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Disc #1 -- Modern Times
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Modern Times: A Closer Look
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A Bucket of Water and A Glass Matte
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Silent Traces: Modern Times
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David Raksin and The Score
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Crossing The Street
The Tramp's Song, Unedited
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Disc #2 -- Modern Times
All At Sea
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Susan Cooke Kittredge
The Rink
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For The First Time
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Chaplin Today: "Modern Times"
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Disc #1 -- Modern Times
1. A Story of Industry [6:47]
2. Billows Feeding Machine [7:18]
3. "He's Crazy!!!" [5:08]
4. "Liberty or Death" [2:00]
5. The Gamine [2:23]
6. Nose Powder [5:38]
7. Trouble Outside [1:49]
8. Number Seven [6:03]
9. Dire Straits [5:24]
10. Fantasy Life [3:09]
11. Night Watchman [5:05]
12. Hungry Visitors [3:53]
13. Paradise [5:33]
14. Mechanic's Assistant [8:33]
15. Red Moon Cafe [7:45]
16. Singing Waiter [:56]
17. "Buck Up" [7:29]
1. Color Bars [2:09]
1. "Essentially a Silent Film" [6:47]
2. À nous la liberté [7:18]
3. Second Factory Sequence [5:08]
4. "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum" [2:00]
5. Paulette Goddard [2:23]
6. From Vaudeville to Independence [5:38]
7. Labor Unrest of the 1930s [1:49]
8. Bodily Functions [6:03]
9. Raksin, Powell, and Newman [5:24]
10. "Smile" [3:09]
11. Roller-Skating Skills [5:05]
12. Roland Totheroh [3:53]
13. "Spiritual Escapees" [5:33]
14. Chester Conklin [8:33]
15. Original Ending [7:45]
16. The Gibberish Song [:56]
17. "An Unknown Future" [7:29]
1. Color Bars [2:09]
Disc #2 -- Modern Times
1. Introduction [6:18]
2. Chaplin's World Tour [4:13]
3. Modern Times [5:59]
4. Silence and Sounds [4:21]
5. Goddard, and Gamine [3:18]
6. The Film's Ending [:01]
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Directors
Charles Chaplin
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Producers
Charles Chaplin
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Composers (Music Score)
Charles Chaplin
Alfred Newman
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Screen Writers
Charles Chaplin
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Others
Cinematographer - Ira Morgan
Cinematographer - Roland H. "Rollie" Totheroh
Composer (Music Score) - Charles Chaplin
Composer (Music Score) - Alfred Newman
First Assistant Director - Henry Bergman
Musical Arrangement - David Raksin
Musical Direction/Supervision - Alfred Newman
Production Designer - Charles Hall
Production Designer - Russell J. Spencer
Charles Chaplin's last "silent" film hilariously satirizes Depression-era social ills through the Tramp's disastrous encounters with the industrial age.
Chaplin turns his factory worker's nervous breakdown into comic set pieces involving an automated feeding machine, an inability to stop tightening bolts, and, most famously, his entrapment in machinery gears. In a potent satire of authoritarian idiocy,
Chaplin repeatedly ends up in jail for stumbling into worker riots and "Communist" protests, yet his ability to quell a prison break while accidentally hopped up on cocaine (!!) earns him the sheriff's respect.
Paulette Goddard's fetching Gamin helps
Chaplin find work as a singing waiter, but police intervention leaves their togetherness as their only hope. Accompanied by a
Chaplin-composed score (including
Smile) and synchronized sound effects, numerous bits of business showcase
Chaplin's silent gift for physical comedy, including a department store roller skate and maneuvers with a food tray. In a send-up of talking pictures and technology's dehumanizing effects in general, the only voices heard in the movie (save for
Chaplin's gibberish song and his fellow waiters' warbling) come from the factory's Orwellian telescreen P.A. system, a phonograph, and a radio. Three years in production,
Modern Times became another international success for
Chaplin (though it was banned in Germany and Italy) and one of the signature works of his career. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
