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[Narrator] December 1916.
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The Society for
Psychical Research
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whose publications include
"Phantasms of The Living"
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and "Human Personality and
Its Survival Of Bodily Death"
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are reporting an
extraordinary phenomenon.
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Mr. Charles Chaplin,
motion picture comedian,
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has been cited in
hundreds of places,
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simultaneously.
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From the Atlantic
to the Pacific,
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from the Canadian
boundary to the Gulf,
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people wait at stations
to see Mr. Chaplin.
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In the same hour,
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crowds are gathering at
hotels across the country.
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(people chattering)
(dramatic music)
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"Have you got the Chaplin-oia?"
asks one newspaper.
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Others report the Chaplin Fever,
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the Chaplin Craze,
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Charlie-mania.
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"Chaplin-itis,"
runs one headline,
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"Has spread across America.
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(bright sprightly music)
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Bootlegs, counterfeits, and
imitators flood the market.
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Lookalike contests spring
up across the globe.
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It's rumored that Chaplin
himself entered such a contest
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and came 20th.
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(bright music)
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People demand to know,
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"Who is the Real
Charlie Chaplin?"
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(dramatic music)
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(dramatic music)
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(dramatic music)
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(suspenseful music)
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(dark dramatic music)
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(suspenseful music)
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(dramatic music)
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(reel clicking)
(dramatic music)
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(bright playful music)
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When we think of
Charlie Chaplin,
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we picture this man.
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(bright playful music)
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This is the moment he first
steps on to the screen.
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And he looks at us.
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(bright playful music)
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He reappears soon
after in other films.
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Here he is again.
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And here.
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(bright playful music)
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And he keeps looking at us.
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(gentle music)
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But this is not Charlie Chaplin.
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This man has no name.
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He has no fixed address.
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No family.
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(bright music)
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No set point in space or time.
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You can't pin him down.
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(reel clicking)
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(bright music)
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The only constants
are the hat, the cane,
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the boots and the mustache.
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Sometimes just the mustache.
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(gentle music)
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So who is he?
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He's been called the little man.
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The little fellow.
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The Tramp.
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He's a character played
by Charlie Chaplin.
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(bright music)
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(crowd cheering)
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(upbeat music)
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"The Tramp" will make
Chaplin more famous
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than any king,
queen, or emperor.
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More famous than any
philosopher, artist,
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or religious figure.
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Famous in a way that
no one has been before.
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(audience laughing)
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(reel clicking)
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(bright music)
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Chaplin makes "The Tramp" and
"The Tramp" makes Chaplin.
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You can't see one without
looking at the other.
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(thoughtful music)
(reel clicking)
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They tell each other's stories.
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So where do we start?
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Here's how Chaplin starts.
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(gentle music)
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1889 begins with a total
eclipse of the sun.
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This year, the Eiffel
tower opens to the public.
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Adolph Hitler is born.
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In Kyoto, Nintendo is founded.
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They make playing cards.
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Electric streetlights are
being installed in London
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where Jack the Ripper
remains at large.
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The pizza margarita is invented.
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They're still working
on the aero plane.
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This is how movies look in 1889.
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(film crackling)
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(indistinct) 89.
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[Narrator] These are
recordings of the human voice.
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(man speaking indistinctly)
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(birds chirping)
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Of birdsong.
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(birds chirping)
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Of music.
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(woman vocalizing)
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(gentle music)
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(dramatic music)
(bell tolling)
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Film grows up alongside Chaplin.
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(people chattering)
(gentle music)
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It captures the London
streets he roams as a kid.
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(people chattering)
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(mysterious music)
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The children he plays with.
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[Narrator] This is the
voice of Effie Wisdom.
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(tape whirring)
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(engine puttering)
(gentle music)
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[Narrator] Captured on tape
when she was 92 years old.
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(birds chirping)
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(dog barking)
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(interviewer laughs)
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(birds chirping)
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(audience laughing)
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(gentle music)
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(tape whirring)
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[Narrator] It takes 12
days for the Karno Company
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to cross the Atlantic.
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(gentle music)
(engine rumbling)
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12 days in a rat
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At first sight of land,
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one young man leans
over the railing
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and screams out.
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(bright music)
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(birds squawking)
(gentle music)
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(train whistling)
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They embark on a grueling
tour of the continent.
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Playing three shows a day.
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(audience applauding)
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Fred Karno's brand
of knockabout comedy
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is intensely physical.
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(dramatic music)
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He teaches his
comics how to trip.
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How to tumble, slide and fall.
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How to take a punch.
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How to fall down a
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(audience applauding)
(audience cheering)
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They're the best
in the business.
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(audience cheering)
(audience applauding)
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And wherever they go,
one performer stands out.
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(bright music)
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But his tour mates
can't work him out.
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Offstage, he's quiet,
moody and reclusive.
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He's usually shabby
in appearance.
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Then, without warning,
he'll dress to kill.
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He teaches himself the
cello, ancient Greek, yoga.
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But above all he vows that
he will not return poor.
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(dramatic music)
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(cable car rumbling)
(bell clanging)
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In California, a
fortune teller tells him
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he will soon enter a new field
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in which he will earn
a tremendous fortune.
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(dramatic music)
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They say that fortunes are
there to be made in America.
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The oil boom has created
millionaires overnight.
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Henry Ford has devised
the modern assembly line.
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And Nickelodeon's opening in
cities across the country,
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showing motion picture
comedies around the clock.
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(audience laughing)
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(pensive music)
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But Chaplin isn't
impressed by the movies.
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He thinks they're a passing fad.
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(bright music)
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(upbeat music)
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[Mack] Mr. Chaplin got
into motion pictures purely,
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in my mind, by accident.
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[Narrator] This is the
voice of Mack Sennett,
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pioneer of movie comedy,
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founder of Keystone Studios,
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specialists in custard pie
warfare and high-speed chases,
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the Mack Sennett Bathing
Girls, the Keystone Kops.
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(upbeat music)
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[Mack] I have a comedian
working for me at the time.
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His name was Ford Sterling.
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He was a chief of
the Keystone Kops.
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[Narrator] One day
Sterling quits.
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I said, "Oh, shucks".
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[Narrator] Suddenly
Sennett needs a new lead.
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[Mack] Right away, I
thought of a comedian
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that I'd seen in an
English act called,
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"A Night in the
London Music Hall."
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I couldn't remember
the name at the time,
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but I wired to New York to
associates to find this man.
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And I said, his name is
Champion, Chaprin, or Chambers,
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or something like that.
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So they traced him in
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and they found him in a
small town in Pennsylvania.
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[Narrator] Sennett
offers him $150 a week,
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three times the money
he's getting now.
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He decides he'll stick
it out for a year.
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(upbeat music)
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[Mack] And if Ford Sterling
had continued with me,
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the chances are that Chaplin
would have returned to England
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and we'd have probably
missed the greatest comedian
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we've ever seen.
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(reel rattling)
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(reel whirring)
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[Narrator] This is
Chaplin telling the story
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in a 1966 interview
for "Life Magazine."
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[Narrator] It's one of the
only times Chaplin has allowed
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a tape recorder
within these walls.
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(bright music)
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[Narrator] The million
dollar question.
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He's been asked this countless
times by journalists.
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[Narrator] And also by lawyers.
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(upbeat music)
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This man looks familiar.
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The hat, the mustache.
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But this is not Charlie Chaplin.
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In the 1920s, this
man releases a series
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of knockoff Chaplin films
under the name Charles Aplin.
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(dramatic music)
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Chaplin sues Aplin
and the trial delves
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into the origins of the Tramp.
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Firstly, Aplin claims he
wasn't imitating Chaplin.
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He was imitating Billy West,
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the famous Chaplin impersonator.
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"Aplin's Chaplin isn't
Chaplin," says Aplin.
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Aplin's Chaplin is an imitation
of an imitation of Chaplin.
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"Besides, if anyone should
be on trial for imitation,"
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says Aplin, "It's Chaplin."
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Two of Chaplin's
Karno colleagues,
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Fred Kitchen and Billy Ritchie,
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both claim that Chaplin's Tramp
is an imitation of theirs.
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"I was the first says," Ritchie,
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who goes on to make a living
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producing knockoff
Chaplin films.
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(upbeat music)
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But Aplin and Chaplin, Ritchie
and Kitchen are all following
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in the wake of a great
wave of tramp comedians
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(audience applauding)
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who have been touring
the vaudeville circuit
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since the late 19th century.
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(train whining)
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These comedians are
themselves inspired
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by real tramps.
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The drifters who crisscross
America in search of work.
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(gentle music)
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The homeless Chaplin grew up
with on the streets of London.
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(gentle music)
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These men are more
likely to see the inside
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of a police cell
than a movie studio.
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But in Chapman's
telling the creation
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of his Tramp is spontaneous.
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(camera flash popping)
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(upbeat music)
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[Narrator] He's just
made his screen debut,
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a clear knockoff of his
predecessor Ford Sterling.
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And the reviews aren't good.
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(dramatic music)
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(bright playful music)
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[Narrator] In fact, the
shoes were Sterling's,
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the trousers, Fatty Arbuckle's
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and the hat belonged
to somebody's father.
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The costume isn't stolen,
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but it's assembled, magpie-like,
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from bits of other costumes.
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(dramatic music)
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[Narrator] And so, we're
back here, February, 1914.
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The moment he first
steps onto the screen
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and looks at us.
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(bright playful music)
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And this time the
reviews aren't half bad.
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(light upbeat music)
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(gentle music)
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(dramatic music)
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(dramatic music)
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(upbeat music)
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(dramatic music)
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(nightstick thudding)
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(dramatic music)
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(triumphant music)
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(upbeat music)
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(upbeat music)
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(dramatic music)
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(audience cheering)
(dramatic music)
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(people chattering)
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(gentle music)
(audience laughing)
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(bright upbeat music)
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[Narrator] And it's
not just New York.
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(upbeat music)
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Why is Chaplin fever
spreading across the world?
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What is it about
this little Tramp?
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00:29:03,033 --> 00:29:06,328
(gentle pensive music)
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Well, he's funny.
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He can take any situation
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(bright music)
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and make it silly.
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(gentle music)
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(gentle music)
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(dramatic music)
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(suspenseful music)
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(dramatic music)
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(upbeat music)
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But it's more than that.
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In a society sharply
defined by class,
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the Tramp not only
stands up to the man.
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He gives them a kick up
the arse for good measure.
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(dramatic music)
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(gentle music)
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To the millions of migrants,
dreaming of a new life,
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the Tramp is someone
without a nation.
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(whistle shrilling)
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(dramatic music)
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Someone who has no language,
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but who speaks to everyone.
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(dramatic music)
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And in a world divided
by bitter conflict,
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the Tramp can make you laugh,
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whichever side you're on.
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(dramatic music)
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(bright music)
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The Tramp defies the
boundaries of identity.
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He blurs gender and sexuality.
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He upends authority and class.
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(bright music)
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(gentle music)
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He's a nobody
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and he belongs to everybody.
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00:31:53,078 --> 00:31:55,664
(gentle music)
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00:31:58,208 --> 00:32:01,211
(audience cheering)
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00:32:02,420 --> 00:32:05,257
(dramatic music)
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In the work house
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Chaplin dreamed
of becoming rich,
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famous and beloved.
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He's now the highest
paid actor in the world.
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The most famous man alive.
