Chaplin Directing City Lights
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2009
- A look behind the scenes as Chaplin directs one of the most memorable scenes in the 1931 film, "City Lights." This particular scene was key in order for the blind girl to think that the Tramp was actually a wealthy man. Chaplin spent a year trying to figure out how to accomplish this, and ended up with 342 takes of the scene when all was said and done. He also did not get along well with Virginia Cherrill who played the blind girl and was easily frustrated with her on set - some of which is apparent in this video.
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Wondetful artist. Unfortunately there are not artists so great as him any more. Romance, melancholy, passion, subtle feelings of true love reaching the terms of self-denial... Truly unforgettable
He was looking for something in this scene. It took too many scenes to find it. It is magical to see him this way, anxious, thinking, and frustrated and deeply involved.
Can you see now .. there's no such great actor as Sir Charlie Chaplin
the master at work, working his magic. i love him. would give anything to be able to go back in time and be part of his movies, but i'd prob be a nervous wreck too !
Such a rare video clip.I think Charlie Chaplin's a perfectionist.
Yes. He literally was.
Ce n est pas un clip ..
I love the faces he makes at the camera, that was so cute :)
I wish we could hear Chaplin give directions to other actors in this clip.
I am 58 and when I was growing up in the 60's I used to watch the old films and was aware of the stars going back to the Keystone Cops, Laurel & Hardy, Keaton, Lloyd and of course Chaplin. The problem today, and I speak to them at work, is that young people think the film industry started in 1995!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is tragic indeed.
How did the media react when chaplin died.
Pretty sure the US didnt care about him that time bc of the communist allegations against him.
I heard when they gave chaplin the oscar he was only allowed not more than a month lol.
Such hypocrisy
Lost Boy The United States have never been all that United much less homogeneous on anything let alone who’s celebrity to celebrate or passing to mourn. But I can tell you that Chaplin was given his due as both an industry pioneer and beloved artist. Thanks to coverage of his Oscar honor, his life story was again well known; his autobiography came out in paperback and all through the ’70’s his films were well attended in theaters as well as art houses and on college campuses. Perhaps because of the moral stands he took while achieving so much in my country (not to mention the injustices he suffered here at the hands of “the establishment” ) my somewhat rebellious generation identified and ‘owned’ him more than it might have. Be assured he was very much cared for.
@@CinemaoftheMind i just didnt like the fact that they didnt allow chaplin to stay more than 1 month or spend his remaining life there after all it was where everything started for him.
Chaplin was the biggest international figure in his time making sound around the world im not even an american i am in south asia but i knew him well bc my mother would tell me that chaplin was my grandfathers favorite actor.
Its just crazy thinking ab it politics is crazy
There only about 100 years off
I'm 14 and I know that film industry was way before 1995
His face itself is an art !
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You wonder, sometimes, why such an artist and a great person had to die.
Oh, how I LOVE, love, love Charlie's mugging for the camera at around 1:45 - that's got to be one of the cutest things I've ever seen him do! Wish I could go back just over 80 years ago and to have him doing this right in front of me at the time and to see those lovely blue eyes of his! I'd faint. LOL *Sigh* I was born WAY too late! Thanks for posting this!!
Missed Charlie Chaplin..
That's The only movie Who make me cry. I cry When He Say "You can See now".
Same dude
I too wept 50 years back, without my notice. Great actor.
So do I. I cried as a child. Now I am 59 and I still cry when I see this scene. Chaplin is the greatest genius of all time.
@@predragpetronijevic9385YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT ABOUT CHARLIE CHAPLIN!😢
…. and I cry at the single profound word “You?”
Yeah, it wasn't so much indecisiveness as it was writer's/director's block. He could have done this film with sound and that would have simplified the whole situation. But Chaplin wanted it to be silent, so he had to figure out how to get the blind girl to think the Tramp was rich visually. A year went by before he did figure it out by using the car. Virginia Cherryl (blind girl) said that Chaplin would simply retake shots when he didn't know what to do, in hopes of something clicking.
Movies with sound were only barely in existence at that time..even two years later 80 percent of movies were still silent
And his music...so beautiful!
YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT 😂😅😊❤😮
Beautiful music accompanying the tremendous passion he had for film making.
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Are you still alive
... it seems like my favorite romantic duos in the movies were actors that didn't get along all that well ...
Always loved Charlie working with the actress, Virginia Cherrill, that played the blind girl in 'City Lights' ...
i have his autobiography book, what a wonderful man
These clips of insight into Chaplin are like grains of gold. Thanks for the look.
