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      (gentle tinkling music)       

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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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          (dramatic music)          

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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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        (people chattering)         
         (dramatic music)           

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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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      (bright sprightly music)      

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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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          (dramatic music)          

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          (dramatic music)          

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          (dramatic music)          

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        (suspenseful music)         

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       (dark dramatic music)        

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        (suspenseful music)         

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          (dramatic music)          

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           (reel clicking)          
          (dramatic music)          

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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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           (gentle music)           

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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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          (reel clicking)           

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         The only constants         
       are the hat, the cane,       

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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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           (bright music)           

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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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          (reel clicking)           

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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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         (thoughtful music)         
           (reel clicking)          

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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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           (gentle music)           

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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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          (birds chirping)          

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             Of music.              

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         (woman vocalizing)         

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           (gentle music)           

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          (dramatic music)          
           (bell tolling)           

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 Film grows up alongside Chaplin. 

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        (people chattering)         
          (gentle music)            

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       It captures the London       
     streets he roams as a kid.     

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        (people chattering)         

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         (mysterious music)         

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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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         (engine puttering)         
           (gentle music)           

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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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           (gentle music)           

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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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           (gentle music)           
         (engine rumbling)          

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          12 days in a rat          
       -infested cattle boat.       

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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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           (bright music)           

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         (birds squawking)          
           (gentle music)           

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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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          (dramatic music)          

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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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          (dramatic music)          

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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         
         flight of stairs.          

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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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           (bright music)           

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        But his tour mates          
        can't work him out.         

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       Offstage, he's quiet,        
        moody and reclusive.        

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        He's usually shabby         
          in appearance.            

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       Then, without warning,       
        he'll dress to kill.        

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       He teaches himself the       
    cello, ancient Greek, yoga.     

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     But above all he vows that     
      he will not return poor.      

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          (dramatic music)          

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        (cable car rumbling)        
           (bell clanging)          

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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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          (dramatic music)          

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     They say that fortunes are     
    there to be made in America.    

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          (pensive music)           

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      The oil boom has created      
       millionaires overnight.      

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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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        (audience laughing)         

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          (pensive music)           

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          But Chaplin isn't         
      impressed by the movies.      

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 He thinks they're a passing fad. 

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           (bright music)           

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           (upbeat music)           

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       [Mack] Mr. Chaplin got       
    into motion pictures purely,    

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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       
    working for me at the time.     

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    His name was Ford Sterling.     

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         He was a chief of          
         the Keystone Kops.         

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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       
         it out for a year.         

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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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       [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         
       man releases a series        

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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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   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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         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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        [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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          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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       (nightstick thudding)        

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          (dramatic music)          

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         (triumphant 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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         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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          (dramatic music)          

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        (suspenseful music)         

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          (dramatic 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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    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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    Someone who has no language,    

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    but who speaks to everyone.     

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          (dramatic music)          

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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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           (gentle music)           

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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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       (bright pensive music)       

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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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           (gentle music)           

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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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00:34:17,598 --> 00:34:19,559
         [Virginia] Charlie         
         was always acting.         

366
00:34:26,065 --> 00:34:29,736
       Always on show, always       
          the entertainer.          

367
00:34:32,405 --> 00:34:35,408
      He didn't want people to      
       know the real Charlie.       

368
00:34:36,617 --> 00:34:38,995
           (gentle music)           

369
00:34:39,037 --> 00:34:42,790
     One's bound to be insecure     
     with a childhood like his.     

370
00:34:43,958 --> 00:34:46,586
           (somber music)           

371
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:49,964
        [Lita] He never felt        
         anybody loved him.         

372
00:34:51,257 --> 00:34:53,926
          (pensive music)           

373
00:34:56,471 --> 00:34:57,597
       He never believed it.        

374
00:35:02,643 --> 00:35:04,771
        He said, "Why would         
         anybody love me?"          

375
00:35:07,398 --> 00:35:12,445
           (pensive music)          
          (birds chirping)          

376
00:35:19,786 --> 00:35:21,204
   [Eddie] I am no psychiatrist,    

377
00:35:21,245 --> 00:35:25,249
     but it's easy to see that      
    still has a fear of poverty.    

378
00:35:29,754 --> 00:35:31,464
           Don't care how           
         much money he has.         

379
00:35:33,257 --> 00:35:34,717
   He still has fear of poverty.    

380
00:35:36,803 --> 00:35:41,808
           (gentle music)           
     (camera shutter clicking)      

381
00:36:02,203 --> 00:36:04,997
          (dramatic music)          

382
00:36:18,803 --> 00:36:20,471
          (dramatic music)          

383
00:36:20,513 --> 00:36:22,598
   [Narrator] Within a few years,   

384
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:24,809
         Chaplin has built          
          his own studio,           

385
00:36:27,311 --> 00:36:29,188
 founded a distribution company,   

386
00:36:32,024 --> 00:36:35,194
       liberated himself from       
 dependence on financial backers. 

387
00:36:36,529 --> 00:36:39,323
          (dramatic music)          

388
00:36:44,829 --> 00:36:46,247
      He follows no schedule.       

389
00:36:47,915 --> 00:36:49,542
 He doesn't even follow a script. 

390
00:36:51,043 --> 00:36:52,879
          (reel clicking)           

391
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,214
    He starts with a vague idea     

392
00:36:56,215 --> 00:37:00,219
        and replays it again        
        and again and again,        

393
00:37:01,304 --> 00:37:02,471
      until it becomes funny.       

394
00:37:04,182 --> 00:37:09,187
          (dramatic music)          
           (reel whirring)          

395
00:37:22,950 --> 00:37:25,620
          (reel whizzing)           

396
00:37:27,872 --> 00:37:31,125
         (reel clattering)          

397
00:37:31,167 --> 00:37:33,878
          (dramatic music)          

398
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:37,632
     The actors are instructed      
      to perform each gesture       

399
00:37:37,673 --> 00:37:39,550
         exactly as he does         

400
00:37:41,010 --> 00:37:43,471
      as though they are mere       
      extensions of his body.       

401
00:37:46,307 --> 00:37:51,187
        Every nuance, every         
      glance, he makes first.       

402
00:37:53,940 --> 00:37:56,776
     His assistant says that if     
    he could have done every job    

403
00:37:56,817 --> 00:37:59,362
   on set himself, he would have.   

404
00:38:00,404 --> 00:38:03,950
        As it is, he writes,        
         directs, produces,         

405
00:38:03,991 --> 00:38:07,620
     edits, scores, and stars.      

406
00:38:07,662 --> 00:38:09,622
          (dramatic music)          

407
00:38:09,664 --> 00:38:12,416
       He even tries his hand       
         at hair and makeup.        

408
00:38:12,458 --> 00:38:15,086
           (bright music)           

409
00:38:18,881 --> 00:38:21,968
          Finally, when he          
         has total control,         

410
00:38:23,261 --> 00:38:26,305
         he begins his most         
       ambitious project yet.       

411
00:38:29,684 --> 00:38:32,979
       (gentle pensive music)       

412
00:38:40,987 --> 00:38:43,781
          (mournful music)          

413
00:38:45,533 --> 00:38:49,203
       (gentle pensive music)       

414
00:38:49,245 --> 00:38:52,665
         It's the story of          
        an abandoned child.         

415
00:38:55,334 --> 00:39:00,256
       Of a single mother too       
        poor to care for him.       

416
00:39:01,048 --> 00:39:04,343
       (gentle pensive music)       

417
00:39:08,139 --> 00:39:10,933
          (mournful music)          

418
00:39:15,187 --> 00:39:17,815
           (gentle music)           

419
00:39:32,997 --> 00:39:35,082
      (gentle peaceful music)       

420
00:39:35,124 --> 00:39:38,336
    In another life, the boy is     
     headed for the workhouse.      