346
00:32:38,582 --> 00:32:41,167
(gentle music)
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[Charlie] So all the
adulation, it's not for me.
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It's for the little man.
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(bright pensive music)
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First impression was the eyes.
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They could be so warm and so
cold in a flash of a second.
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Because he was a
charmer, you know.
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[Douglas] Charlie
was a great exhibitionist.
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(gentle music)
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(people chattering)
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Very flamboyant.
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He put on a great show.
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(gentle music)
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He loved to talk on any subject,
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pretend that he was a rebel
and a radical politically.
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And he had the means
of making people think
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that he was a very
profound reader,
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when actually I think
he read the first page
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of a number of books
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and made people think
he read the whole thing.
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(gentle music)
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00:34:17,555 --> 00:34:19,516
[Virginia] Charlie
was always acting.
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Always on show, always
the entertainer.
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He didn't want people to
know the real Charlie.
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00:34:36,574 --> 00:34:38,952
(gentle music)
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One's bound to be insecure
with a childhood like his.
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(somber music)
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[Lita] He never felt
anybody loved him.
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(pensive music)
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00:34:56,428 --> 00:34:57,554
He never believed it.
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He said, "Why would
anybody love me?"
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(pensive music)
(birds chirping)
378
00:35:19,743 --> 00:35:21,161
[Eddie] I am no psychiatrist,
379
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but it's easy to see that
still has a fear of poverty.
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Don't care how
much money he has.
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00:35:33,214 --> 00:35:34,674
He still has fear of poverty.
382
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:41,765
(gentle music)
(camera shutter clicking)
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00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,954
(dramatic music)
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(dramatic music)
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[Narrator] Within a few years,
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Chaplin has built
his own studio,
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founded a distribution company,
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00:36:31,981 --> 00:36:35,151
liberated himself from
dependence on financial backers.
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(dramatic music)
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He follows no schedule.
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He doesn't even follow a script.
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(reel clicking)
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00:36:52,877 --> 00:36:55,171
He starts with a vague idea
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and replays it again
and again and again,
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until it becomes funny.
396
00:37:04,139 --> 00:37:09,144
(dramatic music)
(reel whirring)
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00:37:22,907 --> 00:37:25,577
(reel whizzing)
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00:37:27,829 --> 00:37:31,082
(reel clattering)
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00:37:31,124 --> 00:37:33,835
(dramatic music)
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00:37:33,877 --> 00:37:37,589
The actors are instructed
to perform each gesture
401
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exactly as he does
402
00:37:40,967 --> 00:37:43,428
as though they are mere
extensions of his body.
403
00:37:46,264 --> 00:37:51,144
Every nuance, every
glance, he makes first.
404
00:37:53,897 --> 00:37:56,733
His assistant says that if
he could have done every job
405
00:37:56,774 --> 00:37:59,319
on set himself, he would have.
406
00:38:00,361 --> 00:38:03,907
As it is, he writes,
directs, produces,
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edits, scores, and stars.
408
00:38:07,619 --> 00:38:09,579
(dramatic music)
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00:38:09,621 --> 00:38:12,373
He even tries his hand
at hair and makeup.
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00:38:12,415 --> 00:38:15,043
(bright music)
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00:38:18,838 --> 00:38:21,925
Finally, when he
has total control,
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he begins his most
ambitious project yet.
413
00:38:29,641 --> 00:38:32,936
(gentle pensive music)
414
00:38:40,944 --> 00:38:43,738
(mournful music)
415
00:38:45,490 --> 00:38:49,160
(gentle pensive music)
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00:38:49,202 --> 00:38:52,622
It's the story of
an abandoned child.
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00:38:55,291 --> 00:39:00,213
Of a single mother too
poor to care for him.
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00:39:01,005 --> 00:39:04,300
(gentle pensive music)
419
00:39:08,096 --> 00:39:10,890
(mournful music)
420
00:39:15,144 --> 00:39:17,772
(gentle music)
421
00:39:32,954 --> 00:39:35,039
(gentle peaceful music)
422
00:39:35,081 --> 00:39:38,293
In another life, the boy is
headed for the workhouse.
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00:39:40,003 --> 00:39:42,463
(dramatic music)
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00:39:43,673 --> 00:39:46,467
But in this version, when
the authorities arrive
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00:39:46,509 --> 00:39:47,552
to take him away,
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00:39:49,679 --> 00:39:52,849
he's not going without a fight.
427
00:39:52,890 --> 00:39:55,685
(dramatic music)
428
00:39:58,896 --> 00:40:01,941
(suspenseful music)
429
00:40:05,361 --> 00:40:07,780
(dramatic music)
430
00:40:07,822 --> 00:40:10,575
(mournful music)
431
00:40:29,761 --> 00:40:32,555
(dramatic music)
432
00:40:41,981 --> 00:40:44,567
(gentle music)
433
00:40:54,660 --> 00:40:57,789
(sweet gentle music)
434
00:41:06,798 --> 00:41:09,425
(wind howling)
435
00:41:12,303 --> 00:41:17,350
(crowd roaring)
(crowd cheering)
436
00:41:40,164 --> 00:41:45,169
(pensive music)
(crowd cheering)
437
00:41:58,349 --> 00:42:01,853
(gentle thoughtful music)
438
00:42:04,522 --> 00:42:07,108
It's been eight years
since he left London.
439
00:42:09,944 --> 00:42:11,863
And when he finally gets back,
440
00:42:14,031 --> 00:42:16,159
he hears a familiar voice.
441
00:42:51,402 --> 00:42:54,030
(somber music)
442
00:43:15,134 --> 00:43:19,388
[Narrator] He finds himself
back in the attic room
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00:43:19,430 --> 00:43:21,599
of No. 3 Pownall Terrace.
444
00:43:26,062 --> 00:43:28,940
Four walls that the
Chaplin family called home.
445
00:43:32,693 --> 00:43:34,862
Where Chaplin's mother, Hannah,
446
00:43:34,904 --> 00:43:37,782
delighted him with her
costumes and impressions.
447
00:43:41,244 --> 00:43:45,748
Where she struggled to make
ends meet after her voice
448
00:43:45,790 --> 00:43:48,668
and then her stage
career failed.
449
00:43:48,709 --> 00:43:51,295
(somber music)
450
00:43:54,423 --> 00:43:55,716
She sat at this window
451
00:43:56,801 --> 00:43:59,303
and told Charlie she
could see ghosts outside
452
00:44:02,348 --> 00:44:04,475
before she was dragged
off to the asylum.
453
00:44:06,519 --> 00:44:09,272
(dramatic music)
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00:44:13,734 --> 00:44:17,863
And Charlie's mother
hasn't left London.
455
00:44:17,905 --> 00:44:19,865
(gentle pensive music)
456
00:44:19,907 --> 00:44:21,617
She's living in a nursing home.
457
00:44:26,497 --> 00:44:28,666
So when Chaplin
returns to America,
458
00:44:33,421 --> 00:44:34,630
he brings her with him.
459
00:44:35,506 --> 00:44:40,553
(gentle music)
(birds chirping)
460
00:44:41,846 --> 00:44:44,473
But she teeters between worlds.
461
00:44:44,515 --> 00:44:47,310
(dramatic music)
462
00:44:51,272 --> 00:44:53,691
Present and past seem to blur.
463
00:44:57,111 --> 00:45:00,114
When she sees her son
dressed as a tramp, she says,
464
00:45:01,616 --> 00:45:06,662
"Charlie, I have to
get you a new suit.
465
00:45:07,622 --> 00:45:10,333
(pensive music)
466
00:45:11,667 --> 00:45:14,211
(gentle music)
467
00:45:16,922 --> 00:45:20,801
Meanwhile, her son is
making a Hollywood epic.
468
00:45:21,969 --> 00:45:24,722
(dramatic music)
469
00:45:33,814 --> 00:45:38,653
One that takes the Tramp
to the ends of the earth.
470
00:45:38,694 --> 00:45:41,447
(dramatic music)
471
00:45:45,201 --> 00:45:46,619
(gentle music)
472
00:45:46,661 --> 00:45:51,540
But it's themes
are closer to home.
473
00:45:55,544 --> 00:45:59,006
(gentle thoughtful music)
474
00:46:05,137 --> 00:46:08,349
(lively upbeat music)
475
00:46:15,356 --> 00:46:18,109
(dramatic music)
476
00:46:24,865 --> 00:46:27,451
(gentle music)
477
00:46:38,671 --> 00:46:41,257
(gentle music)
478
00:46:53,060 --> 00:46:55,980
(thoughtful music)
479
00:47:03,070 --> 00:47:08,117
(explosion booming)
(people chattering)
480
00:47:08,576 --> 00:47:11,370
(sirens wailing)
481
00:47:13,914 --> 00:47:15,791
[Man] This is a test
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to see how my voice
records on the film.
483
00:47:20,546 --> 00:47:23,174
(Charlie whistling)
484
00:47:23,591 --> 00:47:27,011
You are now listening to
a talking, moving picture.
485
00:47:27,052 --> 00:47:30,014
We believe an entirely
new art will be created.
486
00:47:30,055 --> 00:47:33,309
The beginning of a new
era in motion pictures.
487
00:47:35,478 --> 00:47:37,021
(people humming)
488
00:47:37,062 --> 00:47:41,984
(birds chirping)
(reel clicking)
489
00:47:42,026 --> 00:47:45,988
Suddenly the Tramp's strength
490
00:47:47,698 --> 00:47:49,325
becomes his weakness.
491
00:47:49,366 --> 00:47:53,829
(distorted voices chattering)
492
00:47:53,871 --> 00:47:54,914
He can't talk.
493
00:47:57,541 --> 00:47:59,293
What language would he speak?
494
00:48:01,337 --> 00:48:02,463
What dialect?
495
00:48:04,089 --> 00:48:08,552
(distorted voices chattering)
(dramatic music)
496
00:48:08,594 --> 00:48:11,764
1928 Warner axes all
its silent projects.
497
00:48:12,848 --> 00:48:15,810
1929 Fox follows.
498
00:48:15,851 --> 00:48:16,977
By 1930,
499
00:48:17,019 --> 00:48:18,979
(lion roaring)
500
00:48:19,021 --> 00:48:21,524
all the major
studios are talking.
501
00:48:23,734 --> 00:48:27,947
One by one Chaplin's
contemporaries start to talk.
502
00:48:27,988 --> 00:48:30,157
First, Laurel and Hardy.
503
00:48:30,199 --> 00:48:31,367
My trunk is packed
504
00:48:31,408 --> 00:48:34,870
and I am leaving for
South America, tonight.
505
00:48:34,912 --> 00:48:36,497
[Narrator] Then Harold Lloyd.
506
00:48:37,581 --> 00:48:39,625
I don't know what to say.
507
00:48:39,667 --> 00:48:41,627
Well, that's nothing new, dear.
508
00:48:41,669 --> 00:48:43,712
[Narrator] Then, Buster Keaton.
509
00:48:43,754 --> 00:48:46,298
Well, I got a lot of
serious talking to do
510
00:48:46,340 --> 00:48:48,384
and you got a lot of
serious listening to do.
511
00:48:49,343 --> 00:48:52,054
[Narrator] The talky
revolution is here.
512
00:48:52,096 --> 00:48:54,557
It's alive! It's alive!