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From what I have read, Mr. Chaplin took many takes of scenes before being satisfied. He would tell the actors exactly what he wanted them to do before the shot.
It's right. He also was known as a tyrant and very mean on the set. Perfectionist 'till the bones. But a big artist, this no one can deny.
A true artist and a total perfectionist. But, this was his film, his studio and he was spending his own money. He could take as much time and do as many takes as he wanted to.
It must have been quite difficult on his film sets at times. Showing the actors exactly what he wanted and then expecting them to mimic him perfectly. Today, with computer technology, he could play all the parts. I think that’s what he secretly wanted anyway. I imagine those poor supporting players were nervous wrecks, especially after having to do take after take.
SO MUCH work, he was probably going mad from obsessing over that one scene!
But boy, did it pay off!
Gold. love seeing him been creative and directing.
After all these many takes…he apparently fired this leading lady (cannot remember her name) and cast another, thinking she might be the problem. She wasn’t and he brought her back. A reporter wrote about his creative process and that in a real sense “Chaplin didn’t know what he was doing”. What would have been a great insult to anyone else was in fact the source of his genius; Charlie literally wrote stories by filming them.
I miss Charlie Chaplin. .
Incredible.. amazing Thank you for sharing this document really thank you !
Legendary
Genial Charles Chaplin
OMFG OMFG!! My favorite movie EVER and I never seen this!!! THANK YOOOU for posting this!
The Same Here 🌹😊
Genius at work
Meu artista predileto! ele é perfeito!
It's a great book! I've read it 6x and it just gets better and better =)
So interesting and beautiful!
I love the music in the end
all written by Charlie Chaplin. The music at the end was the theme from Limelight. One of his later movies.
Honoured to see magician at work.
The Same Here About Charlie Chaplin Is A MAGICIAN AT WORK!😮🎥🎞📽🎬
Wow I had no idea there was this much behind the scenes footage!
You're right, partly... haha. But Chaplin filmed part of the film with Cherrill, but he got very frustrated with her and eventually fired her. Mainly because she wanted to get off for a hair appointment then returned late. He was going to then use Georgia Hale, but the cost was way too much so he was forced to rehire Cherrill. =)
Thanks a lot for great movies Charle
Thanks Alot For The Great MOVIES 🎥 Charlie Chaplin!
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Brilliant movie
This video is such a gem. Thanks for uploading!
City Lights is his best creation.
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A perfectionist
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Perfectionist!!
Cool !!! S2 #ChaplinBrasileiro
I was interested to see that Chaplin was still using hand cranked cameras as late as 1930. Motor driven cameras had been available for some years by this time.
He really was an attractive Man😜😜i loved his beautiful smile🥰🥰
master at work
History.
I love it. When will he re born ?
Watch it in 1.25x, It'll feel much better 👌🏾
ARGHH NO WAY! incredibly amazing.
I love P.g
Gênio do humor
Love the use of not only pieces from City Lights, but towards the end Limelight 😍
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its too bad that charlie saved so few outtakes and there isnt b-roll from his other films
would be a boon to film students
haha exactly. Virginia was the better girl, she had, as Chaplin put it, "Blind looking eyes without taking away from her beauty." =)
Does anyone else detect hints of influences by other composers like Tchaikovsky and Gershwin in Chaplin's film score?
I Have!😂😅😮😊❤
Anyone else pick up the discrepancy in the story line? The eyesight operation was advertised as free but he still spent time to get her the money for the surgery.
MightyMouse Speedy Maybe the money was to be able to travel to the place where she could have the operation?
I missed that....and I’ve seen it many, many times.
dear lord give us back charlie chaplin in return will give u rihanna !!!!!!!
God: American government has still not apologized for sending him back to his country. When written apology is given , I may think of your request. By the way who is Rihanna ?
I think the tall man in overalls at 4:41 who looks like he's on the crew is the same tall man who rises up out of the lift in the sidewalk.
The video was uploaded at 2009!!
Yeah, and it's a long story. The short version is that for the entire plot of the film to work, the blind girl had to believe that the Tramp was rich. This is the scene where that has to take place. He didn't know how to do it, so he shot the scene on and off for nearly a year before he figured it out. He did something like 342 takes of it. Chaplin was such a perfectionist, he always took a long time, but this is on record as the most takes he's done of one scene. He's obviously frustrated here.
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When they were finished filming, he said that he never wanted to work with Virginia Cherril again.
Foi quando conseguiu achar como começaria sua historia com a moça sega. Vai pra casa com missão cumprida. Sai CARLITOS e dá entrada CHARLES CHAPLIN calmo.