421
00:39:40,046 --> 00:39:42,506
          (dramatic music)          

422
00:39:43,716 --> 00:39:46,510
     But in this version, when      
      the authorities arrive        

423
00:39:46,552 --> 00:39:47,595
         to take him away,          

424
00:39:49,722 --> 00:39:52,892
 he's not going without a fight.   

425
00:39:52,933 --> 00:39:55,728
          (dramatic music)          

426
00:39:58,939 --> 00:40:01,984
        (suspenseful music)         

427
00:40:05,404 --> 00:40:07,823
          (dramatic music)          

428
00:40:07,865 --> 00:40:10,618
          (mournful music)          

429
00:40:29,804 --> 00:40:32,598
          (dramatic music)          

430
00:40:42,024 --> 00:40:44,610
           (gentle music)           

431
00:40:54,703 --> 00:40:57,832
        (sweet gentle music)        

432
00:41:06,841 --> 00:41:09,468
           (wind howling)           

433
00:41:12,346 --> 00:41:17,393
           (crowd roaring)          
          (crowd cheering)          

434
00:41:40,207 --> 00:41:45,212
           (pensive music)          
          (crowd cheering)          

435
00:41:58,392 --> 00:42:01,896
     (gentle thoughtful music)      

436
00:42:04,565 --> 00:42:07,151
       It's been eight years        
       since he left London.        

437
00:42:09,987 --> 00:42:11,906
   And when he finally gets back,   

438
00:42:14,074 --> 00:42:16,202
     he hears a familiar voice.     

439
00:42:51,445 --> 00:42:54,073
           (somber music)           

440
00:43:15,177 --> 00:43:19,431
    [Narrator] He finds himself     
       back in the attic room       

441
00:43:19,473 --> 00:43:21,642
     of No. 3 Pownall Terrace.      

442
00:43:26,105 --> 00:43:28,983
        Four walls that the         
    Chaplin family called home.     

443
00:43:32,736 --> 00:43:34,905
 Where Chaplin's mother, Hannah,   

444
00:43:34,947 --> 00:43:37,825
      delighted him with her        
     costumes and impressions.      

445
00:43:41,287 --> 00:43:45,791
    Where she struggled to make     
     ends meet after her voice      

446
00:43:45,833 --> 00:43:48,711
         and then her stage         
           career failed.           

447
00:43:48,752 --> 00:43:51,338
           (somber music)           

448
00:43:54,466 --> 00:43:55,759
       She sat at this window       

449
00:43:56,844 --> 00:43:59,346
      and told Charlie she          
      could see ghosts outside      

450
00:44:02,391 --> 00:44:04,518
       before she was dragged       
         off to the asylum.         

451
00:44:06,562 --> 00:44:09,315
          (dramatic music)          

452
00:44:13,777 --> 00:44:17,906
        And Charlie's mother        
        hasn't left London.         

453
00:44:17,948 --> 00:44:19,908
       (gentle pensive music)       

454
00:44:19,950 --> 00:44:21,660
 She's living in a nursing home.   

455
00:44:26,540 --> 00:44:28,709
          So when Chaplin           
        returns to America,         

456
00:44:33,464 --> 00:44:34,673
      he brings her with him.       

457
00:44:35,549 --> 00:44:40,596
           (gentle music)           
          (birds chirping)          

458
00:44:41,889 --> 00:44:44,516
 But she teeters between worlds.   

459
00:44:44,558 --> 00:44:47,353
          (dramatic music)          

460
00:44:51,315 --> 00:44:53,734
   Present and past seem to blur.   

461
00:44:57,154 --> 00:45:00,157
       When she sees her son        
   dressed as a tramp, she says,    

462
00:45:01,659 --> 00:45:06,705
        "Charlie, I have to         
        get you a new suit.         

463
00:45:07,665 --> 00:45:10,376
          (pensive music)           

464
00:45:11,710 --> 00:45:14,254
           (gentle music)           

465
00:45:16,965 --> 00:45:20,844
        Meanwhile, her son is       
      making a Hollywood epic.      

466
00:45:22,012 --> 00:45:24,765
          (dramatic music)          

467
00:45:33,857 --> 00:45:38,696
     One that takes the Tramp       
     to the ends of the earth.      

468
00:45:38,737 --> 00:45:41,490
          (dramatic music)          

469
00:45:45,244 --> 00:45:46,662
           (gentle music)           

470
00:45:46,704 --> 00:45:51,583
          But it's themes           
        are closer to home.         

471
00:45:55,587 --> 00:45:59,049
     (gentle thoughtful music)      

472
00:46:05,180 --> 00:46:08,392
       (lively upbeat music)        

473
00:46:15,399 --> 00:46:18,152
          (dramatic music)          

474
00:46:24,908 --> 00:46:27,494
           (gentle music)           

475
00:46:38,714 --> 00:46:41,300
           (gentle music)           

476
00:46:53,103 --> 00:46:56,023
         (thoughtful music)         

477
00:47:03,113 --> 00:47:08,160
        (explosion booming)         
        (people chattering)         

478
00:47:08,619 --> 00:47:11,413
          (sirens wailing)          

479
00:47:13,957 --> 00:47:15,834
        [Man] This is a test        

480
00:47:16,752 --> 00:47:20,547
        to see how my voice         
        records on the film.        

481
00:47:20,589 --> 00:47:23,217
        (Charlie whistling)         

482
00:47:23,634 --> 00:47:27,054
      You are now listening to      
     a talking, moving picture.     

483
00:47:27,095 --> 00:47:30,057
       We believe an entirely       
      new art will be created.      

484
00:47:30,098 --> 00:47:33,352
      The beginning of a new        
      era in motion pictures.       

485
00:47:35,521 --> 00:47:37,064
          (people humming)          

486
00:47:37,105 --> 00:47:42,027
          (birds chirping)          
           (reel clicking)          

487
00:47:42,069 --> 00:47:46,031
   Suddenly the Tramp's strength    

488
00:47:47,741 --> 00:47:49,368
       becomes his weakness.        

489
00:47:49,409 --> 00:47:53,872
   (distorted voices chattering)    

490
00:47:53,914 --> 00:47:54,957
           He can't talk.           

491
00:47:57,584 --> 00:47:59,336
   What language would he speak?    

492
00:48:01,380 --> 00:48:02,506
           What dialect?            

493
00:48:04,132 --> 00:48:08,595
   (distorted voices chattering)    
         (dramatic music)           

494
00:48:08,637 --> 00:48:11,807
        1928 Warner axes all        
        its silent projects.        

495
00:48:12,891 --> 00:48:15,853
         1929 Fox follows.          

496
00:48:15,894 --> 00:48:17,020
              By 1930,              

497
00:48:17,062 --> 00:48:19,022
           (lion roaring)           

498
00:48:19,064 --> 00:48:21,567
           all the major            
        studios are talking.        

499
00:48:23,777 --> 00:48:27,990
       One by one Chaplin's         
   contemporaries start to talk.    

500
00:48:28,031 --> 00:48:30,200
      First, Laurel and Hardy.      

501
00:48:30,242 --> 00:48:31,410
         My trunk is packed         

502
00:48:31,451 --> 00:48:34,913
       and I am leaving for         
      South America, tonight.       

503
00:48:34,955 --> 00:48:36,540
   [Narrator] Then Harold Lloyd.    

504
00:48:37,624 --> 00:48:39,668
     I don't know what to say.      

505
00:48:39,710 --> 00:48:41,670
 Well, that's nothing new, dear.   

