...Charles Chaplin In London on April sixteenth, eighteenth eighty-nine was the birth of Charles Chaplin, who grew up to become a comedy British actor, who completely changed film. Charles was the only moviemaker daring enough to challenge the coming of sound. During his first year with his company he made fourteen films which including The Tramp in 1915. He was an incredible entertainer, arguably the most famous person in the world. Charles used the same filmmaking methods for years and years. Charles, or what I like to call “Little Tramp” that played the funny walking character with a bamboo cane, and a toothbrush mustache during the silent film era. Today, He is still so relevant because of the legendary moments we will live throughout history. It was 1924, when Chaplin filmed scenes from the silent film “The...
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...introduced to Sir Spencer “Charlie” Chaplin. Born in 1889, Chaplin spent his early years preparing himself for the camera in dance troupes and stage comedy routines (Charlie Chaplin, 2005). Having been born into poverty, Chaplin’s rise to fame and riches was tremendously difficult, and in no small part due to Chaplin’s revolutionary approach to cinema and comedy specifically. Chaplin redefined the comedy genre by bringing intelligence and sophistication to what was otherwise a slap-stick dominated field (Charlie Chaplin, 2005). Chaplin achieved this through refining the conventions of filming, extensive character development, portraying gender roles realistically, bringing attention to real world modern issues, and extensive levels of trickery, both in sound and filming. Chaplin’s success is also due, in no small part, to his iconic character: The Tramp. Chaplin was an early adopter and he made his movies in a time when the idea of movies was still relatively new. Though there were other directors, the conventions of movies had yet to be defined and each director would bring what they thought was proper movie techniques to the screen. Chaplin understood the effects of certain camera techniques, and he used this knowledge to his advantage (Mast, G., & Kawin, B., 2011, 107-110). He would use the camera to trick the audience; they would be expecting one thing to happen, but another, more hilarious event would occur. For instance, in The Immigrant Chaplin establishes a shot where there...
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...Movie review “The Great Dictator” “The Great Dictator” is a 1940 war comedy of when Hitler or (Adenoid Hynkel as played by Charles Chaplin) started World War 2 but with a funny,awkward,weird,and a dramatic twist. Which becomes very obvious right when the movie starts. The basic plot point to this movie would be Adenoid Hynkel Trying to build a new world all together while a hometown barber is trying to not be arrested by Hynkel’s militia. (who is also played by Charles Chaplin). This movie was not only acted in but written and directed by Charles Chaplin, but many more big faces in this movie like, Paulette Goddard who played a shy but very sweet women named Hannah, and Jack Oakie who played a bit of a bipolar character named Napaloni. The mechanics of this movie were surprisingly well for how old it is. Lets just say with the technology the director had he used the most out of it to make this movie “great”. The acting in this movie could have been A LOT better but you sort of have to give the actors some leeway because this movie is such a high paced movie, there are no breaks in any scene. The music in this film had to be phenomenal because Charles Chaplin was always a silent actor in all his films until this one.Now then, the editing that happened in this movie, to me was absolutely horrible, after almost every scene it would hop to a completely different scene across the world that made no sense to the plot and was just there for a cheap way to stick a joke in. Speeking...
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...Assignment for Film One (F1) ARTH 334 James Jackson February 7, 2015 “The Kid” debuted in 1921 written and directed by Charles Chaplin is great film about a poor man (played by Charles Chaplin) who runs into a situation that tests his morals and character. He finds an abandoned baby orphan on the street and not having the means to support another person he still decides to care for this child (played by Jackie Coogan) and teaches him what he knows about the world. This film perfectly presents a good balance of comedy and drama in a way that makes you sympathize with the main characters and route for their happiness of staying together. Three specific items to concentrate on are its camerawork, editing, and sound. The camerawork (Cinetography) aided in the story telling of this film by using match on action, specifically different scene angles showing different views within same scene and adding continuation to the story. This type of scene change allowed for movement of the subject as it was occurring to various places and continue temporal continuity. I noticed however the camera was always still with limited left and right panning action only. Adding more movement to the camera through tracking shot could have possibly made the scene more fluid in motion avoiding the viewer from orienting themselves at every scene change. It would have been possible for Chaplin to add this technique as it was already available and featured in an Italian film in 1914. Editing (montage) also...
