CINEMA’S FIRST GENIUS

Biography:

–Charles Spencer Chaplin was born in London, England, on April 16th 1889.
–His father was a versatile vocalist and actor
–His mother, known under the stage name of Lily Harley, was an actress and singer.
–Charlie was thrown on his own resources before he reached the age of ten as the early death of his father and the subsequent illness of his mother.
–Having inherited natural talents from their parents, the youngsters took to the stage as the best opportunity for a career.
–Charlie made his professional debut as a member of a juvenile group called "The Eight Lancashire Lads" and rapidly won popular favors as an outstanding tap dancer.

•Charlie Chaplin was the author of at least four books.
•An accomplished musician, though self-taught, he played a variety of instruments with equal skill and facility.
•He was also a composer, having written and published many songs, as well as the soundtracks for all his films.
•Charles Chaplin was one of the rare comedians who not only financed and produced all his films, but was the author, actor, director, soundtrack composer and all of his scripts.
•He died in the day of Christmas in 1977, he lived with 7 children of his last marriage with Oona O'Neill, and a son of his small marriage for Lita Grey.

Quotations by Charlie Chaplin
"The silent picture is a universal means of expression. Talking pictures necessarily have a limited field, they are held down to the particular tongues of particular races..(..) There is a constant demand for a medium that is universal in its utility."

"Pantomime has always been the universal means of communication. (...) It existed as the universal tool long before language was born. Pantomime serves well where languages are in the conflict of a common ignorance.“

"Action is more generally understood than words. The lift of an eyebrow, however faint, may convey more than a hundred words. A truly capable actor must possess a thorough grounding in pantomime." Interview NY Times 25/01/1931

His Filmography:

The knownest movies are:
•1915 • The Tramp
•1916 • The Vagabond
•1918 • A Dog’s Life • The Bond
•1921 • The Kid
•1925 • The Gold Rush
•1928 • The Circus

Sound Pictures
•1931 • City Lights
•1936 • Modern Times
•1940 • The Great Dictator
•1947 • Monsieur Verdoux
•1952 • Limelight

MODERN TIMES
Marked the last screen appearance of the Little Tramp
The character which had brought Charles Chaplin world fame, and who still remains the most universally recognized fictional image of a human being in the history of art.

With Keystone Film Company:
•1914 : Making a Living* • Kid Auto Races at Venice* • Mabel’s Strange Predicament* • Between Showers* • A Film Johnnie* • Tango Tangles* • His Favorite Pastime* • Cruel, Cruel Love* • The Star Boarder* • Mabel at the Wheel* • Twenty Minutes of Love • Caught in a Cabaret* • Caught in the Rain • A Busy Day • The Fatal Mallet* • Her Friend the Bandit* • The Knockout* • Mabel’s Busy Day* • Mabel’s Married Life • Laughing Gas • The Property Man • The Face on the Bar Room Floor • Recreation • The Masquerader • His New Profession • The Rounders • The New Janitor • Those Love Pangs • Dough and Dynamite • Gentlemen of Nerve • His Musical Career • His Trysting Place • Tillie’s Punctured Romance* • Getting Acquainted • His Prehistoric Past

With Essanay Film Manufacturing Co. 1915:
• His New Job • A Night Out • The Champion • In the Park • A Jitney Elopement • The Tramp • By the Sea • Work • A Woman • The Bank • Shanghaied • A Night in the Show
1916 • Charlie Chaplin’s Burlesque on Carmen • Police
With Mutual Film Company
• The Floorwalker • The Fireman • The Vagabond • One A.M • The Count • The Pawnshop • Behind the Screen • The Rink
1917 • Easy Street • The Cure • The Immigrant • The Adventurer

With First National:
1918 • A Dog’s Life • The Bond • Shoulder Arms
1919 • Sunnyside • A Day’s Pleasure
1921 • The Kid • The Idle Class
1922 • Pay Day • The Pilgrim
With United Artists•
1923 • A Woman of Paris
1925 • The Gold Rush
1928 • The Circus
Sound Pictures
1931 • City Lights
1936 • Modern Times
1940 • The Great Dictator
1947 • Monsieur Verdoux
1952 • Limelight
Other Productions
1957 • A King in New York
1959 • The Chaplin Revue
1967 A Countess from Hong Kong

THE GREAT DITACTOR - Discourse:
"I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost....
The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men - cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world - millions of despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. ..... Soldiers! don’t give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel! Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: “the Kingdom of God is within man” - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness.
Soldiers! in the name of democracy, let us all unite!"

Smile Lyrics

Smile though your heart is aching
Smile even though it’s breaking
When there are clouds in the sky, you’ll get by
If you smile through your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You’ll see the sun come shining through for you
Light up your face with gladness
Hide every trace of sadness
Although a tear may be ever so near
That’s the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what’s the use of crying?
You’ll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just smile

That’s the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what’s the use of crying?
You’ll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just smile

Project from

Progress 2

Teacher Nilce

Centro Britânico

Pompéia Branch