506
00:48:41,712 --> 00:48:43,755
 [Narrator] Then, Buster Keaton.   

507
00:48:43,797 --> 00:48:46,341
        Well, I got a lot of        
       serious talking to do        

508
00:48:46,383 --> 00:48:48,427
        and you got a lot of        
      serious listening to do.      

509
00:48:49,386 --> 00:48:52,097
        [Narrator] The talky        
        revolution is here.         

510
00:48:52,139 --> 00:48:54,600
      It's alive! It's alive!       

511
00:48:54,850 --> 00:48:56,518
           [Narrator] The           
       public is going crazy        

512
00:48:56,560 --> 00:48:58,770
      for anything that talks.      

513
00:48:58,812 --> 00:49:00,522
   Wait a minute! Wait a minute!    

514
00:49:00,564 --> 00:49:01,940
      You ain't heard nothin'.      

515
00:49:01,982 --> 00:49:04,943
       [Narrator] But Chaplin       
   decides to do the unthinkable.   

516
00:49:06,570 --> 00:49:08,447
     He'll make a silent film.      

517
00:49:08,488 --> 00:49:11,199
          (dramatic music)          

518
00:49:11,241 --> 00:49:16,413
             (silence)              

519
00:49:16,455 --> 00:49:19,625
       (sweet pensive music)        

520
00:49:27,174 --> 00:49:30,052
    Like most romantic comedies,    

521
00:49:30,093 --> 00:49:32,971
           "City Lights"            
    turns on a misunderstanding.    

522
00:49:34,097 --> 00:49:36,391
        (sweet gentle music)        

523
00:49:36,433 --> 00:49:40,312
    A blind flower girl mistakes    
    the Tramp for a millionaire.    

524
00:49:41,355 --> 00:49:43,815
           (gentle music)           

525
00:49:43,857 --> 00:49:48,111
      Simple enough on paper,       
      but there is no paper.        

526
00:49:49,738 --> 00:49:51,990
 Chaplin works without a script.   

527
00:49:53,283 --> 00:49:56,078
         And this scene is          
          to drive Chaplin          

528
00:49:56,119 --> 00:49:58,664
      and everyone around him       

529
00:49:59,498 --> 00:50:01,667
      to the edge of madness.       

530
00:50:04,378 --> 00:50:05,420
   [Interviewer] Can you tell us    

531
00:50:05,462 --> 00:50:07,005
         about the shooting         
         of that sequence?          

532
00:50:09,174 --> 00:50:10,217
        [Virginia] Oh dear.         

533
00:50:12,010 --> 00:50:14,638
          (dramatic music)          

534
00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:18,183
     He'd take it over and over     
           and over again.          

535
00:50:19,309 --> 00:50:21,353
          I often thought           
     that if he couldn't think      

536
00:50:21,395 --> 00:50:22,688
   what he was going to do next,    

537
00:50:22,729 --> 00:50:25,482
       he simply went on doing      
      the same shot over again      

538
00:50:25,524 --> 00:50:26,692
      until he thought of it.       

539
00:50:30,696 --> 00:50:31,863
    [Narrator] Chaplain agonizes    

540
00:50:31,905 --> 00:50:33,907
         over this mistaken         
           identity scene.          

541
00:50:36,284 --> 00:50:38,036
    It's the heart of the film.     

542
00:50:38,078 --> 00:50:39,496
       It has to feel right.        

543
00:50:40,872 --> 00:50:43,041
         [Virginia] He was          
          a perfectionist.          

544
00:50:43,083 --> 00:50:46,712
      And to us it often seem       
      to be exactly the same.       

545
00:50:48,422 --> 00:50:50,924
         When he'd finally          
         say "It's a take,"         

546
00:50:50,966 --> 00:50:52,384
   we'd breathe a sigh of relief.   

547
00:50:52,426 --> 00:50:55,095
     And then he'd say, "Well,      
    perhaps just one more time."    

548
00:51:11,278 --> 00:51:15,157
        [Narrator] It's not         
   working. Why isn't it working?   

549
00:51:15,198 --> 00:51:17,951
          (dramatic music)          

550
00:51:19,119 --> 00:51:22,414
        What if the rich man        
        buys a flower first?        

551
00:51:22,456 --> 00:51:25,083
             Then, no.              

552
00:51:27,711 --> 00:51:29,171
   Maybe it's Virginia Cherrill.    

553
00:51:51,651 --> 00:51:54,029
        [Narrator] 270 days         
          into the shoot.           

554
00:51:54,946 --> 00:51:56,448
    [Virginia] Charlie fired me.    

555
00:51:57,657 --> 00:52:00,243
           [Narrator] It's          
     Cherrill. She's not right.     

556
00:52:00,285 --> 00:52:02,621
           He needs a new           
       flower girl and fast.        

557
00:52:04,581 --> 00:52:07,292
    The whole thing is going to     
     cost a fortune to reshoot.     

558
00:52:10,170 --> 00:52:11,963
       He hires Georgia Hale,       

559
00:52:12,005 --> 00:52:13,965
          his leading lady          
       from "The Gold Rush."        

560
00:52:16,259 --> 00:52:18,136
         [Georgia] He said,         
       "I'm going to redo all       

561
00:52:18,178 --> 00:52:19,679
    of 'City Lights' with you."     

562
00:52:22,349 --> 00:52:24,684
           I'm gonna redo           
     the whole thing with you.      

563
00:52:26,269 --> 00:52:29,064
         [Narrator] But, no.        
      Hale's not right either.      

564
00:52:29,106 --> 00:52:30,982
          (dramatic music)          

565
00:52:31,024 --> 00:52:32,567
     He tests other actresses.      

566
00:52:37,364 --> 00:52:41,326
      They're just not, maybe       
       Cherrill was the one.        

567
00:52:42,452 --> 00:52:44,830
   He begs Cherrill to come back.   

568
00:52:44,871 --> 00:52:47,666
          (dramatic music)          

569
00:52:50,877 --> 00:52:53,338
   It's 534 days into the shoot,    

570
00:52:55,048 --> 00:52:57,259
       but they still haven't       
        got the flower scene.       

571
00:53:01,054 --> 00:53:03,348
       He shot an entire film       
         around the fulcrum         

572
00:53:03,390 --> 00:53:04,850
     of this mistaken identity      

573
00:53:07,144 --> 00:53:08,854
     and it just isn't working.     

574
00:53:10,063 --> 00:53:12,232
        (suspenseful music)         

575
00:53:12,274 --> 00:53:13,358
       Then it comes to him.        

576
00:53:18,321 --> 00:53:19,573
          A slamming door.          

577
00:53:22,075 --> 00:53:25,412
        The key to Chaplin's        
       defiantly silent opus        

578
00:53:27,706 --> 00:53:28,582
            is a sound.             

579
00:53:31,585 --> 00:53:34,212
           (gentle music)           

580
00:53:51,771 --> 00:53:54,399
           (gentle music)           

581
00:54:08,371 --> 00:54:10,957
           (gentle music)           

582
00:54:14,294 --> 00:54:16,922
           (gentle music)           

583
00:54:19,507 --> 00:54:22,093
           (gentle music)           

584
00:54:45,825 --> 00:54:48,453
           (gentle music)           

585
00:54:55,835 --> 00:54:58,463
           (gentle music)           

586
00:55:08,139 --> 00:55:11,268
        (sweet gentle music)        

587
00:55:31,579 --> 00:55:34,165
           (gentle music)           

588
00:55:53,643 --> 00:55:58,690
          (film whirring)           
           (gentle music)           

589
00:56:05,697 --> 00:56:07,699
           (gentle music)           

590
00:56:17,083 --> 00:56:19,711
           (gentle music)           

591
00:56:42,859 --> 00:56:45,445
           (gentle music)           

592
00:56:56,623 --> 00:56:59,334
          (pensive music)           

593
00:57:15,475 --> 00:57:18,103
           (gentle music)           

594
00:57:21,773 --> 00:57:24,025
          (crowd cheering)          

595
00:57:24,067 --> 00:57:28,571
    [Narrator] At the premiere,     
      50,000 people turn out,       

596
00:57:28,613 --> 00:57:30,782
      hoping to see the Tramp       
       and the flower girl.         

