limelight, 1952