In this piece, visual effects expert Craig Barron takes a look at the set designs created by Charlie Chaplin and his team of artists and technicians—designs whose ingenuity, efficiency, and humor flowed from the unique creative process employed at Chaplin Studios.
The following eight minutes of footage were captured by Charlie Chaplin’s friend Ralph Barton. We see the director orchestrate a scene that reveals the flower girl’s blindness and establishes her belief that the Tramp is a wealthy man. It is presented here with audio commentary by Chaplin histori...
The following seven-minute outtake shows a comic routine originally intended to follow the statue unveiling at the start of CITY LIGHTS.
This costume test for an unfilmed sequence shows Charlie Chaplin as a duke—the way the blind flower girl envisioned her supposedly wealthy benefactor.