513
00:48:54,807 --> 00:48:56,475
[Narrator] The
public is going crazy
514
00:48:56,517 --> 00:48:58,727
for anything that talks.
515
00:48:58,769 --> 00:49:00,479
Wait a minute! Wait a minute!
516
00:49:00,521 --> 00:49:01,897
You ain't heard nothin'.
517
00:49:01,939 --> 00:49:04,900
[Narrator] But Chaplin
decides to do the unthinkable.
518
00:49:06,527 --> 00:49:08,404
He'll make a silent film.
519
00:49:08,445 --> 00:49:11,156
(dramatic music)
520
00:49:11,198 --> 00:49:16,370
(silence)
521
00:49:16,412 --> 00:49:19,582
(sweet pensive music)
522
00:49:27,131 --> 00:49:30,009
Like most romantic comedies,
523
00:49:30,050 --> 00:49:32,928
"City Lights"
turns on a misunderstanding.
524
00:49:34,054 --> 00:49:36,348
(sweet gentle music)
525
00:49:36,390 --> 00:49:40,269
A blind flower girl mistakes
the Tramp for a millionaire.
526
00:49:41,312 --> 00:49:43,772
(gentle music)
527
00:49:43,814 --> 00:49:48,068
Simple enough on paper,
but there is no paper.
528
00:49:49,695 --> 00:49:51,947
Chaplin works without a script.
529
00:49:53,240 --> 00:49:56,035
And this scene is
to drive Chaplin
530
00:49:56,076 --> 00:49:58,621
and everyone around him
531
00:49:59,455 --> 00:50:01,624
to the edge of madness.
532
00:50:04,335 --> 00:50:05,377
[Interviewer] Can you tell us
533
00:50:05,419 --> 00:50:06,962
about the shooting
of that sequence?
534
00:50:09,131 --> 00:50:10,174
[Virginia] Oh dear.
535
00:50:11,967 --> 00:50:14,595
(dramatic music)
536
00:50:14,637 --> 00:50:18,140
He'd take it over and over
and over again.
537
00:50:19,266 --> 00:50:21,310
I often thought
that if he couldn't think
538
00:50:21,352 --> 00:50:22,645
what he was going to do next,
539
00:50:22,686 --> 00:50:25,439
he simply went on doing
the same shot over again
540
00:50:25,481 --> 00:50:26,649
until he thought of it.
541
00:50:30,653 --> 00:50:31,820
[Narrator] Chaplain agonizes
542
00:50:31,862 --> 00:50:33,864
over this mistaken
identity scene.
543
00:50:36,241 --> 00:50:37,993
It's the heart of the film.
544
00:50:38,035 --> 00:50:39,453
It has to feel right.
545
00:50:40,829 --> 00:50:42,998
[Virginia] He was
a perfectionist.
546
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:46,669
And to us it often seem
to be exactly the same.
547
00:50:48,379 --> 00:50:50,881
When he'd finally
say "It's a take,"
548
00:50:50,923 --> 00:50:52,341
we'd breathe a sigh of relief.
549
00:50:52,383 --> 00:50:55,052
And then he'd say, "Well,
perhaps just one more time."
550
00:51:11,235 --> 00:51:15,114
[Narrator] It's not
working. Why isn't it working?
551
00:51:15,155 --> 00:51:17,908
(dramatic music)
552
00:51:19,076 --> 00:51:22,371
What if the rich man
buys a flower first?
553
00:51:22,413 --> 00:51:25,040
Then, no.
554
00:51:27,668 --> 00:51:29,128
Maybe it's Virginia Cherrill.
555
00:51:51,608 --> 00:51:53,986
[Narrator] 270 days
into the shoot.
556
00:51:54,903 --> 00:51:56,405
[Virginia] Charlie fired me.
557
00:51:57,614 --> 00:52:00,200
[Narrator] It's
Cherrill. She's not right.
558
00:52:00,242 --> 00:52:02,578
He needs a new
flower girl and fast.
559
00:52:04,538 --> 00:52:07,249
The whole thing is going to
cost a fortune to reshoot.
560
00:52:10,127 --> 00:52:11,920
He hires Georgia Hale,
561
00:52:11,962 --> 00:52:13,922
his leading lady
from "The Gold Rush."
562
00:52:16,216 --> 00:52:18,093
[Georgia] He said,
"I'm going to redo all
563
00:52:18,135 --> 00:52:19,636
of 'City Lights' with you."
564
00:52:22,306 --> 00:52:24,641
I'm gonna redo
the whole thing with you.
565
00:52:26,226 --> 00:52:29,021
[Narrator] But, no.
Hale's not right either.
566
00:52:29,063 --> 00:52:30,939
(dramatic music)
567
00:52:30,981 --> 00:52:32,524
He tests other actresses.
568
00:52:37,321 --> 00:52:41,283
They're just not, maybe
Cherrill was the one.
569
00:52:42,409 --> 00:52:44,787
He begs Cherrill to come back.
570
00:52:44,828 --> 00:52:47,623
(dramatic music)
571
00:52:50,834 --> 00:52:53,295
It's 534 days into the shoot,
572
00:52:55,005 --> 00:52:57,216
but they still haven't
got the flower scene.
573
00:53:01,011 --> 00:53:03,305
He shot an entire film
around the fulcrum
574
00:53:03,347 --> 00:53:04,807
of this mistaken identity
575
00:53:07,101 --> 00:53:08,811
and it just isn't working.
576
00:53:10,020 --> 00:53:12,189
(suspenseful music)
577
00:53:12,231 --> 00:53:13,315
Then it comes to him.
578
00:53:18,278 --> 00:53:19,530
A slamming door.
579
00:53:22,032 --> 00:53:25,369
The key to Chaplin's
defiantly silent opus
580
00:53:27,663 --> 00:53:28,539
is a sound.
581
00:53:31,542 --> 00:53:34,169
(gentle music)
582
00:53:51,728 --> 00:53:54,356
(gentle music)
583
00:54:08,328 --> 00:54:10,914
(gentle music)
584
00:54:14,251 --> 00:54:16,879
(gentle music)
585
00:54:19,464 --> 00:54:22,050
(gentle music)
586
00:54:45,782 --> 00:54:48,410
(gentle music)
587
00:54:55,792 --> 00:54:58,420
(gentle music)
588
00:55:08,096 --> 00:55:11,225
(sweet gentle music)
589
00:55:31,536 --> 00:55:34,122
(gentle music)
590
00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:58,647
(film whirring)
(gentle music)
591
00:56:05,654 --> 00:56:07,656
(gentle music)
592
00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:19,668
(gentle music)
593
00:56:42,816 --> 00:56:45,402
(gentle music)
594
00:56:56,580 --> 00:56:59,291
(pensive music)
595
00:57:15,432 --> 00:57:18,060
(gentle music)
596
00:57:21,730 --> 00:57:23,982
(crowd cheering)
597
00:57:24,024 --> 00:57:28,528
[Narrator] At the premiere,
50,000 people turn out,
598
00:57:28,570 --> 00:57:30,739
hoping to see the Tramp
and the flower girl.
599
00:57:34,368 --> 00:57:36,119
And some speculate the romance
600
00:57:36,161 --> 00:57:38,080
may not be confined
to the screen.
601
00:57:41,208 --> 00:57:43,585
[Virginia] Many people
thought I was his girlfriend,
602
00:57:43,627 --> 00:57:44,544
but I wasn't.
603
00:57:46,588 --> 00:57:50,926
I was much too old.
I was 20. (laughs)
604
00:57:55,305 --> 00:57:56,932
[Narrator] All four
of Chaplin's wives
605
00:57:56,973 --> 00:57:58,517
were young actresses.
606
00:58:00,769 --> 00:58:02,604
Three were teenagers.
607
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:08,777
I've asked the author
of this book to visit us.
608
00:58:08,819 --> 00:58:10,570
Her name is Lita Grey Chaplin.
609
00:58:10,612 --> 00:58:12,280
The title is "My
life With Chaplin."
610
00:58:12,322 --> 00:58:15,033
[Narrator] We only have one
of Chaplin's wives on tape.
611
00:58:15,075 --> 00:58:17,577
[Interviewer] Second wife
of Charlie Chaplin and-
612
00:58:17,619 --> 00:58:21,832
[Narrator] 1966 she
releases her tell-all memoir.
613
00:58:21,873 --> 00:58:24,418
It is a controversial
sensational book.
614
00:58:24,459 --> 00:58:26,711
And here is Lita Grey Chaplin.
615
00:58:26,753 --> 00:58:29,131
(audience applauding)
616
00:58:29,172 --> 00:58:31,800
(upbeat music)
617
00:58:33,677 --> 00:58:34,845
I'm curious, Lita,
618
00:58:34,886 --> 00:58:37,264
to find out why
you would write this book.
619
00:58:38,890 --> 00:58:40,642
I had a compulsion to write it.
620
00:58:40,684 --> 00:58:43,061
I felt that the story
just had to be told
621
00:58:43,103 --> 00:58:45,230
or rather I had
to tell the story.
622
00:58:45,272 --> 00:58:48,108
I had lived so many years
with the untrue story.
623
00:58:48,150 --> 00:58:51,111
You starred in one of his movies
624
00:58:51,153 --> 00:58:52,779
or you appeared in
one of his movies.
625
00:58:52,821 --> 00:58:54,781
[Lita] "The Kid" when
I was 12 years old.
626
00:58:54,823 --> 00:58:57,451
(upbeat music)
627
00:59:08,587 --> 00:59:10,130
Can I ask how old you
were when you married him
628
00:59:10,172 --> 00:59:10,964
or is that a secret?
629
00:59:11,006 --> 00:59:11,840
Sixteen.
630
00:59:13,049 --> 00:59:15,844
And were you then heading
for a motion picture career?
631
00:59:17,596 --> 00:59:20,015
Yes, I had begun in
"The Gold Rush," but
632
00:59:23,185 --> 00:59:26,688
(throat clearing) I
couldn't finish the picture.
633
00:59:26,730 --> 00:59:28,732
Charlie takes two years to
make a picture, you know,
634
00:59:28,773 --> 00:59:31,818
and we became involved in
the meantime in such a way
635
00:59:31,860 --> 00:59:34,070
that I couldn't have
completed the picture.
636
00:59:36,323 --> 00:59:40,368
[Narrator] A teenage girl
pregnant with Chaplin's child.
637
00:59:42,287 --> 00:59:44,164
His first wife, Mildred Harris,
638
00:59:45,499 --> 00:59:47,042
went through something similar.
639
00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:52,714
She divorced Chaplin,
citing mental cruelty.
640
00:59:54,883 --> 00:59:57,385
And things don't start
any better for Lita.
641
00:59:59,679 --> 01:00:01,181
[Lita] We were married in Mexico
642
01:00:01,223 --> 01:00:04,726
because Charlie didn't want
much said about the marriage.
643
01:00:04,768 --> 01:00:06,478
He was pretty bitter
in the beginning.
644
01:00:06,520 --> 01:00:09,898
On the way back on the
train, he was quite nasty.
645
01:00:09,940 --> 01:00:12,734
We were standing out on the
platform between the cars
646
01:00:12,776 --> 01:00:14,319
while the train was traveling.
647
01:00:14,819 --> 01:00:17,322
And he said, we could just
end this whole situation
648
01:00:17,364 --> 01:00:18,573
if you'd just jump.
