It soon occurred to Chaplin that it was turning into a large project, so to placate First National he halted production and quickly filmed A Day's Pleasure.

Although the studio was quickly brought back into operation, it marked the beginning of severe difficulties for Chaplin.

He was quickly replaced by Harry Myers, who Chaplin had known while under contract at Keystone Studios.

Chaplin, with his Little Tramp character, quickly became the most popular star in Keystone director Mack Sennett's company of players.

He quickly rose in film production as an assistant director, and worked with Jean Renoir, Abraham Polonsky, Joseph Losey and Charlie Chaplin, with the latter as an assistant on Limelight.

Many studios quickly adopted the Moviola including Universal Studios, Warner Brothers, Charles Chaplin Studios, Buster Keaton Productions, Mary Pickford, Mack Sennett, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Chaplin recalled: " I had a disquieting feeling of sinking back into a depressing commonplaceness ", and was therefore " elated " when a new tour began in October.

There, Chaplin began to form a stock company of regular players, including Leo White, Bud Jamison, Paddy McGuire and Billy Armstrong.

With The Tramp, issued April 1915, Chaplin began to inject greater emotion into his pictures.

With the new year, however, Chaplin began to demand more time.

It was around this time that Chaplin began to conceive the Tramp as " a sort of Pierrot ", or sad clown.

Chaplin paid yet more concern to story construction, and began treating the Tramp as " a sort of Pierrot.

With Georgia Hale his new leading lady, Chaplin began filming the picture in February 1924.

When filming began at the end of 1928, Chaplin had been working on the story for almost a year.

Chaplin spent two years developing the script, and began filming in September 1939.

Shortly after the publication of his memoirs, Chaplin began work on what would be his final completed film, A Countess from Hong Kong ( 1967 ), based on a script he had written for Paulette Goddard in the 1930s.

Chaplin prepared the story throughout 1938 and 1939, and began filming in September 1939, one week after the beginning of World War II.

In early 1928 Chaplin began writing the script with Harry Carr.

Chaplin officially began pre-production of the film in May 1928 and hired Austrian art director Henry Clive to design the sets that summer.

Filming for City Lights officially began on December 27, 1928, after Chaplin and Carr had worked on the script for almost an entire year.

The scene tooks weeks to shoot and Chaplin first began to have second thoughts about casting Cherrill.

In November Chaplin began working with Cherrill again in some of the Flower Girls less dramatic scenes.

This plot was abandoned almost immediately, before Chaplin's character was introduced, the documentary states, and Chaplin began again, with a story, still set in a cafe, about a man who has never been in a restaurant before displaying terrible table manners before meeting a lovely girl ( Purviance ) and shaping up.

Chaplin began preparing the film in 1934 as his first " talkie ", and went as far as writing a dialogue script and experimenting with some sound scenes.

Chaplin first began discussing his ideas for a film about a circus as early as 1920.

In late 1925, he returned from New York to California and began working on developing the film at Charlie Chaplin Studios.

Eddie Cline began working for Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios in 1914 and supported Charlie Chaplin in some of the shorts he made at the studio.

From the beginning, Clampett was intrigued with and influenced by Douglas Fairbanks, Lon Chaney, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, and he began making film short-subjects in his garage beginning when he was twelve.

He met the likes of Louis Armstrong and began a long-lasting friendship with Charlie Chaplin.

The Tramp was closely identified with the silent era, and was considered an international character ; when the sound era began in the late 1920s, Chaplin refused to make a talkie featuring the character.

Sir Charles Spencer " Charlie " Chaplin, KBE ( 16 April 188925 December 1977 ) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era.

Mutual gave Chaplin his own Los Angeles studio to work in, which opened in March 1916.

For The Pawnshop he recruited the actor Henry Bergman, who was to work with Chaplin for 30 years.

With their careful construction — and in the case of Easy Street and The Immigrant, their social commentary — these films are considered by Chaplin scholars to be among his finest work.

The surprise preview showing in Los Angeles was not a success, and Chaplin left the movie theatre " with a feeling of two years ' work and two million dollars having gone down the drain.

The 1940s saw Chaplin face a series of controversies, both in his work and his personal life, which changed his fortunes and severely affected his popularity in America.

Deeply disturbed by the surge of militaristic nationalism in 1930s world politics, Chaplin found that he could not keep these issues out of his work: " How could I throw myself into feminine whimsy or think of romance or the problems of love when madness was being stirred up by a hideous grotesque, Adolf Hitler?

From the film industry, Chaplin drew upon the work of French comedian Max Linder, whose films he greatly admired.

Chaplin also received his only competitive Oscar for his composition work, receiving the Academy Award for Best Original Score for Limelight ( along with Raymond Rasch and Larry Russell ) in 1973.

Retrospectives of his work were presented that year at The National Film Theatre in London, the Munich Stadtmuseum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which also dedicated a gallery exhibition, Chaplin: A Centennial Celebration, to him.

It was in these early years that Remi developed a love of cinema, particularly favouring Windsor McCay's pioneering animated film Gertie the Dinosaur and the films featuring Charlie Chaplin, Harry Langdon and Buster Keaton ; his later work in the comic strip medium would display an obvious influence from these early films in style and content.

* On the television show Mystery Science Theater 3000, the Nanites ( voiced variously by Kevin Murphy, Paul Chaplin, Mary Jo Pehl, and Bridget Jones )-are self-replicating, bio-engineered organisms that work on the ship, they are microscopic creatures that reside in the Satellite of Love's computer systems.

The breakaway group felt that his work was no longer relevant, while having appreciated it " in its own time ," and asserted their belief " that the most urgent expression of freedom is the destruction of idols, especially when they claim to represent freedom ," in this case, filmmaker Charlie Chaplin.

The black cat of the Industrial Workers of the World, also adopted as a symbol by anarcho-syndicalistsAlthough he continued to work for labor rights after his release from prison, Chaplin was very disillusioned by the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.

As a consequence, his reputation and public recognition suffered in comparison with Chaplin and Keaton, whose work has generally been more available.

The landmark film of the Chaplin series is The Tramp ( 1915 ), in which Chaplin's vagabond character finds work on a farm and is smitten with the farmer's daughter.

This is significant for including Debord ’ s first appearance in print, alongside work from Wolman and Berna who, following an intervention at a Charlie Chaplin press conference at the Hotel Ritz in October, would join him in splitting from Isou ’ s group to form the Letterist International.

He first used City Lights — in homage to the Chaplin film — in 1952 as the title of a magazine, publishing early work by such key Bay Area writers as Philip Lamantia, Pauline Kael, Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, and Ferlinghetti himself, as “ Lawrence Ferling .” A year later, Martin used the name to establish the first all-paperback bookstore in the U. S., at the time an audacious idea.

Birthday Girl ( a 1998 film starring Nicole Kidman and Ben Chaplin ) features Hemel Hempstead prominently during scenes showing the main character going to and from his place of work ( a fictional bank somewhere in Bank Court ).

Much of Cahn's early work was written in partnership with Saul Chaplin.

His Keystone credentials were good enough to get him steady work as a comedy director with other companies ; he directed many of Chaplin imitator Billy West's comedies, which featured a young Oliver Hardy as villain.

In the past Serra has dedicated work to Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, Marilyn Monroe, Buster Keaton, the German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the art critic David Sylvester.

Chaplin tended to work with a repertory company of actors who performed exclusively in Chaplin's films.