597
00:57:34,411 --> 00:57:36,162
   And some speculate the romance   

598
00:57:36,204 --> 00:57:38,123
        may not be confined         
          to the screen.            

599
00:57:41,251 --> 00:57:43,628
      [Virginia] Many people        
   thought I was his girlfriend,    

600
00:57:43,670 --> 00:57:44,587
           but I wasn't.            

601
00:57:46,631 --> 00:57:50,969
        I was much too old.         
        I was 20. (laughs)          

602
00:57:55,348 --> 00:57:56,975
        [Narrator] All four         
        of Chaplin's wives          

603
00:57:57,016 --> 00:57:58,560
        were young actresses.       

604
00:58:00,812 --> 00:58:02,647
       Three were teenagers.        

605
00:58:06,443 --> 00:58:08,820
       I've asked the author        
     of this book to visit us.      

606
00:58:08,862 --> 00:58:10,613
   Her name is Lita Grey Chaplin.   

607
00:58:10,655 --> 00:58:12,323
         The title is "My           
        life With Chaplin."         

608
00:58:12,365 --> 00:58:15,076
    [Narrator] We only have one     
    of Chaplin's wives on tape.     

609
00:58:15,118 --> 00:58:17,620
     [Interviewer] Second wife      
      of Charlie Chaplin and-       

610
00:58:17,662 --> 00:58:21,875
        [Narrator] 1966 she         
   releases her tell-all memoir.    

611
00:58:21,916 --> 00:58:24,461
       It is a controversial        
         sensational book.          

612
00:58:24,502 --> 00:58:26,754
   And here is Lita Grey Chaplin.   

613
00:58:26,796 --> 00:58:29,174
       (audience applauding)        

614
00:58:29,215 --> 00:58:31,843
           (upbeat music)           

615
00:58:33,720 --> 00:58:34,888
         I'm curious, Lita,         

616
00:58:34,929 --> 00:58:37,307
           to find out why          
     you would write this book.     

617
00:58:38,933 --> 00:58:40,685
 I had a compulsion to write it.   

618
00:58:40,727 --> 00:58:43,104
       I felt that the story        
        just had to be told         

619
00:58:43,146 --> 00:58:45,273
           or rather I had          
         to tell the story.         

620
00:58:45,315 --> 00:58:48,151
     I had lived so many years      
      with the untrue story.        

621
00:58:48,193 --> 00:58:51,154
 You starred in one of his movies 

622
00:58:51,196 --> 00:58:52,822
         or you appeared in         
         one of his movies.         

623
00:58:52,864 --> 00:58:54,824
       [Lita] "The Kid" when        
        I was 12 years old.         

624
00:58:54,866 --> 00:58:57,494
           (upbeat music)           

625
00:59:08,630 --> 00:59:10,173
       Can I ask how old you        
     were when you married him      

626
00:59:10,215 --> 00:59:11,007
        or is that a secret?        

627
00:59:11,049 --> 00:59:11,883
              Sixteen.              

628
00:59:13,092 --> 00:59:15,887
     And were you then heading      
    for a motion picture career?    

629
00:59:17,639 --> 00:59:20,058
        Yes, I had begun in         
        "The Gold Rush," but        

630
00:59:23,228 --> 00:59:26,731
        (throat clearing) I         
    couldn't finish the picture.    

631
00:59:26,773 --> 00:59:28,775
     Charlie takes two years to     
      make a picture, you know,     

632
00:59:28,816 --> 00:59:31,861
      and we became involved in     
     the meantime in such a way     

633
00:59:31,903 --> 00:59:34,113
        that I couldn't have        
       completed the picture.       

634
00:59:36,366 --> 00:59:40,411
     [Narrator] A teenage girl      
   pregnant with Chaplin's child.   

635
00:59:42,330 --> 00:59:44,207
 His first wife, Mildred Harris,   

636
00:59:45,542 --> 00:59:47,085
 went through something similar.   

637
00:59:49,003 --> 00:59:52,757
        She divorced Chaplin,       
       citing mental cruelty.       

638
00:59:54,926 --> 00:59:57,428
       And things don't start       
        any better for Lita.        

639
00:59:59,722 --> 01:00:01,224
 [Lita] We were married in Mexico 

640
01:00:01,266 --> 01:00:04,769
    because Charlie didn't want     
   much said about the marriage.    

641
01:00:04,811 --> 01:00:06,521
        He was pretty bitter        
         in the beginning.          

642
01:00:06,563 --> 01:00:09,941
       On the way back on the       
     train, he was quite nasty.     

643
01:00:09,983 --> 01:00:12,777
    We were standing out on the     
     platform between the cars      

644
01:00:12,819 --> 01:00:14,362
   while the train was traveling.   

645
01:00:14,862 --> 01:00:17,365
     And he said, we could just     
      end this whole situation      

646
01:00:17,407 --> 01:00:18,616
        if you'd just jump.         

647
01:00:19,450 --> 01:00:22,036
           (somber music)           

648
01:00:26,666 --> 01:00:29,794
        [Narrator] Two years        
    later, Lita sues for divorce    

649
01:00:29,836 --> 01:00:32,797
           (gentle music)           

650
01:00:32,839 --> 01:00:35,133
        and full custody of         
        their two children.         

651
01:00:38,052 --> 01:00:40,138
      It is, up to this point,      

652
01:00:40,179 --> 01:00:43,266
     the most expensive divorce     
      in Hollywood's history.       

653
01:00:46,978 --> 01:00:49,480
   The petition is so sensational   

654
01:00:49,522 --> 01:00:52,233
      that copies of it start       
      selling on the street.        

655
01:00:53,234 --> 01:00:56,195
         (thoughtful music)         

656
01:00:58,740 --> 01:01:02,035
         Lita describes him         
       as a serial adulterer        

657
01:01:02,076 --> 01:01:04,662
         who cheats openly          
         and compulsively.          

658
01:01:06,414 --> 01:01:08,833
          She claims he's           
       paranoid and jealous.        

659
01:01:11,127 --> 01:01:12,879
     That he flies into rages,      

660
01:01:13,880 --> 01:01:17,842
          bugs her room,            
        pulls a gun on her.         

661
01:01:19,385 --> 01:01:21,012
         She says he tried          
          to pressure her           

662
01:01:21,054 --> 01:01:23,056
           into getting a           
        backstreet abortion.        

663
01:01:26,559 --> 01:01:31,105
        Chaplin calls Lita a        
    blackmailer, a gold digger,     

664
01:01:31,147 --> 01:01:32,190
          a little whore.           

665
01:01:36,694 --> 01:01:39,781
        The papers label her        
       Chaplin's child bride,       

666
01:01:39,822 --> 01:01:41,699
       his school girl wife.        

667
01:01:44,410 --> 01:01:46,913
     And in a letter of support     
      for the genius Chaplin,       

668
01:01:48,706 --> 01:01:50,875
            30 European             
      intellectuals brand her       

669
01:01:50,917 --> 01:01:54,545
        an idiot woman, cow,        

670
01:01:54,587 --> 01:01:57,173
      slut, vermin, parasite.       