649
01:00:19,407 --> 01:00:21,993
(somber music)
650
01:00:26,623 --> 01:00:29,751
[Narrator] Two years
later, Lita sues for divorce
651
01:00:29,793 --> 01:00:32,754
(gentle music)
652
01:00:32,796 --> 01:00:35,090
and full custody of
their two children.
653
01:00:38,009 --> 01:00:40,095
It is, up to this point,
654
01:00:40,136 --> 01:00:43,223
the most expensive divorce
in Hollywood's history.
655
01:00:46,935 --> 01:00:49,437
The petition is so sensational
656
01:00:49,479 --> 01:00:52,190
that copies of it start
selling on the street.
657
01:00:53,191 --> 01:00:56,152
(thoughtful music)
658
01:00:58,697 --> 01:01:01,992
Lita describes him
as a serial adulterer
659
01:01:02,033 --> 01:01:04,619
who cheats openly
and compulsively.
660
01:01:06,371 --> 01:01:08,790
She claims he's
paranoid and jealous.
661
01:01:11,084 --> 01:01:12,836
That he flies into rages,
662
01:01:13,837 --> 01:01:17,799
bugs her room,
pulls a gun on her.
663
01:01:19,342 --> 01:01:20,969
She says he tried
to pressure her
664
01:01:21,011 --> 01:01:23,013
into getting a
backstreet abortion.
665
01:01:26,516 --> 01:01:31,062
Chaplin calls Lita a
blackmailer, a gold digger,
666
01:01:31,104 --> 01:01:32,147
a little whore.
667
01:01:36,651 --> 01:01:39,738
The papers label her
Chaplin's child bride,
668
01:01:39,779 --> 01:01:41,656
his school girl wife.
669
01:01:44,367 --> 01:01:46,870
And in a letter of support
for the genius Chaplin,
670
01:01:48,663 --> 01:01:50,832
30 European
intellectuals brand her
671
01:01:50,874 --> 01:01:54,502
an idiot woman, cow,
672
01:01:54,544 --> 01:01:57,130
slut, vermin, parasite.
673
01:02:05,805 --> 01:02:09,059
A part of the public
thought that I was wrong
674
01:02:09,100 --> 01:02:10,935
in my divorce case.
675
01:02:10,977 --> 01:02:16,024
That he was the poor little
mistreated, pathetic little man
676
01:02:16,232 --> 01:02:18,109
with so much pathos and all.
677
01:02:18,151 --> 01:02:20,820
That me and my family
were gold diggers
678
01:02:20,862 --> 01:02:23,156
and all this kind of talk.
679
01:02:23,198 --> 01:02:26,159
And that was, that
made me feel bad
680
01:02:26,201 --> 01:02:28,286
because I knew that a
portion of the public
681
01:02:28,328 --> 01:02:31,081
believed a lot because
they idolized Charlie.
682
01:02:33,083 --> 01:02:35,877
(pensive music)
683
01:02:35,919 --> 01:02:37,712
[Narrator] For many
years afterwards,
684
01:02:37,754 --> 01:02:40,382
Lita struggles with
depression and alcohol.
685
01:02:41,716 --> 01:02:44,386
(pensive music)
686
01:02:46,763 --> 01:02:49,265
She tries to set the story
straight in interviews,
687
01:02:52,268 --> 01:02:54,062
but the topic
frequently strays back
688
01:02:54,104 --> 01:02:55,897
to the matter of
Chaplin's genius.
689
01:02:59,609 --> 01:03:02,404
(thoughtful music)
690
01:03:04,864 --> 01:03:06,074
Even after her death,
691
01:03:07,701 --> 01:03:10,537
biographies of Chaplin
continue to characterize her
692
01:03:10,578 --> 01:03:13,581
as a manipulative and
seductive teenage girl.
693
01:03:17,836 --> 01:03:20,088
Chaplin, in his autobiography,
694
01:03:21,005 --> 01:03:23,800
dedicates just three
sentences to Lita.
695
01:03:26,261 --> 01:03:27,971
He never mentions her by name.
696
01:03:31,266 --> 01:03:36,271
(gentle music)
(reel whirring)
697
01:03:50,744 --> 01:03:55,790
(dramatic music)
(camera shutter clicking)
698
01:03:57,792 --> 01:04:00,462
(crowd cheering)
699
01:04:03,298 --> 01:04:05,508
[Narrator] Lita's
story is a shocking one.
700
01:04:07,969 --> 01:04:12,432
But for Chaplin it
changes nothing.
701
01:04:14,976 --> 01:04:18,146
(lively upbeat music)
702
01:04:37,665 --> 01:04:42,670
(crowd roaring)
(lively upbeat music)
703
01:04:44,547 --> 01:04:47,425
(train chugging)
704
01:04:47,467 --> 01:04:50,512
(bright music)
705
01:04:50,553 --> 01:04:52,764
Plenty has changed though.
706
01:04:54,057 --> 01:04:56,184
(bright upbeat music)
707
01:04:56,226 --> 01:05:01,147
The optimism of the Roaring
Twenties has come crashing down
708
01:05:02,649 --> 01:05:05,026
and at every stop
on Chaplin's world tour,
709
01:05:06,778 --> 01:05:09,364
he sees the ravages of
the Great Depression.
710
01:05:11,783 --> 01:05:14,828
Communists and fascists are
fighting in the streets.
711
01:05:16,412 --> 01:05:21,417
(upbeat music)
(people shouting)
712
01:05:22,001 --> 01:05:25,713
Queues outside screenings
of "City Lights,"
713
01:05:25,755 --> 01:05:27,382
are mistaken for bread lines.
714
01:05:30,760 --> 01:05:33,346
(somber music)
715
01:05:35,682 --> 01:05:38,476
(crowd shouting)
716
01:05:38,518 --> 01:05:41,563
In London with Mahatma Gandhi,
717
01:05:41,604 --> 01:05:45,191
he discusses
poverty, exploitation
718
01:05:45,233 --> 01:05:47,235
and the misuse of the machine.
719
01:05:48,278 --> 01:05:50,363
(dramatic music)
720
01:05:50,405 --> 01:05:53,283
A film is taking shape
in Chaplin's head.
721
01:05:55,910 --> 01:05:58,663
(dramatic music)
722
01:06:06,379 --> 01:06:09,674
(bright frantic music)
723
01:06:21,144 --> 01:06:24,606
(dramatic frantic music)
724
01:06:25,732 --> 01:06:28,318
(bright music)
725
01:06:34,449 --> 01:06:37,076
(gentle music)
726
01:06:45,793 --> 01:06:48,546
(dramatic music)
727
01:06:57,931 --> 01:07:01,309
(dramatic suspenseful music)
728
01:07:01,351 --> 01:07:04,479
(dark dramatic music)
729
01:07:09,859 --> 01:07:13,237
It's number one
at the British Box Office,
730
01:07:13,279 --> 01:07:15,490
a smash in The States.
731
01:07:15,531 --> 01:07:17,325
Acclaimed in the Soviet Union.
732
01:07:19,953 --> 01:07:24,707
But in one country,
the film is banned outright.
733
01:07:24,749 --> 01:07:27,085
(sirens wailing)
734
01:07:27,126 --> 01:07:28,544
(dramatic music)
735
01:07:28,586 --> 01:07:31,172
(bell ringing)
736
01:07:35,468 --> 01:07:37,553
Munich, 15 years earlier.
737
01:07:43,434 --> 01:07:46,145
A little man marches
down the street,
738
01:07:46,688 --> 01:07:49,399
swishing at the air
with some sort of cane.
739
01:07:52,735 --> 01:07:55,071
His comical appearance
attracts attention,
740
01:07:55,697 --> 01:07:59,534
particularly his conspicuous
toothbrush mustache.
741
01:08:01,869 --> 01:08:03,037
He looks very familiar.
742
01:08:05,873 --> 01:08:08,793
"Who is this funny little
fellow?" someone asks.
743
01:08:12,505 --> 01:08:14,882
He's the leader of some
fringe political group.
744
01:08:18,094 --> 01:08:20,680
(dramatic music)
745
01:08:20,722 --> 01:08:23,641
"Just think," remarks
Chaplin a few years later,
746
01:08:24,726 --> 01:08:27,186
"He's the madman,
I'm the comic."
747
01:08:28,396 --> 01:08:30,398
But it could have been
the other way around.
748
01:08:30,440 --> 01:08:33,818
(dramatic music)
749
01:08:33,860 --> 01:08:36,612
(dramatic music)
750
01:08:37,321 --> 01:08:41,242
Chaplin and Hitler are born
within four days of each other.
751
01:08:43,786 --> 01:08:46,831
They both grow up
adoring their mothers
752
01:08:46,873 --> 01:08:49,083
and resenting their
drunken fathers.
753
01:08:51,419 --> 01:08:52,920
Both have known poverty.
754
01:08:54,047 --> 01:08:55,631
One plays a tramp on screen
755
01:08:57,341 --> 01:09:00,136
while the other is homeless
on the streets of Vienna.
756
01:09:01,596 --> 01:09:04,098
(dramatic music)
757
01:09:04,140 --> 01:09:07,935
Both are driven by a passionate
intensity and ambition,
758
01:09:08,728 --> 01:09:10,271
laced with self-pity.
759
01:09:15,234 --> 01:09:20,364
Sound threatens Chaplin's art,
but is the making of Hitler.
760
01:09:20,406 --> 01:09:24,202
(Hitler speaking in
foreign language)
761
01:09:24,243 --> 01:09:26,621
[Narrator] They are
both mesmeric performers.
762
01:09:28,748 --> 01:09:30,374
They know how to command a crowd
763
01:09:30,416 --> 01:09:32,543
through exaggerated gestures
764
01:09:32,585 --> 01:09:34,629
and heightened
emotional appeals.
765
01:09:36,631 --> 01:09:40,635
Both elicit intense,
almost physical reactions
766
01:09:40,676 --> 01:09:41,803
from their audiences.
767
01:09:43,179 --> 01:09:44,514
Chaplin makes them laugh.
768
01:09:45,890 --> 01:09:48,476
Hitler drives them
into a frenzy.
769
01:09:48,518 --> 01:09:51,312
(crowd cheering)
770
01:09:53,898 --> 01:09:57,735
And then of course
there's the mustache.
771
01:09:57,777 --> 01:10:01,447
(suspenseful music)
772
01:10:01,489 --> 01:10:03,866
But when Chaplin and
Hitler look at each other,
773
01:10:05,201 --> 01:10:06,285
what do they see?
774
01:10:08,204 --> 01:10:09,831
The Nazis hate Chaplin.
775
01:10:10,706 --> 01:10:11,916
They label him a Jew
776
01:10:12,500 --> 01:10:15,503
and use him in their
antisemitic propaganda.
777
01:10:15,545 --> 01:10:19,841
(man speaking in
foreign language)
778
01:10:29,392 --> 01:10:32,103
(crowd shouting)
779
01:10:32,854 --> 01:10:36,357
[Narrator] Neither can escape
comparisons with the other.
780
01:10:38,025 --> 01:10:41,362
And so, as Hitler
celebrates his 50th birthday
781
01:10:41,404 --> 01:10:43,656
with a military
parade through Berlin,
782
01:10:45,783 --> 01:10:49,912
Chaplin is working on a
script for his latest film.
783
01:10:49,954 --> 01:10:52,081
(dramatic music)
784
01:10:52,123 --> 01:10:56,252
He begins filming the week
Britain declares war on Germany.
