Chaplin Today: City Lights

• Movie

  Type

• 2003

  Year

• 26m

  Runtime

• ★ 6.7

  Rating

• Documentary

  Genre

In 1928, as the talkies threw the film industry and film language into turmoil, Chaplin decided that his Tramp character would not be heard. City Lights would not be a talking picture, but it would have a soundtrack. Chaplin personally composed a musical score and sound effects for the picture. With Peter Lord, the famous co-creator of Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit, we see how Chaplin became the king of slapstick comedy and the superstar of the movies.

Cast

Charlie Chaplin

Self (archive footage)

Peter Lord

Self