671
01:02:05,848 --> 01:02:09,102
        A part of the public        
      thought that I was wrong      

672
01:02:09,143 --> 01:02:10,978
        in my divorce case.         

673
01:02:11,020 --> 01:02:16,067
    That he was the poor little     
 mistreated, pathetic little man   

674
01:02:16,275 --> 01:02:18,152
    with so much pathos and all.    

675
01:02:18,194 --> 01:02:20,863
       That me and my family        
         were gold diggers          

676
01:02:20,905 --> 01:02:23,199
     and all this kind of talk.     

677
01:02:23,241 --> 01:02:26,202
         And that was, that         
          made me feel bad          

678
01:02:26,244 --> 01:02:28,329
       because I knew that a        
       portion of the public        

679
01:02:28,371 --> 01:02:31,124
       believed a lot because       
       they idolized Charlie.       

680
01:02:33,126 --> 01:02:35,920
          (pensive music)           

681
01:02:35,962 --> 01:02:37,755
        [Narrator] For many         
         years afterwards,          

682
01:02:37,797 --> 01:02:40,425
        Lita struggles with         
      depression and alcohol.       

683
01:02:41,759 --> 01:02:44,429
          (pensive music)           

684
01:02:46,806 --> 01:02:49,308
     She tries to set the story     
      straight in interviews,       

685
01:02:52,311 --> 01:02:54,105
            but the topic           
       frequently strays back       

686
01:02:54,147 --> 01:02:55,940
          to the matter of          
         Chaplin's genius.          

687
01:02:59,652 --> 01:03:02,447
         (thoughtful music)         

688
01:03:04,907 --> 01:03:06,117
       Even after her death,        

689
01:03:07,744 --> 01:03:10,580
       biographies of Chaplin       
    continue to characterize her    

690
01:03:10,621 --> 01:03:13,624
       as a manipulative and        
      seductive teenage girl.       

691
01:03:17,879 --> 01:03:20,131
   Chaplin, in his autobiography,   

692
01:03:21,048 --> 01:03:23,843
        dedicates just three        
         sentences to Lita.         

693
01:03:26,304 --> 01:03:28,014
   He never mentions her by name.   

694
01:03:31,309 --> 01:03:36,314
           (gentle music)           
          (reel whirring)           

695
01:03:50,787 --> 01:03:55,833
          (dramatic music)          
     (camera shutter clicking)      

696
01:03:57,835 --> 01:04:00,505
          (crowd cheering)          

697
01:04:03,341 --> 01:04:05,551
          [Narrator] Lita's         
      story is a shocking one.      

698
01:04:08,012 --> 01:04:12,475
         But for Chaplin it         
          changes nothing.          

699
01:04:15,019 --> 01:04:18,189
       (lively upbeat music)        

700
01:04:37,708 --> 01:04:42,713
          (crowd roaring)           
       (lively upbeat music)        

701
01:04:44,590 --> 01:04:47,468
          (train chugging)          

702
01:04:47,510 --> 01:04:50,555
           (bright music)           

703
01:04:50,596 --> 01:04:52,807
     Plenty has changed though.     

704
01:04:54,100 --> 01:04:56,227
       (bright upbeat music)        

705
01:04:56,269 --> 01:05:01,190
    The optimism of the Roaring     
 Twenties has come crashing down   

706
01:05:02,692 --> 01:05:05,069
          and at every stop         
      on Chaplin's world tour,      

707
01:05:06,821 --> 01:05:09,407
       he sees the ravages of       
        the Great Depression.       

708
01:05:11,826 --> 01:05:14,871
    Communists and fascists are     
     fighting in the streets.       

709
01:05:16,455 --> 01:05:21,460
           (upbeat music)           
         (people shouting)          

710
01:05:22,044 --> 01:05:25,756
     Queues outside screenings      
         of "City Lights,"          

711
01:05:25,798 --> 01:05:27,425
   are mistaken for bread lines.    

712
01:05:30,803 --> 01:05:33,389
           (somber music)           

713
01:05:35,725 --> 01:05:38,519
          (crowd shouting)          

714
01:05:38,561 --> 01:05:41,606
   In London with Mahatma Gandhi,   

715
01:05:41,647 --> 01:05:45,234
           he discusses             
       poverty, exploitation        

716
01:05:45,276 --> 01:05:47,278
   and the misuse of the machine.   

717
01:05:48,321 --> 01:05:50,406
          (dramatic music)          

718
01:05:50,448 --> 01:05:53,326
       A film is taking shape       
         in Chaplin's head.         

719
01:05:55,953 --> 01:05:58,706
          (dramatic music)          

720
01:06:06,422 --> 01:06:09,717
       (bright frantic music)       

721
01:06:21,187 --> 01:06:24,649
      (dramatic frantic music)      

722
01:06:25,775 --> 01:06:28,361
           (bright music)           

723
01:06:34,492 --> 01:06:37,119
           (gentle music)           

724
01:06:45,836 --> 01:06:48,589
          (dramatic music)          

725
01:06:57,974 --> 01:07:01,352
    (dramatic suspenseful music)    

726
01:07:01,394 --> 01:07:04,522
       (dark dramatic music)        

727
01:07:09,902 --> 01:07:13,280
           It's number one          
     at the British Box Office,     

728
01:07:13,322 --> 01:07:15,533
       a smash in The States.       

729
01:07:15,574 --> 01:07:17,368
   Acclaimed in the Soviet Union.   

730
01:07:19,996 --> 01:07:24,750
        But in one country,         
    the film is banned outright.    

731
01:07:24,792 --> 01:07:27,128
          (sirens wailing)          

732
01:07:27,169 --> 01:07:28,587
          (dramatic music)          

733
01:07:28,629 --> 01:07:31,215
           (bell ringing)           

734
01:07:35,511 --> 01:07:37,596
     Munich, 15 years earlier.      

735
01:07:43,477 --> 01:07:46,188
        A little man marches        
          down the street,          

736
01:07:46,731 --> 01:07:49,442
        swishing at the air         
      with some sort of cane.       

737
01:07:52,778 --> 01:07:55,114
       His comical appearance       
         attracts attention,        

738
01:07:55,740 --> 01:07:59,577
    particularly his conspicuous    
        toothbrush mustache.        

739
01:08:01,912 --> 01:08:03,080
      He looks very familiar.       

740
01:08:05,916 --> 01:08:08,836
     "Who is this funny little      
      fellow?" someone asks.        

741
01:08:12,548 --> 01:08:14,925
      He's the leader of some       
      fringe political group.       

742
01:08:18,137 --> 01:08:20,723
          (dramatic music)          

743
01:08:20,765 --> 01:08:23,684
        "Just think," remarks       
     Chaplin a few years later,     

744
01:08:24,769 --> 01:08:27,229
         "He's the madman,          
          I'm the comic."           

745
01:08:28,439 --> 01:08:30,441
       But it could have been       
        the other way around.       

746
01:08:30,483 --> 01:08:33,861
          (dramatic music)          

747
01:08:33,903 --> 01:08:36,655
          (dramatic music)          

748
01:08:37,364 --> 01:08:41,285
    Chaplin and Hitler are born     
 within four days of each other.   

749
01:08:43,829 --> 01:08:46,874
         They both grow up          
       adoring their mothers        

750
01:08:46,916 --> 01:08:49,126
        and resenting their         
         drunken fathers.           

751
01:08:51,462 --> 01:08:52,963
      Both have known poverty.      

752
01:08:54,090 --> 01:08:55,674
    One plays a tramp on screen     

753
01:08:57,384 --> 01:09:00,179
    while the other is homeless     
     on the streets of Vienna.      