785
01:10:59,213 --> 01:11:02,049
In it, Chaplin collapses
the distinctions
786
01:11:02,091 --> 01:11:03,426
between himself and Hitler
787
01:11:05,553 --> 01:11:08,556
as the dictator Adenoid Hynkel.
788
01:11:08,598 --> 01:11:13,603
(dramatic music)
(crowd cheering)
789
01:11:19,942 --> 01:11:21,944
But it's also a story
of doppelgangers.
790
01:11:23,613 --> 01:11:27,158
He simultaneously plays
the Jewish barber.
791
01:11:27,200 --> 01:11:29,660
Before we take you down,
you'll finish this. Here!
792
01:11:30,870 --> 01:11:31,913
(dramatic music)
(hand slapping)
793
01:11:31,954 --> 01:11:33,080
Come on. Paint that.
794
01:11:33,122 --> 01:11:34,040
(paint splashing)
795
01:11:34,081 --> 01:11:35,208
Why you!
796
01:11:35,249 --> 01:11:36,417
(blows thudding)
797
01:11:36,459 --> 01:11:38,044
- Ow!
- Hey, come here!
798
01:11:38,085 --> 01:11:40,504
Chaplin, who wasn't Jewish,
799
01:11:40,546 --> 01:11:44,592
has finally aligned the
Tramp with one identity.
800
01:11:44,634 --> 01:11:47,762
(soldiers shouting)
801
01:11:47,803 --> 01:11:52,099
A persecuted minority
facing extermination.
802
01:11:52,141 --> 01:11:54,810
(ominous music)
803
01:11:58,648 --> 01:12:00,608
(quiet tense music)
804
01:12:12,119 --> 01:12:14,914
(crowd cheering)
805
01:12:16,332 --> 01:12:19,126
(sinister music)
806
01:12:46,529 --> 01:12:49,156
(somber music)
807
01:12:50,324 --> 01:12:51,909
[Narrator] At the film's end,
808
01:12:52,868 --> 01:12:55,663
the Tramp is mistaken
for the dictator
809
01:13:00,251 --> 01:13:03,254
and forced to address the world.
810
01:13:03,296 --> 01:13:05,881
(somber music)
811
01:13:07,967 --> 01:13:09,677
When the greatest
comedy character
812
01:13:09,719 --> 01:13:11,971
of all time finally speaks,
813
01:13:13,973 --> 01:13:15,349
it's not to tell a joke.
814
01:13:18,352 --> 01:13:21,981
I'm sorry, but I don't
want to be an emperor.
815
01:13:22,023 --> 01:13:23,316
That's not my business.
816
01:13:24,275 --> 01:13:26,777
I don't want to rule
or conquer anyone.
817
01:13:26,819 --> 01:13:28,696
I should like to help
everyone, if possible.
818
01:13:28,738 --> 01:13:32,199
Jew, Gentile, black men, white,
819
01:13:32,241 --> 01:13:33,784
we all want to help one another.
820
01:13:33,826 --> 01:13:35,786
Human beings are like that.
821
01:13:35,828 --> 01:13:37,163
We want to live
by each other's happiness,
822
01:13:37,204 --> 01:13:39,040
not by each other's misery.
823
01:13:39,081 --> 01:13:41,542
We don't want to hate
and despise one another.
824
01:13:41,584 --> 01:13:43,044
In this world
there's room for everyone
825
01:13:43,085 --> 01:13:46,839
and the good earth is rich
and can provide for everyone.
826
01:13:46,881 --> 01:13:49,967
The way of life can be
free and beautiful,
827
01:13:50,009 --> 01:13:52,053
but we have lost the way.
828
01:13:52,094 --> 01:13:54,722
Greed has poisoned men's souls,
829
01:13:54,764 --> 01:13:57,058
has barricaded the
world with hate,
830
01:13:57,099 --> 01:14:00,102
has goose-stepped us into
misery and bloodshed.
831
01:14:00,144 --> 01:14:03,522
We have developed speed,
but we have shut ourselves in.
832
01:14:03,564 --> 01:14:06,525
Machinery that gives
abundance has left us in want.
833
01:14:06,567 --> 01:14:08,277
Our knowledge has
made us cynical,
834
01:14:08,319 --> 01:14:10,613
our cleverness hard and unkind.
835
01:14:10,654 --> 01:14:13,074
We think too much
and feel too little.
836
01:14:14,367 --> 01:14:15,910
You, the people have the power
837
01:14:15,951 --> 01:14:17,912
to make this life
free and beautiful,
838
01:14:17,953 --> 01:14:20,373
to make this life
a wonderful adventure.
839
01:14:20,414 --> 01:14:23,626
Then in the name of democracy,
let us use that power.
840
01:14:23,667 --> 01:14:25,086
Let us all unite!
841
01:14:25,127 --> 01:14:28,798
Let us fight for a new
world, a decent world,
842
01:14:28,839 --> 01:14:30,466
that will give men
a chance to work,
843
01:14:30,508 --> 01:14:33,594
that will give you the future
and old age a security.
844
01:14:33,636 --> 01:14:36,680
By the promise of these things,
brutes have risen to power.
845
01:14:36,722 --> 01:14:39,433
But they lie. They do
not fulfill that promise.
846
01:14:39,475 --> 01:14:40,935
They never will!
847
01:14:40,976 --> 01:14:44,438
Dictators free themselves,
but they enslave the people.
848
01:14:44,480 --> 01:14:47,566
Now let us fight
to fulfill that promise.
849
01:14:47,608 --> 01:14:50,027
Let us fight to free the world,
850
01:14:50,069 --> 01:14:52,113
to do away with
national barriers,
851
01:14:52,154 --> 01:14:55,783
to do away with greed,
with hate and intolerance.
852
01:14:55,825 --> 01:14:58,119
Let us fight for
a world of reason,
853
01:14:58,160 --> 01:15:00,663
a world where science
and progress will lead
854
01:15:00,704 --> 01:15:02,748
to all men's happiness.
855
01:15:02,790 --> 01:15:07,336
Soldiers, in the name of
democracy, let us all unite!
856
01:15:07,378 --> 01:15:10,131
(crowd cheering)
857
01:15:14,385 --> 01:15:17,138
(dramatic music)
858
01:15:21,642 --> 01:15:25,146
[Narrator] Chaplin knows
the Tramp can't survive this.
859
01:15:28,858 --> 01:15:30,651
By breaking his silence,
860
01:15:32,403 --> 01:15:34,780
he's putting his
creation on the alter.
861
01:15:40,077 --> 01:15:43,330
But after a quarter of a
century in the Tramp costume,
862
01:15:46,625 --> 01:15:48,002
can Chaplin be sure
863
01:15:49,837 --> 01:15:51,672
that he will re-emerge whole?
864
01:15:56,051 --> 01:15:58,053
Can there be one
865
01:15:59,472 --> 01:16:00,931
without the other?
866
01:16:00,973 --> 01:16:03,601
(gentle music)
867
01:16:17,406 --> 01:16:20,034
(wind howling)
868
01:16:21,994 --> 01:16:23,662
It's 1947.
869
01:16:23,704 --> 01:16:26,499
(camera flashes popping)
870
01:16:26,540 --> 01:16:28,709
Charlie Chaplin is
holding a press conference
871
01:16:28,751 --> 01:16:30,503
at the Gotham Hotel in New York.
872
01:16:34,048 --> 01:16:36,383
He's about to release
his new motion picture.
873
01:16:38,219 --> 01:16:40,763
His first without the Tramp.
874
01:16:43,432 --> 01:16:48,437
But as he knows, no one's
here to talk about the film.
875
01:16:49,396 --> 01:16:50,856
Chaplin.
876
01:16:50,898 --> 01:16:51,899
(audience applauding)
877
01:16:55,694 --> 01:17:00,658
(camera bulbs popping)
(audience applauding)
878
01:17:11,377 --> 01:17:14,421
(audience laughing)
879
01:17:27,476 --> 01:17:28,310
(camera flash popping)
880
01:17:29,728 --> 01:17:32,815
[Narrator] So, how
did we get here?
881
01:17:33,899 --> 01:17:37,111
(crowd cheering)
882
01:17:37,152 --> 01:17:40,155
"The Great Dictator" has
been an enormous success
883
01:17:41,490 --> 01:17:44,326
and its closing speech
has made such a splash
884
01:17:44,827 --> 01:17:47,288
that Chaplin is
invited to repeat it
885
01:17:48,539 --> 01:17:52,876
at the inauguration of
President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
886
01:17:52,918 --> 01:17:54,420
[Charlie] You, the
people, have the power
887
01:17:54,461 --> 01:17:56,130
to make this life
free and beautiful,
888
01:17:56,171 --> 01:17:58,841
to make this life a
wonderful adventure
889
01:17:59,508 --> 01:18:03,554
that in the name of democracy,
let us use that power.
890
01:18:03,596 --> 01:18:05,014
Let us all unite!
891
01:18:05,055 --> 01:18:07,766
At a fundraiser for
the Russian war relief,
892
01:18:07,808 --> 01:18:10,436
he's invited to speak
for four minutes.
893
01:18:10,477 --> 01:18:11,937
[Charlie] We must have a unity.
894
01:18:11,979 --> 01:18:13,188
[Narrator] He speaks for 40.
895
01:18:13,230 --> 01:18:16,025
[Charlie] And only by
the strength of unity
896
01:18:16,066 --> 01:18:17,818
can we win this war.
897
01:18:17,860 --> 01:18:20,279
[Narrator] He gets carried
away, goes off script.
898
01:18:20,321 --> 01:18:22,906
[Charlie] I certainly
think if that's communism,
899
01:18:22,948 --> 01:18:24,491
there's a lot of people
in the United States
900
01:18:24,533 --> 01:18:25,576
that'll vote for it.
901
01:18:28,662 --> 01:18:31,624
[Narrator] Having waited
so long to break his silence,
902
01:18:33,042 --> 01:18:34,793
Chaplin can't stop talking.
903
01:18:35,836 --> 01:18:38,047
[Charlie] I just made
a speech in Chicago
904
01:18:38,088 --> 01:18:41,550
and I happened to say that
while people are anticommunist,
905
01:18:41,592 --> 01:18:43,761
I am going to be communistic.
906
01:18:43,802 --> 01:18:45,429
(audience applauding)
907
01:18:45,471 --> 01:18:46,930
We must have the full strength
908
01:18:46,972 --> 01:18:49,350
from the capitalist
to the communist,
909
01:18:49,391 --> 01:18:52,019
in order that we
shall achieve victory.
910
01:18:52,061 --> 01:18:55,773
(audience applauding)
911
01:18:55,814 --> 01:18:59,735
[Narrator] And people
are starting to listen.
912
01:19:00,903 --> 01:19:03,906
(suspenseful music)
913
01:19:05,991 --> 01:19:08,369
Under the orders of its
notorious director,
914
01:19:08,410 --> 01:19:10,663
J. Edgar Hoover,
915
01:19:10,704 --> 01:19:14,500
the FBI is engaged in
wide ranging investigation
916
01:19:14,541 --> 01:19:16,543
into Chaplin's possible ties
917
01:19:17,711 --> 01:19:20,130
to the international
communist movement.
