Day 24 – Favorite scene – 30 Day Charlie Chaplin Challenge

Okay, I have a whole bunch that I love (does every scene in his movies count?), but narrowing it down to just two.

The first one I have mentioned before (Day 6 – Favorite First National): From “The Kid” (100 years old this year! Huzzah! Soundtrack that Chaplin wrote is 50 years old this year! Huzzah again!). Below is from the official Chaplin YouTube channel (I was so happy when they uploaded the whole scene! YAY!)

A favorite vlogger of mine, Jordan from the YouTube channel “Daze with Jordan the Lion“, does Hollywood and musician locations, usually in the Los Angeles area. About 4 years ago he visited a couple location from The Kid: one (at was the alley where we first see Charlie walking towards the camera) is at about 7:56. The other alley (starting at 14:28) from the ending of the above scene.

Some other Chaplin related videos that Jordan did was out front of the old Chaplin Studios, visiting Jackie Coogan’s grave , and the location of Mack Sennett Keystone Studio.

And a clip of an interview where Coogan talks about how Chaplin directed him fir the scene:

And here is the second. And as time has gone on, it’s still rings true: The speech at thee end of The Great Dictator.

And a couple years ago, the Fine Brothers had college kids react to the speech:

If I spend anymore time on this, I’ll be adding several more, haha.

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