Sometimes, depending on my mood, it is City Lights, or Shoulder Arms, or The Great Dictator, or if I was in a noir frame of mind, Monsieur Verdoux. Or really any one of them. Over the years some people have assumed my favorite was Limelight since I picked Calvero as my username. Nope. Though I do truly love and adore it.
In my MT post, I mentioned the feeding machine scene where I laughed so much I was crying and my sides hurt. A few months after my post, the Chaplin YouTube channel posted the scene:
And a interesting picture of Chaplin rehearsing the scene:
Another scene that I love, and that is the fascinating foreshadowing scene where he gets falsely arrested for being a communist leader:
And lastly, a neat behind the scenes of how the roller skating scene used some special effects:
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