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Charlie chaplin almost immediately becomes the biggest international star that the film world had known, and therefore basically anyone had known up to that point, because it was like seeing the real man in front of you, and he had a level of fame and immediately to his audience that was completely unprecedented. the film industry is becoming global. so he is notjust popular with american audiences, he is popular with european audiences, ultimately with world audiences. and he is popular in that way because his comedy can be seen by everyone in the world. not until elvis do you get a kind of p...

From very difficult beginnings, we trace his career over the decades, starting in the silent error in the uk, through his frenetic years in america, before he settled into a life in exile in switzerland. hello from the cinema museum in london. i'm tom brook, and welcome to our talking movies charlie chaplin special. his was a tremendous rags to riches story. he was the first truly global media superstar, and had a major and lasting impact on 20th—century cinema. in an age where many hollywood studio films feel stale and lifeless, chaplin's work remains vibrant. we can learn from him. to watc...

In what was one of south london's poorest areas. increased industrialisation and widespread poverty meant it was easy to get left behind. he had a really appalling childhood. his father was an alcoholic and he drifted in and out of their lives, and his mother had mental illness and she would have regular nervous breakdowns. he was brought up by basically a single mother, him and his half—brother sydney. when she couldn't look after him and his brother, they often went into workhouses — like the building we are in right now was a workhouse where charlie chaplin stayed. and these early exper...

And it is hard to argue with the results, really. and how do you view him in terms of what he peddled in his films? do you see him as a political film—maker? charlie chaplin, with his social background and concerns about humanity, he can't help but be political even when he is trying not to be. as the films go on he developed an interest in certain themes that have more political resonance. start thinking about the rights of workers in capitalism, he starts thinking about the speed of the machine age and how that affects people and their international relations. he starts thinking about obvi...

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