754
01:09:01,639 --> 01:09:04,141
          (dramatic music)          

755
01:09:04,183 --> 01:09:07,978
 Both are driven by a passionate   
      intensity and ambition,       

756
01:09:08,771 --> 01:09:10,314
       laced with self-pity.        

757
01:09:15,277 --> 01:09:20,407
   Sound threatens Chaplin's art,   
    but is the making of Hitler.    

758
01:09:20,449 --> 01:09:24,245
        (Hitler speaking in         
         foreign language)          

759
01:09:24,286 --> 01:09:26,664
        [Narrator] They are         
     both mesmeric performers.      

760
01:09:28,791 --> 01:09:30,417
 They know how to command a crowd 

761
01:09:30,459 --> 01:09:32,586
    through exaggerated gestures    

762
01:09:32,628 --> 01:09:34,672
           and heightened           
         emotional appeals.         

763
01:09:36,674 --> 01:09:40,678
        Both elicit intense,        
     almost physical reactions      

764
01:09:40,719 --> 01:09:41,846
       from their audiences.        

765
01:09:43,222 --> 01:09:44,557
     Chaplin makes them laugh.      

766
01:09:45,933 --> 01:09:48,519
         Hitler drives them         
           into a frenzy.           

767
01:09:48,561 --> 01:09:51,355
          (crowd cheering)          

768
01:09:53,941 --> 01:09:57,778
         And then of course         
       there's the mustache.        

769
01:09:57,820 --> 01:10:01,490
        (suspenseful music)         

770
01:10:01,532 --> 01:10:03,909
        But when Chaplin and        
     Hitler look at each other,     

771
01:10:05,244 --> 01:10:06,328
         what do they see?          

772
01:10:08,247 --> 01:10:09,874
      The Nazis hate Chaplin.       

773
01:10:10,749 --> 01:10:11,959
        They label him a Jew        

774
01:10:12,543 --> 01:10:15,546
       and use him in their         
      antisemitic propaganda.       

775
01:10:15,588 --> 01:10:19,884
          (man speaking in          
         foreign language)          

776
01:10:29,435 --> 01:10:32,146
          (crowd shouting)          

777
01:10:32,897 --> 01:10:36,400
   [Narrator] Neither can escape    
    comparisons with the other.     

778
01:10:38,068 --> 01:10:41,405
         And so, as Hitler          
    celebrates his 50th birthday    

779
01:10:41,447 --> 01:10:43,699
           with a military          
       parade through Berlin,       

780
01:10:45,826 --> 01:10:49,955
      Chaplin is working on a       
    script for his latest film.     

781
01:10:49,997 --> 01:10:52,124
          (dramatic music)          

782
01:10:52,166 --> 01:10:56,295
     He begins filming the week     
 Britain declares war on Germany. 

783
01:10:59,256 --> 01:11:02,092
      In it, Chaplin collapses      
          the distinctions          

784
01:11:02,134 --> 01:11:03,469
     between himself and Hitler     

785
01:11:05,596 --> 01:11:08,599
 as the dictator Adenoid Hynkel.   

786
01:11:08,641 --> 01:11:13,646
          (dramatic music)          
          (crowd cheering)          

787
01:11:19,985 --> 01:11:21,987
       But it's also a story        
         of doppelgangers.          

788
01:11:23,656 --> 01:11:27,201
      He simultaneously plays       
        the Jewish barber.          

789
01:11:27,243 --> 01:11:29,703
     Before we take you down,       
     you'll finish this. Here!      

790
01:11:30,913 --> 01:11:31,956
          (dramatic music)          
           (hand slapping)          

791
01:11:31,997 --> 01:11:33,123
        Come on. Paint that.        

792
01:11:33,165 --> 01:11:34,083
         (paint splashing)          

793
01:11:34,124 --> 01:11:35,251
              Why you!              

794
01:11:35,292 --> 01:11:36,460
          (blows thudding)          

795
01:11:36,502 --> 01:11:38,087
               - Ow!                
         - Hey, come here!          

796
01:11:38,128 --> 01:11:40,547
    Chaplin, who wasn't Jewish,     

797
01:11:40,589 --> 01:11:44,635
       has finally aligned the      
      Tramp with one identity.      

798
01:11:44,677 --> 01:11:47,805
        (soldiers shouting)         

799
01:11:47,846 --> 01:11:52,142
       A persecuted minority        
       facing extermination.        

800
01:11:52,184 --> 01:11:54,853
          (ominous music)           

801
01:11:58,691 --> 01:12:00,651
        (quiet tense music)         

802
01:12:12,162 --> 01:12:14,957
          (crowd cheering)          

803
01:12:16,375 --> 01:12:19,169
          (sinister music)          

804
01:12:46,572 --> 01:12:49,199
           (somber music)           

805
01:12:50,367 --> 01:12:51,952
   [Narrator] At the film's end,    

806
01:12:52,911 --> 01:12:55,706
      the Tramp is mistaken         
          for the dictator          

807
01:13:00,294 --> 01:13:03,297
 and forced to address the world. 

808
01:13:03,339 --> 01:13:05,924
           (somber music)           

809
01:13:08,010 --> 01:13:09,720
         When the greatest          
          comedy character          

810
01:13:09,762 --> 01:13:12,014
    of all time finally speaks,     

811
01:13:14,016 --> 01:13:15,392
      it's not to tell a joke.      

812
01:13:18,395 --> 01:13:22,024
       I'm sorry, but I don't       
       want to be an emperor.       

813
01:13:22,066 --> 01:13:23,359
      That's not my business.       

814
01:13:24,318 --> 01:13:26,820
        I don't want to rule        
         or conquer anyone.         

815
01:13:26,862 --> 01:13:28,739
        I should like to help       
       everyone, if possible.       

816
01:13:28,781 --> 01:13:32,242
 Jew, Gentile, black men, white,   

817
01:13:32,284 --> 01:13:33,827
 we all want to help one another. 

818
01:13:33,869 --> 01:13:35,829
    Human beings are like that.     

819
01:13:35,871 --> 01:13:37,206
           We want to live          
     by each other's happiness,     

820
01:13:37,247 --> 01:13:39,083
    not by each other's misery.     

821
01:13:39,124 --> 01:13:41,585
        We don't want to hate       
      and despise one another.      

822
01:13:41,627 --> 01:13:43,087
           In this world            
     there's room for everyone      

823
01:13:43,128 --> 01:13:46,882
    and the good earth is rich      
   and can provide for everyone.    

824
01:13:46,924 --> 01:13:50,010
       The way of life can be       
         free and beautiful,        

825
01:13:50,052 --> 01:13:52,096
     but we have lost the way.      

826
01:13:52,137 --> 01:13:54,765
 Greed has poisoned men's souls,   

827
01:13:54,807 --> 01:13:57,101
         has barricaded the         
          world with hate,          

828
01:13:57,142 --> 01:14:00,145
     has goose-stepped us into      
       misery and bloodshed.        

829
01:14:00,187 --> 01:14:03,565
      We have developed speed,      
   but we have shut ourselves in.   

830
01:14:03,607 --> 01:14:06,568
        Machinery that gives        
   abundance has left us in want.   

831
01:14:06,610 --> 01:14:08,320
         Our knowledge has          
          made us cynical,          

832
01:14:08,362 --> 01:14:10,656
 our cleverness hard and unkind.   

833
01:14:10,697 --> 01:14:13,117
         We think too much          
        and feel too little.        

834
01:14:14,410 --> 01:14:15,953
   You, the people have the power   

835
01:14:15,994 --> 01:14:17,955
         to make this life          
        free and beautiful,         

836
01:14:17,996 --> 01:14:20,416
          to make this life         
       a wonderful adventure.       