918
01:19:21,006 --> 01:19:23,300
(suspenseful music)
919
01:19:23,342 --> 01:19:25,761
The Red Scare is underway,
920
01:19:25,803 --> 01:19:26,887
(dramatic music)
921
01:19:26,929 --> 01:19:28,806
from Capitol hill to Hollywood.
922
01:19:30,599 --> 01:19:33,811
Communism in
reality is akin to disease
923
01:19:33,852 --> 01:19:35,688
that's spread like an epidemic.
924
01:19:35,729 --> 01:19:37,314
And like an epidemic,
925
01:19:37,356 --> 01:19:40,901
a quarantine is necessary to
keep from infecting the state.
926
01:19:41,985 --> 01:19:44,279
[Narrator]
Actors, writers and filmmakers
927
01:19:44,321 --> 01:19:45,614
are dragged
in front of the House
928
01:19:45,656 --> 01:19:47,991
un-American
Activities Committee.
929
01:19:48,033 --> 01:19:49,493
[Representative] Are you or
have you ever been a member
930
01:19:49,535 --> 01:19:51,036
of the communist party?
931
01:19:51,078 --> 01:19:53,497
[Representative] What is your
opinion regarding communism?
932
01:19:53,539 --> 01:19:56,709
I feel that they really
ought to be smoked out.
933
01:19:56,750 --> 01:19:57,710
If I had my way about it,
934
01:19:57,751 --> 01:19:59,670
they'd all be sent
back to Russia
935
01:19:59,712 --> 01:20:01,964
or some other unpleasant place.
936
01:20:02,005 --> 01:20:04,550
(audience applauding)
937
01:20:04,591 --> 01:20:07,928
[Narrator] 10 Are imprisoned
for refusing to testify.
938
01:20:11,974 --> 01:20:13,684
Hundreds are blacklisted.
939
01:20:15,644 --> 01:20:19,982
Taking down a big star would
be a major coup for Hoover
940
01:20:21,775 --> 01:20:25,946
and they don't come much
bigger than Charlie Chaplin.
941
01:20:25,988 --> 01:20:28,365
[Representative] Are you a
member of the communist party?
942
01:20:28,407 --> 01:20:30,033
(gavel thudding)
(camera flash popping)
943
01:21:01,231 --> 01:21:04,193
[Narrator] But this response
doesn't satisfy Hoover.
944
01:21:06,153 --> 01:21:08,071
Through the FBI's lens,
945
01:21:08,113 --> 01:21:10,491
Chaplin becomes not
only a communist,
946
01:21:11,825 --> 01:21:13,452
but a foreign subversive,
947
01:21:14,661 --> 01:21:17,623
a homosexual, a Jew.
948
01:21:20,793 --> 01:21:23,295
It tells us a lot
more about the FBI
949
01:21:23,337 --> 01:21:25,255
than it does about Chaplin.
950
01:21:25,297 --> 01:21:28,342
(suspenseful music)
951
01:21:29,301 --> 01:21:30,677
They're looking for dirt.
952
01:21:32,971 --> 01:21:37,392
And in this department,
they have a powerful ally.
953
01:21:40,854 --> 01:21:42,189
Hello everybody.
954
01:21:42,231 --> 01:21:44,107
This is Hedda Hopper reporting
to you from Hollywood.
955
01:21:44,149 --> 01:21:46,652
That fabulous place where
everyone wants to live,
956
01:21:46,693 --> 01:21:48,320
but seldom does.
957
01:21:48,362 --> 01:21:50,906
[Narrator] "Hedda Hopper's
Hollywood Gossip Column"
958
01:21:50,948 --> 01:21:54,034
is read by 32 million Americans.
959
01:21:54,076 --> 01:21:56,078
Work in Culver City and play.
960
01:21:56,119 --> 01:21:57,162
[Narrator] She has the power
961
01:21:57,204 --> 01:21:58,664
to make or break careers.
962
01:21:58,705 --> 01:22:00,916
Palm Springs, the other
day I decided to get away-
963
01:22:00,958 --> 01:22:02,417
[Narrator] and she
hates communists.
964
01:22:02,459 --> 01:22:04,670
Saw a little bit of sunshine.
965
01:22:04,711 --> 01:22:06,505
[Narrator] She tells Hoover,
966
01:22:06,547 --> 01:22:09,758
I'd like to run every one of
those rats out of the country
967
01:22:11,510 --> 01:22:14,721
and start with Charlie Chaplin.
968
01:22:16,557 --> 01:22:19,142
(bright music)
969
01:22:19,184 --> 01:22:22,896
The file shows that Hopper
and Hoover's relationship
970
01:22:22,938 --> 01:22:24,773
is more or less circular.
971
01:22:26,942 --> 01:22:29,778
Hopper fills her columns
with gossip about Chaplin
972
01:22:31,071 --> 01:22:33,490
that's been fed
to her by the FBI.
973
01:22:33,532 --> 01:22:35,033
[Hedda] Charlie Chaplin dividing
974
01:22:35,075 --> 01:22:36,535
his dancing attention night
before last at the Persian Room-
975
01:22:36,577 --> 01:22:38,912
[Narrator] The FBI
then quotes those columns
976
01:22:39,746 --> 01:22:41,248
and its file against Chaplin.
977
01:22:41,290 --> 01:22:42,583
[Hedda] In the minds of...
978
01:22:42,624 --> 01:22:45,586
Charlie Chaplin is called
the debutante's delight.
979
01:22:45,627 --> 01:22:47,921
[Narrator] The
machine feeds itself.
980
01:22:47,963 --> 01:22:51,008
[Hedda] Regarding
communists in Hollywood.
981
01:22:51,049 --> 01:22:52,926
I found much (murmuring).
982
01:22:52,968 --> 01:22:56,597
[Narrator] The evidence,
however, remains circumstantial.
983
01:22:59,808 --> 01:23:00,893
Until one day-
984
01:23:00,934 --> 01:23:02,394
You know, there's one
man in particular-
985
01:23:02,436 --> 01:23:07,524
[Narrator] Hopper finds a
young woman called Joan Barry.
986
01:23:07,566 --> 01:23:10,277
(mournful music)
987
01:23:14,239 --> 01:23:17,826
In 1941, Joan
arrived in Hollywood
988
01:23:17,868 --> 01:23:20,120
as an aspiring young actress.
989
01:23:25,792 --> 01:23:27,961
Charlie Chaplin
took an interest in her.
990
01:23:30,088 --> 01:23:32,007
He said he could
make her a star.
991
01:23:36,970 --> 01:23:41,141
Now she's pregnant
and she needs help.
992
01:23:46,021 --> 01:23:49,816
Hopper and Hoover
sense an opportunity.
993
01:23:49,858 --> 01:23:52,653
(dramatic music)
994
01:23:54,446 --> 01:23:57,741
Chaplin is taken to court to
prove that he's the father.
995
01:24:00,369 --> 01:24:03,455
And Hopper ensures the
whole case plays out,
996
01:24:03,497 --> 01:24:07,709
week-by-week in
the tabloid press.
997
01:24:07,751 --> 01:24:10,504
(dramatic music)
998
01:24:11,380 --> 01:24:13,840
The prosecutor
tears into Chaplin.
999
01:24:16,009 --> 01:24:18,220
He reveals that
Chaplin forced Barry
1000
01:24:18,261 --> 01:24:20,347
to have two backstreet abortions
1001
01:24:21,765 --> 01:24:25,185
and accuses him of decades
of predatory behavior.
1002
01:24:29,856 --> 01:24:32,067
Three grueling trials later,
1003
01:24:34,486 --> 01:24:37,197
a blood test suggests he
may not be the father.
1004
01:24:38,240 --> 01:24:40,325
(somber music)
1005
01:24:40,367 --> 01:24:41,410
But it's too late.
1006
01:24:43,578 --> 01:24:46,373
The tide has finally turned.
1007
01:24:46,415 --> 01:24:49,209
(mournful music)
1008
01:24:50,919 --> 01:24:54,756
It's a great victory for the
right wing press and the FBI.
1009
01:24:57,759 --> 01:25:00,762
(people chattering)
1010
01:25:03,765 --> 01:25:05,517
But what about Joan Barry?
1011
01:25:09,396 --> 01:25:10,731
Where does this leave her?
1012
01:25:12,566 --> 01:25:15,193
(somber music)
1013
01:25:16,361 --> 01:25:17,571
A few years later,
1014
01:25:18,739 --> 01:25:21,033
she is committed to a
psychiatric hospital.
1015
01:25:25,162 --> 01:25:26,955
There's no further trace of her.
1016
01:25:31,543 --> 01:25:36,965
And now it's open season
on Charlie Chaplin.
1017
01:25:37,007 --> 01:25:40,052
(presses whirring)
1018
01:26:24,054 --> 01:26:26,098
(people chattering)
1019
01:27:07,889 --> 01:27:10,517
(somber music)
1020
01:27:12,727 --> 01:27:16,189
(camera flashes popping)
1021
01:27:18,650 --> 01:27:22,279
Now that it's ended
1022
01:27:22,320 --> 01:27:26,825
The romance is over
1023
01:27:26,867 --> 01:27:30,162
The passion gone
1024
01:27:30,203 --> 01:27:35,208
Like the wind and the rain
1025
01:27:35,792 --> 01:27:38,628
Gone are the joys
1026
01:27:38,670 --> 01:27:42,966
Of our madness
1027
01:27:43,008 --> 01:27:46,219
When I dream of you
1028
01:27:46,803 --> 01:27:49,556
[Narrator] In the midst
of all these scandals,
1029
01:27:51,266 --> 01:27:52,350
he's married again.
1030
01:27:55,937 --> 01:27:57,397
Oona O'Neill.
1031
01:27:57,439 --> 01:28:02,402
(gentle music)
(reel whirring)
1032
01:28:06,031 --> 01:28:08,742
[Geraldine] My mother was
so young when she met him.
1033
01:28:11,494 --> 01:28:16,499
She was 17 and he
was 52, I think.
1034
01:28:19,794 --> 01:28:21,046
They fell in love
1035
01:28:21,087 --> 01:28:23,757
and then as soon as she
turned 18, they married.
1036
01:28:26,885 --> 01:28:29,721
Everyone thought
that she was just a bimbo
1037
01:28:29,763 --> 01:28:31,598
and that she'd be gone soon.
1038
01:28:33,892 --> 01:28:38,939
(people chattering)
(birds chirping)
1039
01:28:41,650 --> 01:28:43,235
They were mad about each other.
1040
01:28:47,530 --> 01:28:50,992
[Eugene] The only opinion he
listened to was my mother's.
1041
01:28:51,034 --> 01:28:55,747
Just couldn't do nothing
without her approval.
1042
01:28:55,789 --> 01:28:58,416
(gentle music)
1043
01:29:01,503 --> 01:29:02,754
She was the sunshine.
1044
01:29:04,839 --> 01:29:06,675
She gave warmth.
1045
01:29:06,716 --> 01:29:11,763
(gentle music)
(birds chirping)
1046
01:29:12,764 --> 01:29:15,642
(leaves rustling)
1047
01:29:17,894 --> 01:29:20,897
(audience cheering)
1048
01:29:25,902 --> 01:29:28,822
[Narrator] But his
next film, "Limelight,"
1049
01:29:30,031 --> 01:29:32,450
betrays an underlying anxiety.
1050
01:29:45,255 --> 01:29:47,966
(pensive music)
1051
01:29:49,259 --> 01:29:52,887
In it, he's an aging comedian.
