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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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"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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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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People demand to know,

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"Who is the Real
Charlie Chaplin?"

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(reel clicking)
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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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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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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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No set point in space or time.

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You can't pin him down.

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The only constants
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the boots and the mustache.

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Sometimes just the mustache.

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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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(crowd cheering)

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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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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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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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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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Of music.

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(woman vocalizing)

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(bell tolling)

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Film grows up alongside Chaplin.

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(people chattering)
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It captures the London
streets he roams as a kid.

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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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[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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(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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(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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(birds squawking)
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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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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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But his tour mates
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Offstage, he's quiet,
moody and reclusive.

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He's usually shabby
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Then, without warning,
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He teaches himself the
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But above all he vows that
he will not return poor.

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(cable car rumbling)
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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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They say that fortunes are
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The oil boom has created
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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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But Chaplin isn't
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He thinks they're a passing fad.

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[Mack] Mr. Chaplin got
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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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[Mack] I have a comedian
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His name was Ford Sterling.

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He was a chief of
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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
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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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[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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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
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of knockoff Chaplin films
under the name Charles Aplin.

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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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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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[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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[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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Why is Chaplin fever
spreading across the world?

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What is it about
this little Tramp?

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(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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(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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(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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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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(gentle music)

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(audience cheering)

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(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.

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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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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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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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[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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(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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He never believed it.

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He said, "Why would
anybody love me?"

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(pensive music)
(birds chirping)

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[Eddie] I am no psychiatrist,

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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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He still has fear of poverty.

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(gentle music)
(camera shutter clicking)

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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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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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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.

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(dramatic music)
(reel whirring)

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(reel whizzing)

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(reel clattering)

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(dramatic music)

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The actors are instructed
to perform each gesture

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exactly as he does

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as though they are mere
extensions of his body.

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Every nuance, every
glance, he makes first.

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His assistant says that if
he could have done every job

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on set himself, he would have.

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As it is, he writes,
directs, produces,

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edits, scores, and stars.

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(dramatic music)

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He even tries his hand
at hair and makeup.

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(bright music)

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Finally, when he
has total control,

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he begins his most
ambitious project yet.

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(gentle pensive music)

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(mournful music)

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(gentle pensive music)

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It's the story of
an abandoned child.

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Of a single mother too
poor to care for him.

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(gentle pensive music)

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(mournful music)

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(gentle music)

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(gentle peaceful music)

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In another life, the boy is
headed for the workhouse.

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(dramatic music)

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But in this version, when
the authorities arrive

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to take him away,

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he's not going without a fight.

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(dramatic music)

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00:39:58.896 --> 00:40:01.941
(suspenseful music)

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00:40:05.361 --> 00:40:07.780
(dramatic music)

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00:40:07.822 --> 00:40:10.575
(mournful music)

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00:40:29.761 --> 00:40:32.555
(dramatic music)

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00:40:41.981 --> 00:40:44.567
(gentle music)

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00:40:54.660 --> 00:40:57.789
(sweet gentle music)

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00:41:06.798 --> 00:41:09.425
(wind howling)

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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)

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00:41:58.349 --> 00:42:01.853
(gentle thoughtful music)

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It's been eight years
since he left London.

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And when he finally gets back,

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he hears a familiar voice.

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(somber music)

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[Narrator] He finds himself
back in the attic room

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of No. 3 Pownall Terrace.

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00:43:26.062 --> 00:43:28.940
Four walls that the
Chaplin family called home.

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00:43:32.693 --> 00:43:34.862
Where Chaplin's mother, Hannah,

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00:43:34.904 --> 00:43:37.782
delighted him with her
costumes and impressions.

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00:43:41.244 --> 00:43:45.748
Where she struggled to make
ends meet after her voice

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00:43:45.790 --> 00:43:48.668
and then her stage
career failed.

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(somber music)

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She sat at this window

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and told Charlie she
could see ghosts outside

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00:44:02.348 --> 00:44:04.475
before she was dragged
off to the asylum.

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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.

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00:44:17.905 --> 00:44:19.865
(gentle pensive music)

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00:44:19.907 --> 00:44:21.617
She's living in a nursing home.

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00:44:26.497 --> 00:44:28.666
So when Chaplin
returns to America,

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he brings her with him.

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00:44:35.506 --> 00:44:40.553
(gentle music)
(birds chirping)

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00:44:41.846 --> 00:44:44.473
But she teeters between worlds.

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00:44:44.515 --> 00:44:47.310
(dramatic music)

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00:44:51.272 --> 00:44:53.691
Present and past seem to blur.

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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

482
00:47:16.709 --> 00:47:20.504
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)