837
01:14:20,457 --> 01:14:23,669
   Then in the name of democracy,   
       let us use that power.       

838
01:14:23,710 --> 01:14:25,129
         Let us all unite!          

839
01:14:25,170 --> 01:14:28,841
       Let us fight for a new       
       world, a decent world,       

840
01:14:28,882 --> 01:14:30,509
         that will give men         
         a chance to work,          

841
01:14:30,551 --> 01:14:33,637
   that will give you the future    
      and old age a security.       

842
01:14:33,679 --> 01:14:36,723
 By the promise of these things,   
    brutes have risen to power.     

843
01:14:36,765 --> 01:14:39,476
       But they lie. They do        
     not fulfill that promise.      

844
01:14:39,518 --> 01:14:40,978
          They never will!          

845
01:14:41,019 --> 01:14:44,481
     Dictators free themselves,     
    but they enslave the people.    

846
01:14:44,523 --> 01:14:47,609
          Now let us fight          
      to fulfill that promise.      

847
01:14:47,651 --> 01:14:50,070
 Let us fight to free the world,   

848
01:14:50,112 --> 01:14:52,156
           to do away with          
         national barriers,         

849
01:14:52,197 --> 01:14:55,826
       to do away with greed,       
     with hate and intolerance.     

850
01:14:55,868 --> 01:14:58,162
          Let us fight for          
         a world of reason,         

851
01:14:58,203 --> 01:15:00,706
        a world where science       
       and progress will lead       

852
01:15:00,747 --> 01:15:02,791
      to all men's happiness.       

853
01:15:02,833 --> 01:15:07,379
      Soldiers, in the name of      
    democracy, let us all unite!    

854
01:15:07,421 --> 01:15:10,174
          (crowd cheering)          

855
01:15:14,428 --> 01:15:17,181
          (dramatic music)          

856
01:15:21,685 --> 01:15:25,189
     [Narrator] Chaplin knows       
   the Tramp can't survive this.    

857
01:15:28,901 --> 01:15:30,694
      By breaking his silence,      

858
01:15:32,446 --> 01:15:34,823
          he's putting his          
       creation on the alter.       

859
01:15:40,120 --> 01:15:43,373
     But after a quarter of a       
   century in the Tramp costume,    

860
01:15:46,668 --> 01:15:48,045
        can Chaplin be sure         

861
01:15:49,880 --> 01:15:51,715
   that he will re-emerge whole?    

862
01:15:56,094 --> 01:15:58,096
          Can there be one          

863
01:15:59,515 --> 01:16:00,974
         without the other?         

864
01:16:01,016 --> 01:16:03,644
           (gentle music)           

865
01:16:17,449 --> 01:16:20,077
           (wind howling)           

866
01:16:22,037 --> 01:16:23,705
             It's 1947.             

867
01:16:23,747 --> 01:16:26,542
      (camera flashes popping)      

868
01:16:26,583 --> 01:16:28,752
         Charlie Chaplin is         
     holding a press conference     

869
01:16:28,794 --> 01:16:30,546
 at the Gotham Hotel in New York. 

870
01:16:34,091 --> 01:16:36,426
       He's about to release        
      his new motion picture.       

871
01:16:38,262 --> 01:16:40,806
    His first without the Tramp.    

872
01:16:43,475 --> 01:16:48,480
     But as he knows, no one's      
    here to talk about the film.    

873
01:16:49,439 --> 01:16:50,899
              Chaplin.              

874
01:16:50,941 --> 01:16:51,942
       (audience applauding)        

875
01:16:55,737 --> 01:17:00,701
       (camera bulbs popping)       
        (audience applauding)       

876
01:17:11,420 --> 01:17:14,464
        (audience laughing)         

877
01:17:27,519 --> 01:17:28,353
       (camera flash popping)       

878
01:17:29,771 --> 01:17:32,858
         [Narrator] So, how         
          did we get here?          

879
01:17:33,942 --> 01:17:37,154
          (crowd cheering)          

880
01:17:37,195 --> 01:17:40,198
      "The Great Dictator" has      
      been an enormous success      

881
01:17:41,533 --> 01:17:44,369
       and its closing speech       
       has made such a splash       

882
01:17:44,870 --> 01:17:47,331
           that Chaplin is          
        invited to repeat it        

883
01:17:48,582 --> 01:17:52,919
       at the inauguration of       
 President Franklin D. Roosevelt. 

884
01:17:52,961 --> 01:17:54,463
         [Charlie] You, the         
       people, have the power       

885
01:17:54,504 --> 01:17:56,173
         to make this life          
        free and beautiful,         

886
01:17:56,214 --> 01:17:58,884
        to make this life a         
        wonderful adventure         

887
01:17:59,551 --> 01:18:03,597
   that in the name of democracy,   
       let us use that power.       

888
01:18:03,639 --> 01:18:05,057
         Let us all unite!          

889
01:18:05,098 --> 01:18:07,809
        At a fundraiser for         
      the Russian war relief,       

890
01:18:07,851 --> 01:18:10,479
       he's invited to speak        
         for four minutes.          

891
01:18:10,520 --> 01:18:11,980
 [Charlie] We must have a unity.   

892
01:18:12,022 --> 01:18:13,231
    [Narrator] He speaks for 40.    

893
01:18:13,273 --> 01:18:16,068
       [Charlie] And only by        
       the strength of unity        

894
01:18:16,109 --> 01:18:17,861
        can we win this war.        

895
01:18:17,903 --> 01:18:20,322
     [Narrator] He gets carried     
       away, goes off script.       

896
01:18:20,364 --> 01:18:22,949
        [Charlie] I certainly       
     think if that's communism,     

897
01:18:22,991 --> 01:18:24,534
      there's a lot of people       
       in the United States         

898
01:18:24,576 --> 01:18:25,619
        that'll vote for it.        

899
01:18:28,705 --> 01:18:31,667
     [Narrator] Having waited       
   so long to break his silence,    

900
01:18:33,085 --> 01:18:34,836
    Chaplin can't stop talking.     

901
01:18:35,879 --> 01:18:38,090
       [Charlie] I just made        
        a speech in Chicago         

902
01:18:38,131 --> 01:18:41,593
     and I happened to say that     
 while people are anticommunist,   

903
01:18:41,635 --> 01:18:43,804
   I am going to be communistic.    

904
01:18:43,845 --> 01:18:45,472
       (audience applauding)        

905
01:18:45,514 --> 01:18:46,973
   We must have the full strength   

906
01:18:47,015 --> 01:18:49,393
        from the capitalist         
         to the communist,          

907
01:18:49,434 --> 01:18:52,062
          in order that we          
       shall achieve victory.       

908
01:18:52,104 --> 01:18:55,816
       (audience applauding)        

909
01:18:55,857 --> 01:18:59,778
       [Narrator] And people        
      are starting to listen.       

910
01:19:00,946 --> 01:19:03,949
        (suspenseful music)         

911
01:19:06,034 --> 01:19:08,412
      Under the orders of its       
        notorious director,         

912
01:19:08,453 --> 01:19:10,706
          J. Edgar Hoover,          

913
01:19:10,747 --> 01:19:14,543
        the FBI is engaged in       
     wide ranging investigation     

914
01:19:14,584 --> 01:19:16,586
    into Chaplin's possible ties    

915
01:19:17,754 --> 01:19:20,173
        to the international        
        communist movement.         

916
01:19:21,049 --> 01:19:23,343
        (suspenseful music)         

917
01:19:23,385 --> 01:19:25,804
     The Red Scare is underway,     

918
01:19:25,846 --> 01:19:26,930
          (dramatic music)          

919
01:19:26,972 --> 01:19:28,849
 from Capitol hill to Hollywood.   