1052
01:29:56,016 --> 01:29:59,185
Once renowned for playing
a beloved Tramp character
1053
01:30:01,479 --> 01:30:02,355
whose public
1054
01:30:06,026 --> 01:30:07,527
has now abandoned him.
1055
01:30:08,737 --> 01:30:11,406
(pensive music)
1056
01:30:24,002 --> 01:30:27,047
(ship horn blaring)
1057
01:30:32,177 --> 01:30:35,055
(people chattering)
1058
01:30:35,096 --> 01:30:38,725
On September 17th, 1952,
1059
01:30:39,851 --> 01:30:42,520
the Chaplin family
depart the United States
1060
01:30:42,562 --> 01:30:44,564
to attend the European premiere.
1061
01:30:45,815 --> 01:30:48,693
(birds squawking)
1062
01:30:52,614 --> 01:30:55,367
Two days into the voyage-
1063
01:30:55,408 --> 01:30:57,535
(dramatic music)
1064
01:30:57,577 --> 01:30:58,912
[Reporter] The story which
makes the most sensational news
1065
01:30:58,953 --> 01:31:01,122
is the departure of
Charlie Chaplin for London.
1066
01:31:01,164 --> 01:31:03,249
Immigration officials
are prompt to suggest
1067
01:31:03,291 --> 01:31:05,752
that the great comic may have
difficulty getting back here
1068
01:31:05,794 --> 01:31:07,003
if he wants to come.
1069
01:31:07,045 --> 01:31:08,171
[Reporter] The United
States Attorney General,
1070
01:31:08,213 --> 01:31:09,923
James P. McGranery,
1071
01:31:09,964 --> 01:31:10,799
heard that Chaplin had been--
1072
01:31:10,840 --> 01:31:12,675
Charged with making statements
1073
01:31:12,717 --> 01:31:17,222
that would indicate a
leering, sneering attitude
1074
01:31:18,973 --> 01:31:22,143
toward a country whose
gracious hospitality
1075
01:31:23,311 --> 01:31:24,521
has enriched him.
1076
01:31:24,562 --> 01:31:25,897
[Reporter] And then at
the Justice Department
1077
01:31:25,939 --> 01:31:28,441
decided that Chaplin could
not re-enter the country,
1078
01:31:28,483 --> 01:31:32,362
unless he could prove
quote "His moral worth."
1079
01:31:32,404 --> 01:31:35,156
(dramatic music)
1080
01:31:39,494 --> 01:31:41,579
(bright music)
1081
01:31:41,621 --> 01:31:44,457
(birds squawking)
1082
01:31:50,672 --> 01:31:53,133
[Narrator] This has
been years in the making.
1083
01:31:56,511 --> 01:31:58,221
His enemies have
tried everything.
1084
01:32:02,142 --> 01:32:03,351
But in the end,
1085
01:32:06,020 --> 01:32:07,605
they just wait until he leaves.
1086
01:32:08,940 --> 01:32:13,987
(dramatic music)
(train whistling)
1087
01:32:24,873 --> 01:32:26,916
Chaplin sells his
Hollywood studio
1088
01:32:28,126 --> 01:32:30,170
and retreats to Switzerland.
1089
01:32:30,211 --> 01:32:33,006
(dramatic music)
1090
01:32:41,222 --> 01:32:43,850
He moves the family
into a grand estate
1091
01:32:46,060 --> 01:32:47,979
ringed by the Alps.
1092
01:32:48,021 --> 01:32:50,773
(mournful music)
1093
01:32:56,738 --> 01:32:59,782
(people chattering)
1094
01:33:01,242 --> 01:33:04,078
[Geraldine] The sentence
I remember most, him saying.
1095
01:33:09,417 --> 01:33:12,045
"I'm not bitter about America.
1096
01:33:13,421 --> 01:33:15,882
I'm not bitter about America.
1097
01:33:17,467 --> 01:33:21,554
Bitter about America?
I'm not bitter about America."
1098
01:33:23,056 --> 01:33:27,727
He said it so many times
one begins to wonder.
1099
01:33:27,769 --> 01:33:30,396
(somber music)
1100
01:33:37,779 --> 01:33:42,742
[Narrator] And Chaplin is
forced to adapt to his new role
1101
01:33:44,702 --> 01:33:45,745
as a father.
1102
01:33:47,789 --> 01:33:50,500
(film whirring)
1103
01:33:53,253 --> 01:33:55,421
[Geraldine] My father
wasn't Charlie Chaplin.
1104
01:34:00,051 --> 01:34:01,678
I knew they were
the same person,
1105
01:34:02,887 --> 01:34:04,514
but they looked nothing alike.
1106
01:34:08,184 --> 01:34:10,186
Except when he had an audience,
1107
01:34:10,228 --> 01:34:12,105
then he would become
Charlie Chaplin,
1108
01:34:13,982 --> 01:34:16,401
that other man, the man
that was on the screen.
1109
01:34:19,487 --> 01:34:21,656
(gentle music)
1110
01:34:21,698 --> 01:34:23,283
[Narrator] This is the
Charlie Chaplin we find
1111
01:34:23,324 --> 01:34:24,951
in the family's home movies.
1112
01:34:32,000 --> 01:34:33,751
A cheerful clown who appears
1113
01:34:33,793 --> 01:34:35,670
the moment the camera
starts rolling.
1114
01:34:37,422 --> 01:34:40,008
(gentle music)
1115
01:34:50,268 --> 01:34:52,020
[Jane] My one wish growing up
1116
01:34:53,438 --> 01:34:58,401
was to have one conversation
alone with my father.
1117
01:34:59,986 --> 01:35:02,488
(gentle music)
1118
01:35:03,990 --> 01:35:05,325
Just the two of us.
1119
01:35:10,246 --> 01:35:13,791
He was inaccessible
in so many ways.
1120
01:35:16,461 --> 01:35:18,004
Your father's working.
1121
01:35:19,172 --> 01:35:20,173
Don't disturb him.
1122
01:35:23,259 --> 01:35:25,178
He'll lose his inspiration.
1123
01:35:29,098 --> 01:35:33,895
Our world revolved around
my father's well being.
1124
01:35:33,936 --> 01:35:36,522
(gentle music)
1125
01:35:41,486 --> 01:35:45,698
[Michael] I was kind of
frightened of my father.
1126
01:35:52,246 --> 01:35:54,374
He was so powerful
in a certain way.
1127
01:35:59,003 --> 01:36:02,215
You couldn't argue with him
because he couldn't be wrong.
1128
01:36:06,928 --> 01:36:09,806
Everyone who gets
too close to him,
1129
01:36:09,847 --> 01:36:11,391
he'll end up suffocating.
1130
01:36:14,769 --> 01:36:15,895
He couldn't help it.
1131
01:36:20,191 --> 01:36:22,193
That's why I left home
at an early age.
1132
01:36:23,986 --> 01:36:27,115
And I think my sisters did too,
you know.
1133
01:36:28,032 --> 01:36:30,743
(pensive music)
1134
01:36:44,298 --> 01:36:46,759
[Narrator] Chaplin
makes two films in exile.
1135
01:36:51,806 --> 01:36:54,434
But neither is the comeback
he hopes for.
1136
01:36:55,643 --> 01:36:58,271
(somber music)
1137
01:37:03,109 --> 01:37:04,527
[Geraldine] He said to me,
1138
01:37:07,363 --> 01:37:08,781
"I was very famous.
1139
01:37:10,324 --> 01:37:11,868
I used to be very famous."
1140
01:37:16,164 --> 01:37:17,373
It did matter to him.
1141
01:37:19,542 --> 01:37:21,043
Of course it mattered to him.
1142
01:37:24,297 --> 01:37:25,757
He needed an audience.
1143
01:37:27,133 --> 01:37:28,134
He was a comedian.
1144
01:37:30,762 --> 01:37:32,346
You need an audience.
1145
01:37:32,388 --> 01:37:34,974
(somber music)
1146
01:37:37,185 --> 01:37:38,644
[Charlie] Correction.
1147
01:37:38,686 --> 01:37:40,772
It strikes me that happiness
is becoming more difficult.
1148
01:37:40,813 --> 01:37:42,690
New paragraph.
1149
01:37:42,732 --> 01:37:44,108
To write a book.
1150
01:37:44,150 --> 01:37:46,319
A great controversy was
going on in the press, comma...
1151
01:37:46,360 --> 01:37:49,906
In this day and age we...
...comma.
1152
01:37:49,947 --> 01:37:52,200
Paragraph...of unconsciousness.
1153
01:37:54,035 --> 01:37:56,662
(gentle music)
1154
01:38:08,299 --> 01:38:10,885
[Narrator] In the
pages of his memoir,
1155
01:38:10,927 --> 01:38:12,887
Chaplin revisits, once more,
1156
01:38:12,929 --> 01:38:14,972
the streets he
wandered as a boy.
1157
01:38:17,099 --> 01:38:19,685
(gentle music)
1158
01:38:23,648 --> 01:38:25,983
The streets he
haunts as an old man.
1159
01:38:27,235 --> 01:38:29,946
(pensive music)
1160
01:38:38,913 --> 01:38:41,374
The streets he returned to
time and again,
1161
01:38:43,417 --> 01:38:44,418
as the Tramp.
1162
01:38:54,971 --> 01:38:56,430
His old Lambeth neighborhood,
1163
01:38:59,642 --> 01:39:01,894
he rebuilt it in his
Hollywood studio.
1164
01:39:02,937 --> 01:39:05,648
(pensive music)
1165
01:39:07,066 --> 01:39:09,902
(birds squawking)
1166
01:39:15,449 --> 01:39:17,034
The gates of Killington Park,
1167
01:39:19,328 --> 01:39:22,081
here Chaplin met for a
date with his first love.
1168
01:39:25,293 --> 01:39:27,712
It's where the Tramp
meets the flower girl.
1169
01:39:29,171 --> 01:39:31,757
(gentle music)
1170
01:39:33,342 --> 01:39:36,095
And the attic
of No. 3 Pownall Terrace.
1171
01:39:39,974 --> 01:39:43,102
Where young Charlie watched
his mother's health ebb away.
1172
01:39:45,479 --> 01:39:48,149
(pensive music)
1173
01:39:51,402 --> 01:39:54,155
It's the attic
room in "The Kid."
1174
01:39:55,364 --> 01:39:58,117
(dramatic music)
1175
01:40:03,873 --> 01:40:05,708
(crowd cheering)
1176
01:40:05,750 --> 01:40:08,461
And if Chaplin isn't
finished with the past,
1177
01:40:10,796 --> 01:40:14,258
the past certainly
isn't finished with him.
1178
01:40:14,675 --> 01:40:19,972
(upbeat music)
(people faintly singing)
1179
01:40:25,353 --> 01:40:30,316
When Hollywood stages a grand
reconciliation at the Oscars,
1180
01:40:32,109 --> 01:40:35,154
it seems like a bid to
turn back the clock.
1181
01:40:36,989 --> 01:40:41,994
(crowd cheering)
(people singing faintly)
1182
01:40:45,873 --> 01:40:48,960
(gentle music)
1183
01:40:49,001 --> 01:40:51,379
When he's knighted in 1975,
1184
01:40:53,214 --> 01:40:56,509
people are still searching for
traces of the little fellow.