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...Charlie Chaplin Biography/ Essay Charlie Chaplin was born on April 15, 1889, in London, England to Charles Chaplin, Sr., and Hannah Hill. He was taught to sing before he could talk and danced just as soon as he could walk. At a very young age Chaplin was told that he would be the most famous person in the world. From then on it was a personal goal for Charles. And he would do anything to reach his goal. When Charlie was five years old he sang for his mother on stage after she became ill and taken hoarse. Everyone in the audience loved him and hurled their money onto the stage. When Chaplin was eight, he appeared in a clog-dancing act called "Eight Lancashire Lads". Once again the audience loved him and he was excited with the attention he received. Charlie's half- brother Sidney, acted as his agent and when Charlie was ten years old, Sidney got Chaplin an engagement at the London Hippodrome. Within a few years Charlie was one of the most popular child actors in England. Charlie was twelve when his father died on May 9th, 1901. He died in St. Thomas Hospital in London of alcoholism. He was thirty-seven years old. After the death of her husband, Charlie's mother, became a chronically psychotic woman who was in and out of mental institutions. Charlie and Sidney, were placed in a charity home after their mother's mental health plummeted. Chaplin attended 2 years of school at Hern Boy's College. This was the only formal education that he ever received. Charlie was at school when...
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...Film d’Art – France * French stage plays * To preserve the great triumphs of French stage. * First movies – only scenes * From 1906 such films are made and by 1912, an hour length * 1910: bigger screens for multi-reel movies for a greater audience Italian film business * Emerges in 1912 * More like a grand opera * Multi-reel, gigantic elaborate sets * Stories and legends about ancient Rome * Movies can last for up to 2 hours * The feature films do not qualify for nickelodeons because they are too long and they are worth more than a nickel, which is the maximum price of movies on nickelodeons. * George Kleine adopts the movies and charged an admission price of around $0.50-$1.00, calling them special films. Gaumont-Palace, Paris, France Adolph Zukor * Early 20th century – Nickelodeon * Knows that people would be willing to pay more than a nickel to watch. Brought from outside the states the Passion of Christ from Germany which has multiple reels. With special advertising in Church magazines, charge $0.50-$1.00 for the tickets. * 1912 – American Film Rights for Queen Elizabeth with Sarah Bernhardt (45min-1hr) * Company in 1912: Famous Players to open the movie Queen Elizabeth. * Promised starting 1913 every week will be new movies * Notices that the best selling movies are the stage play movies starring 19-year-old newbie Mary Pickford. He sweeps all the old stars and stars Mary Pickford in...
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...1/22 Film Reviews In today’s class we watched two silent films; Safety Last and Modern Times. At first I was skeptical about watching two silent films and being engaged the entire time. However, both films kept my attention and were highly entertaining. Safety Last was directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor. Hal Roach was its’ producer. The immediate cast consisted of a few performers; Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother, Noah Young, and Westcott Clarke. Throughout this film I maintained both a sense of anxiety as well as humor. There were many parts that I couldn’t help laughing at (when he was attacked by birds and when he was trying to come in late to work). However, there were also many parts that caused me to feel anxious and left my palms sweaty. Throughout the entire film I was anxious about the main character lying about his job to his fiancée and I was also very nervous when he climbed the building and kept getting faced with obstacles along the way. The film left me with a feeling of relief that he had successfully climbed to the top of the building. However, I was also left a little frustrated that his fiancée was still clueless about his job position and money situation. The city had a definite impact on the style of this film. To me, the style seemed to be the style in the city. There was hustle and bustle, people were dressed very well, and the emphasis on ambition all reflects the style of a city. The style was consistent throughout the film. The theme...
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...Attenborough (29 August 1923 – 24 August 2014) who was an English actor, film director, film producer, entrepreneur and politician. He was the President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. As a film director and producer, Attenborough won two Academy Awards for Gandhi in 1983. He also won four BAFTA Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. As an actor, he is perhaps best known for his roles in Brighton Rock, The Great Escape, 10 Rillington Place, Miracle on 34th Street and Jurassic Park. His most recent films as director and producer include Chaplin (1992) starring Robert Downey, Jr., as Charlie Chaplin and Shadowlands (1993), based on the relationship between C. S. Lewis and Joy Gresham (the star of the latter was Anthony Hopkins, who had appeared in four previous films for Attenborough: Young Winston, A Bridge Too Far, Magic and Chaplin). Between 2006-07, he spent time in Belfast, working on his last film as director and producer, Closing the Ring, a love story set in Belfast during the Second World War and starring Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer and Pete Postlethwaite. According to some of the films he produced, we came to the conclusion that he was probably interested in developing films which correspond to a certain time in history and in most of them, war was one of the main themes. Besides that, we can say that in most of his films there were some kind of lessons or morals in order to make people see things in...
