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Charlie Chaplin . The Immigrant (1917 Restored, Silent, Short, Film Noir, Comedy)
About this film
PLOT : Charlie is an immigrant who endures a challenging voyage and gets into trouble as soon as he arrives in America. --IMDb TRIVIA : 01) Charles Chaplin edited the film for four days and nights without sleep in order to release it on schedule. 02) Eleventh of twelve films Chaplin made for Mutual Film. After this series, he would go on to establish his own studio. 03) The Immigrant (1917) has been restored by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and Lobster Films, from a safety full aperture duplicate negative in the Blackhawk Collection (thanks to the Museum of Modern Art), preserved at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Intertitles have been reconstructed according to the original Mutual Film intertitles from the same age. 04) Restoration work was carried out at L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory in 2012. Scanned at Technicolor Digital Services, Hollywood, in 2011. 05) The scene in which Charles Chaplin's character kicks an immigration officer was cited later as "evidence" of his anti-Americanism when he was forced to leave the United States during the McCarthy "Red Scare" period in the 1950s. 06) Chaplin had become such a perfectionist by this time that he shot 90,000 fee…
Directors & creators
Producers: Henry P. Caulfield, producer (uncredited) - Charles Chaplin, producer (uncredited), John Jasper producer (uncredited) / Director: Charles Chaplin / Writers: Charles Chaplin-Vincent Bryan (uncredited)-Maverick Terrell (uncredited) / Starring: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell
Subjects
1917; Comedy; Slapstick Comedy; Going to America; Crossing the Atlantic; Ship; Steamship; Sea-sick; Statue of Liberty; Immigrant; Immigration officer; NewYork City; Hungry; Poverty; Pair of dice; Betting on dice; Gambling; Painter; Threatened with a gun; Penniless; Coin; Finding a coin; Finding money on street; Fake money; Counterfeit money;Card game; Hole in pocket; Violin; Restaurant; Infatuation; Dining; Eating w a knife; Eating beans with a knife; Waiter; Rude waiter; Waiter Tip; Piano; Paying bill; Marriage proposal; Marriage office; Mother; Thief; Theft; National Film Registry; AKA 01) Broke 02) Hello U.S.A. 03) The New World; Filming Location; Chaplin Studios; 1416 N. La Brea Ave; Hollywood; LA; California; USA
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