1185
01:40:57,927 --> 01:40:59,303
[Reporter] Sir Charles
left the palace,
1186
01:40:59,345 --> 01:41:01,013
not with his famous cane,
1187
01:41:01,055 --> 01:41:03,015
but now leaning on
a thick walking stick.
1188
01:41:03,057 --> 01:41:05,935
He's 86 next month and
he sat in a wheelchair
1189
01:41:05,977 --> 01:41:07,269
as the queen dubbed him.
1190
01:41:07,311 --> 01:41:08,854
[Narrator] Is there anyone left
1191
01:41:09,897 --> 01:41:14,568
who can look at one
without seeing the other?
1192
01:41:14,610 --> 01:41:17,321
(gentle music)
1193
01:42:28,893 --> 01:42:31,479
(gentle music)
1194
01:42:39,945 --> 01:42:42,698
[Narrator] When you ask
for the real Charlie Chaplin,
1195
01:42:45,451 --> 01:42:46,827
a thousand voices reply.
1196
01:42:48,621 --> 01:42:49,663
[Interviewer] Take care.
1197
01:42:50,790 --> 01:42:53,542
(Effie laughing)
1198
01:42:58,089 --> 01:43:00,466
[Narrator] Some are
louder than others.
1199
01:43:08,682 --> 01:43:13,687
(camera flashes popping)
(people chattering)
1200
01:43:14,647 --> 01:43:16,107
[Narrator] Some are hidden.
1201
01:43:20,694 --> 01:43:23,447
Some struggle to be heard.
1202
01:43:27,743 --> 01:43:28,619
And others
1203
01:43:31,664 --> 01:43:32,832
remain silent.
1204
01:43:34,041 --> 01:43:37,503
(mournful music)
1205
01:43:37,545 --> 01:43:40,089
(gentle music)
1206
01:43:45,386 --> 01:43:49,348
[Geraldine] I think if anyone
could pin my father down,
1207
01:43:49,390 --> 01:43:52,309
could understand him
1208
01:43:52,351 --> 01:43:54,019
it was my mother.
1209
01:43:58,232 --> 01:44:00,025
My mother's voice doesn't exist.
1210
01:44:03,112 --> 01:44:04,363
There's nothing with her.
1211
01:44:10,494 --> 01:44:12,746
No recorded interviews.
1212
01:44:12,788 --> 01:44:15,374
(gentle music)
1213
01:44:16,667 --> 01:44:19,003
Certainly she kept
journals. She kept diaries.
1214
01:44:24,508 --> 01:44:27,219
Writing was, I think,
her way of escaping.
1215
01:44:29,889 --> 01:44:33,225
Writing furiously,
writing continuously.
1216
01:44:43,277 --> 01:44:44,486
In her last years,
1217
01:44:46,780 --> 01:44:48,782
she spent a lot of
time destroying,
1218
01:44:51,619 --> 01:44:53,245
destroying what she had written.
1219
01:44:54,955 --> 01:44:57,499
(gentle music)
1220
01:44:58,542 --> 01:45:00,002
She was probably very lonely.
1221
01:45:05,507 --> 01:45:07,009
I could imagine
it would be quite lonely
1222
01:45:07,051 --> 01:45:08,761
being the wife of
Charlie Chaplin.
1223
01:45:14,225 --> 01:45:15,267
(film crackling)
1224
01:45:20,522 --> 01:45:22,274
[Jane] That big wish that I had,
1225
01:45:23,776 --> 01:45:27,279
to have conversation
alone with my father.
1226
01:45:27,321 --> 01:45:29,949
(gentle music)
1227
01:45:30,866 --> 01:45:32,243
I forgot about it.
1228
01:45:33,494 --> 01:45:35,579
I thought, "Oh, you
know, this is ridiculous.
1229
01:45:35,621 --> 01:45:37,331
It's just never gonna happen."
1230
01:45:41,460 --> 01:45:46,465
And when I dropped it,
that's when it happened.
1231
01:45:49,677 --> 01:45:51,971
Conversation alone with my dad.
1232
01:46:02,439 --> 01:46:04,817
I had grown up with the icon.
1233
01:46:05,609 --> 01:46:07,361
(birds squawking)
1234
01:46:07,403 --> 01:46:10,656
But the man, I had no
idea who the man was.
1235
01:46:14,159 --> 01:46:18,330
He spoke about having
huge amounts of doubt.
1236
01:46:22,626 --> 01:46:26,463
He said that he had had
doubts all his life.
1237
01:46:26,505 --> 01:46:29,133
(gentle music)
1238
01:46:33,887 --> 01:46:38,142
He accomplished
his life's dream,
1239
01:46:40,144 --> 01:46:43,564
but I don't think he ever
really got over his doubts.
1240
01:46:45,316 --> 01:46:50,362
(gentle music)
(engines rumbling)
1241
01:46:53,032 --> 01:46:56,660
Does one ever really get
over where you come from?
1242
01:47:01,373 --> 01:47:03,042
I don't think it
ever leaves you.
1243
01:47:04,418 --> 01:47:07,212
(dramatic music)
1244
01:47:16,138 --> 01:47:18,849
(reel rattling)
1245
01:47:23,395 --> 01:47:26,148
(mournful music)
1246
01:47:33,405 --> 01:47:36,075
(pensive music)
1247
01:47:53,342 --> 01:47:56,095
(dramatic music)
1248
01:48:20,536 --> 01:48:21,954
(gentle music)
1249
01:48:21,995 --> 01:48:23,914
If you only shut your trap
1250
01:48:23,956 --> 01:48:25,541
I will tell you about a chap
1251
01:48:25,582 --> 01:48:28,794
That was broken up
against it and threadbare
1252
01:48:28,836 --> 01:48:30,712
He was not the
kind that shirked
1253
01:48:30,754 --> 01:48:32,506
He was looking hard for work
1254
01:48:32,548 --> 01:48:36,468
But he heard the same
old story everywhere
1255
01:48:36,510 --> 01:48:38,512
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,
keep on a-trampin'
1256
01:48:38,554 --> 01:48:39,888
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
1257
01:48:39,930 --> 01:48:43,517
Nothin' doing here for you
1258
01:48:43,559 --> 01:48:44,768
If I catch you round again
1259
01:48:44,810 --> 01:48:46,728
You will wear the
ball and chain
1260
01:48:46,770 --> 01:48:47,855
Keep on tramping
1261
01:48:47,896 --> 01:48:50,232
That's the best
thing you can do
1262
01:48:50,274 --> 01:48:51,817
He walked up and
down the street
1263
01:48:51,859 --> 01:48:53,569
Til the shoes
fell off his feet
1264
01:48:53,610 --> 01:48:57,239
In the house he spied
a lady cooking stew
1265
01:48:57,281 --> 01:48:59,074
And he said, how do you do
1266
01:48:59,116 --> 01:49:00,659
May I chop some wood for you
1267
01:49:00,701 --> 01:49:04,496
What the lady told him
made him feel so blue
1268
01:49:04,538 --> 01:49:07,166
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,
keep on a-trampin'
1269
01:49:07,207 --> 01:49:08,083
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
1270
01:49:08,125 --> 01:49:11,211
Nothin' doing here for you
1271
01:49:11,253 --> 01:49:12,838
If I catch you round again
1272
01:49:12,880 --> 01:49:14,631
You will wear the
ball and chain
1273
01:49:14,673 --> 01:49:15,757
Keep on trampin'
1274
01:49:15,799 --> 01:49:18,177
That's the best
thing you can do
1275
01:49:18,218 --> 01:49:20,012
Cross the street
the sign he read
1276
01:49:20,053 --> 01:49:21,638
Work for Jesus, so it said
1277
01:49:21,680 --> 01:49:23,515
And he said,
here is my chance
1278
01:49:23,557 --> 01:49:25,142
I'll surely try
1279
01:49:25,184 --> 01:49:26,810
And he kneeled
upon the floor
1280
01:49:26,852 --> 01:49:28,896
Til his knees
got rather sore
1281
01:49:28,937 --> 01:49:32,608
But at eating time he
heard the preacher cry
1282
01:49:32,649 --> 01:49:34,193
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,
keep on a-trampin'
1283
01:49:34,234 --> 01:49:35,986
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
1284
01:49:36,028 --> 01:49:39,198
Nothin' doing here for you
1285
01:49:39,239 --> 01:49:40,824
If I catch you round again
1286
01:49:40,866 --> 01:49:42,659
You will wear the
ball and chain
1287
01:49:42,701 --> 01:49:43,785
Keep on trampin'
1288
01:49:43,827 --> 01:49:46,121
That's the best
thing you can do
1289
01:49:46,163 --> 01:49:47,789
Down the street he met a cop
1290
01:49:47,831 --> 01:49:49,541
And the copper made him stop
1291
01:49:49,583 --> 01:49:53,128
And he asked him, when
did you blow into town
1292
01:49:53,170 --> 01:49:54,630
Come with me up to the judge
1293
01:49:54,671 --> 01:49:56,340
the judge, he said, oh fudge
1294
01:49:56,381 --> 01:50:00,385
Bums that have no money
needn't come around
1295
01:50:00,427 --> 01:50:01,970
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,
keep on a-trampin'
1296
01:50:02,012 --> 01:50:03,722
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
1297
01:50:03,764 --> 01:50:06,808
Nothin' doing here for you
1298
01:50:06,850 --> 01:50:08,519
If I catch you round again
1299
01:50:08,560 --> 01:50:10,145
You will wear the
ball and chain
1300
01:50:10,187 --> 01:50:11,271
Keep on trampin'
1301
01:50:11,313 --> 01:50:13,857
That's the best
thing you can do
1302
01:50:13,899 --> 01:50:15,484
Finally came the happy day
1303
01:50:15,526 --> 01:50:17,694
When his life did pass away
1304
01:50:17,736 --> 01:50:20,739
He was sure he'd go
to heaven when he died
1305
01:50:20,781 --> 01:50:22,866
When did he reached
the pearly gates
1306
01:50:22,908 --> 01:50:24,409
Saint Peter, mean old saint
1307
01:50:24,451 --> 01:50:28,247
Slammed the gate right in
his face and loudly cried
1308
01:50:28,288 --> 01:50:30,916
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,
keep on a-trampin'
1309
01:50:30,958 --> 01:50:31,917
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
1310
01:50:31,959 --> 01:50:34,920
Nothin' doing here for you
1311
01:50:34,962 --> 01:50:36,713
If I catch you round again
1312
01:50:36,755 --> 01:50:38,423
You will wear the
ball and chain
1313
01:50:38,465 --> 01:50:39,550
Keep on trampin'
1314
01:50:39,591 --> 01:50:42,594
That's the best
thing you can do
1315
01:50:42,636 --> 01:50:43,720
Keep on trampin'
1316
01:50:43,762 --> 01:50:47,766
That's the best
thing you can do
1317
01:50:51,478 --> 01:50:54,231
(dramatic music)
1318
01:51:02,990 --> 01:51:06,159
(dark dramatic music)
1319
01:51:46,366 --> 01:51:49,161
(dramatic music)
1320
01:51:52,497 --> 01:51:55,250
(dramatic music)
1321
01:52:04,885 --> 01:52:08,055
(dark dramatic music)
1322
01:52:30,243 --> 01:52:33,038
(dramatic music)
1323
01:52:45,842 --> 01:52:48,553
(gentle music)
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