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...While the other students at Joseph Callahan after the end of the school day were getting ready to go home, their friends from Archbishop Kurtz, the nearby all-boy Catholic high school, were paying some of them a visit, Gudruna leaned her back on an empty wall behind her, looking at the contents inside the letter. Inside were documents that pertained to an alleged TDO-VII facility somewhere in the state of Massachusetts, which was said to have been the target of a successful Union raid. Strangely, the facility had gone eerily silent for almost a year now, with the rest of the TDO-VII command structure still lacking any form of contact with this facility. Along with the documents, there was a photo of a group of female Ryanites wearing uniforms from several of the Catholic high school students within the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s jurisdiction. First glances suggested that they were doing homework and conversing with one another to be some kind of German U-Boat. Even though such theories can be entertained by RGA intelligence, there was also something about that photo which appeared odd. Lurking in the background was a girl in a St. Eustace uniform, who was literally standing at a 45 degree angle. Gudruna fold this to be weird, because the girl’s posture was an upright one, and there nothing in the way of proof to justify that this photographed girl was deliberately trying to stand that way. Not to mention, Gudruna could not prove that this photo was legitimate, but at the...
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...Film Assignment: Modern Times (LABR 1F90) 1. What is the significance of the clip of the flock of sheep at the very beginning of the film? In the film Modern Times by Charlie Chaplin, the significance portrayed by the metaphor ‘flock of sheep’ refers to the image of a crowd descending into an underground station. This follows a juxtaposition in which the sheep are the workers. They were being herded as they were streaming out of the Steel factory. Little Tramp played by Chaplin notices that the automation and productivity had literally changed the worker’s views, altering the masses like some livestock of obedient workers. It was as if they did nothing but work a lot with the inclusion of getting paid the least. Furthermore the factory owner or the boss was viewed as someone that was happy and relaxed who watched over all the workers through a pair of panoptic lenses. None of the workers were allowed to neglect any of the boss’s orders. Tramp was seen as a factory worker that has been exhausted from doing repetitive work on the conveyor belt. Critically the flock of sheep filmic metaphor shows that the workers have a sheep like behavior. Even though the two things were meant to represent the same thing; the phenomenon transfer of meaning can be seen as unambiguous. The crowd remains as the crowd and the sheep remains as the sheep. The association of the two simply incites the effect of the symbolic leap from one to the other based on a level that acquires a relative...
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...TH 330 – American Cinema January 29, 2010 Gold Rush Does any movie require a happy ending? Charlie Chaplin added his twist to the meaning of “happy endings” when he directed the film Gold Rush. Even when the movie business was in its early years Chaplin recognized that a happy ending could have a variety of meaning. Furthermore, he tantalized the audience from every angle with his resourcefulness and quick wit. In Gold Rush, Chaplin easily makes fun out of being poor and destitute. For one thing, he was able to turn the hazards and tribulations of “coldness” into comedy. In essence, I am referring to the coldness due to the weather and of some people’s reactions to the Little Tramp. I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of the movie even though it highlights the many aspects of desperate men and women who are willing to put their bodies through immense hardship in the pursuit of gold. For sure, the Little Tramp is by no means on physical par to the other men in the movie; however, he always has an ingenious way of getting what he wants, even the girl. For example, when Big Jim imagines that Charlie is a chicken and runs after him with an axe, Charlie mistakenly shoots a bear and they have food for days. Then, Charlie meets another prospector who lends him his cabin and all he had to do was simply take care of the cabin and the mule. Chaplin was able to pull the audience into the movie; he would have them laughing at one time and sad in the other instance. The film did...