Estive em várias filmagens na Rede Globo. Era cabelereira. Eu amava o que fazia. Mais por estar ali. Eu queria ajudar a por numa fita os sonhos. Por 3 vezes tentei ajudar difícil situação. Me deram crédito e eu estava certa.....ficou muito bom....eu fiz.....
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@1276epr To the best of my knowledge, it was mostly filmed at the Chaplin Studios with a few "on location in LA" scenes as well.
I don't think even Kubrick dared to have that many takes.
Chaplin could do it because he was his own boss and financier.
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1:57 !! And any particular reason this took so darn long to shoot?
Minnie he had no script. He just started with an idea, then repeated the takes until he got another idea. And sometimes the 7. idea was very good, but not working with the story. Then he had to change the story and shoot everything again. And so on. (I hope, you are still alive, after all, it has been 10 years...)
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Are there more videos like this from different movies?
3:55 Toraichi Kono (高野 虎市)
He was the valet and secretary of Charlie Chaplin
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toraichi_Kono
he never compramise
Another problem was the way she was handing out the flower. They didn't get along too well (she never fell for him), and he just had an image in his mind of what a blind girl would look like doing that.
Jen Sinclair most women did fall for his charm, resulting in his numerous affairs. I probably would've too. Giggling
The role would be from Georgia, he didn't like Virginia's performance, but she didn't have certain crazes that other more experienced actresses had. He decided to stay with her because it had already cost so much money for the recordings, he could not start from scratch again. It was a good choice.
@@kerideggs9844 probably fall in love too... Rsrs
...silly me had to watch Charlie's "mugging" again, and OMG... I can almost feel his sexual charisma and charm coming right through the film! It's easy to see why his reputation as a "lady-killer" was so well earned; what normal red-blooded girl could resist THAT? Ok; I'll stop gushing now. ;-)
does anyone know where this scene was actually filmed?
In the Chaplin studios. It is now the Jim Henson Studios on La brea and Sunset.
@@ILUVGOLFTHANKS FOR SHARING THIS INFO WITH US!😊
How did you find this?
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A pinoy crew on the set ? Wow.
Yes Chaplin WAS a perfectionist.Just wondered why he was so indecisive with this scene .hmm that would be annoying !!!
Minnie.g.hello
wow a treasue
I noticed Mr. Chaplin spent a lot time flirting with Miss Cherrill was only 22 - 23 years old at the time. Chaplin was almost twice her age and was known for (over) acting foolishly around very young women. Also, Chaplin shot way too much footage (almost double) the expected amount budgeted. 342 takes for one scene seems a tad much.
He was paying all the bills he could do whatever he wanted HE SET THE BUDGET
cool
COOL 😎
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Wow it's the book i read?! enjoy ze big read ! :)
Ze Goddard for life YAH!
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Awesome =D
And mymy Thank you!
But you ,too,rock! Ahaha
Chaplin et Goddard for everrrr Muahahahaha ;]
Minnie.hello.hy
Is anyone still alive in this clip?
No
@@wishline3795NO!😮
better of real film
CEGA
'and it says Paulette Goddard :D...i got so excited. '
AWH that is very CUUTEEE! but i get excited when i see her name in books and places too. sheeeeee's the gal ..yup she is.
Wow you got a Chaplin book for your bday? It's not called Chaplin And His Times is it? huge book i borrowed from the library. ^_^
What do you mean..? famous people shared that book you have?? :o
Minnie.hello.g
OK, he was a genius (I really think that) , but, to repeat the scene 342 times? There are two options: the actors were not capable to understand him or he was not capable to explain to them what he wanted in this scene.
Malik Tintilic I think it was that latter. He was so idolized that he may have given much undo latitude and too little scrutiny. Also did you not the over the top flirting with a very young Miss Cherrill.....while the cameras are rolling.
@@Folma7 Too little scrutiny ? You guys are all off.....Chaplin had total control the only person he had to answer to was himself....he was THE STUDIO.....he was paying all the bills...
@@harlow743YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT ABOUT CHARLIE CHAPLIN!😮
It is a central take and he find the true chaplinasque.
I'm reading his Biography. (Not Auto-biography) He was a Monster, in every area of life except the portrayal on screen, I'm very sorry to say. Many successful artists remain wonderful people; opposite for this poor human.
I don't excuse his character, or complete lack thereof, for the contribution to the arts.
It's depressing that $10,000 per week(actual 1916 salary) at age 26, had zero influence toward a kind, stable or generous man.
which biography...there are a few
Nobody cares
@Ky G the greatest man alive? What the heck.