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...I have no idea of how to start this letter off, but I think it will be best of if I begin my letter with thank you. If it weren’t for you to survive under the annexation of the Japanese, both Father and I wouldn’t be here today. Breathing. Working. Sweating. Eatting. All these necessities, the thing that come so natural to us, would have been deprived from us. Even the probability of our existence are against us. So thank you. There are time where we both disagree on certain subjects at time, and I do understand that we’re both a bit stubborn at times, which I got that from you, leading to never ever saying sorry to one another. For that, I feel really regretful. You’ve have always taken care of me since I was little. Giving me piggy back ride to get me to fall asleep and cooking up oatmeal when I didn’t drink milk back when I was younger. Now that I’ve moved out of the house and came here to Merced, you always start off the conversation with, “Have you eaten yet?”, to be honest, I’ve lied about times when I have eaten. I have missed eating your style of cooking. Though the food here is okay, it honestly doesn’t compare to the cooking back at home. Even at home, you would also have asked the same thing, “Are you hungry?” or “Eat this”. The amount of time and love place into the cooking is the ingredients that not every chef can do, and can be only be done through home chefs. There’s always that feeling that I feel that doesn’t feel right when I eat at restaurants. Sure it good...
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...As Karl Marx suggests that “material life appears as the end, and labor, the producer of material life…appears as means”, Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times(1936) exhorts, in numerous ways, that the machine age devoured men both physically and emotionally, breeding a new lineage of ‘human machines’. There is no respect, time or space for individuality or human emotions in this period of modern mechanical industrialization. From the establishing factory shots to the President’s surveillance cameras, the workers are constantly monitored. The workers are merely perfunctory components of the assembly line, and their concern for the effectiveness of the production process is prioritized over any human emotions. This can also be seen in both the two life-threatening scenes where the human is literally consumed by the machine, where both the mechanic and protagonist find no indecorum in going on about their duties and routine with lack of reactions. The flat lighting techniques throughout the film also represent a lack of depth in humanism. The factory workers only chase after the crazy Tramp when he pulls the lever and disrupts the functions of the assembly line, but immediately return to work when it is fixed. It is as if they are systematically programmed in some way, and perhaps the Tramp squirts mechanical oil on their faces to differentiate himself from the other withdrawn ‘human machines’. Although sound in motion pictures was introduced a decade prior to Modern Times...
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...A. GENERAL PROVISIONS AND DEFINITIONS Article 1 - Application of URR. The Uniform Rules for Bank-to-Bank Reimbursements under Documentary Credits ("Rules"), ICC Publication No. 525, shall apply to all Bank-to-Bank Reimbursements where they are incorporated into the text of the Reimbursement Authorization. They are binding on all parties thereto, unless otherwise expressly stipulated in the Reimbursement Authorization. The Issuing Bank is responsible for indicating in the Documentary Credit ("Credit") that Reimbursement Claims are subject to these Rules. In a Bank-to-Bank Reimbursement subject to these Rules, the Reimbursing Bank, acts on the instructions and/or under the authority or the Issuing Bank. These Rules are not intended to override or change the provisions of the ICC Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits. Article 2 - Definitions. As used in these Rules, the following terms shall have the meanings specified in this Article and may be used in the singular or plural as appropriate : a. "Issuing Bank" shall mean the bank that has issued a Credit and the Reimbursement Authorization under that Credit. b. "Reimbursing Bank" shall mean the bank instructed and/or authorized to provide reimbursement pursuant to a Reimbursement Authorization issued by the Issuing Bank. c. "Reimbursement Authorizations" shall mean an instruction and/or authorization independent of the Credit, issued by an Issuing Bank to a Reimbursing Bank to reimburse a Claiming Bank,...
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...genius for constructing comic gags, who moreover understood the film medium with greater sophistication than all but a handful of his peers, speaks to both his modesty and his vanity. It also approaches the mystery of why audiences today may find it harder to connect with Harold Lloyd than they do with, say, Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton. He embodied the spirit of the American dream that any average individual with gumption could attain success, an ideal that still seemed within reach in the twenties, before the Depression, Vietnam, and national disenchantment. Chaplin flirted perennially with pathos, Keaton with melancholy, while Lloyd went his merry way, positive thinking and triumphant. “It’s the optimism,” wrote his defender Richard Griffith, “which chiefly sticks in the highbrow craw and accounts for the continued fundamental lack of interest in him and the continued rating of him below Chaplin, Keaton, and even [Harry] Langdon. Weltschmerz is hard to find in him . . .” And not just world-sorrow, but alienation of any sort. David Thomson gets it right, as usual: “Early clowns are all outsiders, men incapable of, or uninterested in, society’s scale of merit. Chaplin admits the scale but criticizes it. Langdon never notices it....
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