920
01:19:30,642 --> 01:19:33,854
            Communism in            
     reality is akin to disease     

921
01:19:33,895 --> 01:19:35,731
 that's spread like an epidemic.   

922
01:19:35,772 --> 01:19:37,357
       And like an epidemic,        

923
01:19:37,399 --> 01:19:40,944
    a quarantine is necessary to    
   keep from infecting the state.   

924
01:19:42,028 --> 01:19:44,322
             [Narrator]             
   Actors, writers and filmmakers   

925
01:19:44,364 --> 01:19:45,657
            are dragged             
       in front of the House        

926
01:19:45,699 --> 01:19:48,034
            un-American             
       Activities Committee.        

927
01:19:48,076 --> 01:19:49,536
    [Representative] Are you or     
    have you ever been a member     

928
01:19:49,578 --> 01:19:51,079
      of the communist party?       

929
01:19:51,121 --> 01:19:53,540
   [Representative] What is your    
   opinion regarding communism?     

930
01:19:53,582 --> 01:19:56,752
      I feel that they really       
      ought to be smoked out.       

931
01:19:56,793 --> 01:19:57,753
     If I had my way about it,      

932
01:19:57,794 --> 01:19:59,713
         they'd all be sent         
           back to Russia           

933
01:19:59,755 --> 01:20:02,007
 or some other unpleasant place.   

934
01:20:02,048 --> 01:20:04,593
       (audience applauding)        

935
01:20:04,634 --> 01:20:07,971
    [Narrator] 10 Are imprisoned    
      for refusing to testify.      

936
01:20:12,017 --> 01:20:13,727
     Hundreds are blacklisted.      

937
01:20:15,687 --> 01:20:20,025
    Taking down a big star would    
     be a major coup for Hoover     

938
01:20:21,818 --> 01:20:25,989
      and they don't come much      
    bigger than Charlie Chaplin.    

939
01:20:26,031 --> 01:20:28,408
     [Representative] Are you a     
   member of the communist party?   

940
01:20:28,450 --> 01:20:30,076
          (gavel thudding)          
       (camera flash popping)       

941
01:21:01,274 --> 01:21:04,236
    [Narrator] But this response    
      doesn't satisfy Hoover.       

942
01:21:06,196 --> 01:21:08,114
      Through the FBI's lens,       

943
01:21:08,156 --> 01:21:10,534
        Chaplin becomes not         
         only a communist,          

944
01:21:11,868 --> 01:21:13,495
     but a foreign subversive,      

945
01:21:14,704 --> 01:21:17,666
        a homosexual, a Jew.        

946
01:21:20,836 --> 01:21:23,338
         It tells us a lot          
         more about the FBI         

947
01:21:23,380 --> 01:21:25,298
    than it does about Chaplin.     

948
01:21:25,340 --> 01:21:28,385
        (suspenseful music)         

949
01:21:29,344 --> 01:21:30,720
     They're looking for dirt.      

950
01:21:33,014 --> 01:21:37,435
      And in this department,       
     they have a powerful ally.     

951
01:21:40,897 --> 01:21:42,232
          Hello everybody.          

952
01:21:42,274 --> 01:21:44,150
   This is Hedda Hopper reporting   
       to you from Hollywood.       

953
01:21:44,192 --> 01:21:46,695
     That fabulous place where      
      everyone wants to live,       

954
01:21:46,736 --> 01:21:48,363
          but seldom does.          

955
01:21:48,405 --> 01:21:50,949
     [Narrator] "Hedda Hopper's     
      Hollywood Gossip Column"      

956
01:21:50,991 --> 01:21:54,077
 is read by 32 million Americans. 

957
01:21:54,119 --> 01:21:56,121
   Work in Culver City and play.    

958
01:21:56,162 --> 01:21:57,205
    [Narrator] She has the power    

959
01:21:57,247 --> 01:21:58,707
     to make or break careers.      

960
01:21:58,748 --> 01:22:00,959
      Palm Springs, the other       
     day I decided to get away-     

961
01:22:01,001 --> 01:22:02,460
         [Narrator] and she         
         hates communists.          

962
01:22:02,502 --> 01:22:04,713
   Saw a little bit of sunshine.    

963
01:22:04,754 --> 01:22:06,548
    [Narrator] She tells Hoover,    

964
01:22:06,590 --> 01:22:09,801
   I'd like to run every one of     
   those rats out of the country    

965
01:22:11,553 --> 01:22:14,764
 and start with Charlie Chaplin.   

966
01:22:16,600 --> 01:22:19,185
           (bright music)           

967
01:22:19,227 --> 01:22:22,939
     The file shows that Hopper     
      and Hoover's relationship     

968
01:22:22,981 --> 01:22:24,816
     is more or less circular.      

969
01:22:26,985 --> 01:22:29,821
     Hopper fills her columns       
     with gossip about Chaplin      

970
01:22:31,114 --> 01:22:33,533
           that's been fed          
         to her by the FBI.         

971
01:22:33,575 --> 01:22:35,076
 [Hedda] Charlie Chaplin dividing 

972
01:22:35,118 --> 01:22:36,578
     his dancing attention night    
 before last at the Persian Room- 

973
01:22:36,620 --> 01:22:38,955
         [Narrator] The FBI         
     then quotes those columns      

974
01:22:39,789 --> 01:22:41,291
   and its file against Chaplin.    

975
01:22:41,333 --> 01:22:42,626
     [Hedda] In the minds of...     

976
01:22:42,667 --> 01:22:45,629
     Charlie Chaplin is called      
     the debutante's delight.       

977
01:22:45,670 --> 01:22:47,964
           [Narrator] The           
       machine feeds itself.        

978
01:22:48,006 --> 01:22:51,051
          [Hedda] Regarding         
      communists in Hollywood.      

979
01:22:51,092 --> 01:22:52,969
     I found much (murmuring).      

980
01:22:53,011 --> 01:22:56,640
      [Narrator] The evidence,      
 however, remains circumstantial. 

981
01:22:59,851 --> 01:23:00,936
           Until one day-           

982
01:23:00,977 --> 01:23:02,437
       You know, there's one        
         man in particular-         

983
01:23:02,479 --> 01:23:07,567
     [Narrator] Hopper finds a      
   young woman called Joan Barry.   

984
01:23:07,609 --> 01:23:10,320
          (mournful music)          

985
01:23:14,282 --> 01:23:17,869
           In 1941, Joan            
        arrived in Hollywood        

986
01:23:17,911 --> 01:23:20,163
   as an aspiring young actress.    

987
01:23:25,835 --> 01:23:28,004
           Charlie Chaplin          
      took an interest in her.      

988
01:23:30,131 --> 01:23:32,050
          He said he could          
          make her a star.          

989
01:23:37,013 --> 01:23:41,184
        Now she's pregnant          
        and she needs help.         

990
01:23:46,064 --> 01:23:49,859
         Hopper and Hoover          
       sense an opportunity.        

991
01:23:49,901 --> 01:23:52,696
          (dramatic music)          

992
01:23:54,489 --> 01:23:57,784
    Chaplin is taken to court to    
    prove that he's the father.     

993
01:24:00,412 --> 01:24:03,498
       And Hopper ensures the       
        whole case plays out,       

994
01:24:03,540 --> 01:24:07,752
           week-by-week in          
         the tabloid press.         

995
01:24:07,794 --> 01:24:10,547
          (dramatic music)          

996
01:24:11,423 --> 01:24:13,883
          The prosecutor            
        tears into Chaplin.         

997
01:24:16,052 --> 01:24:18,263
           He reveals that          
        Chaplin forced Barry        

998
01:24:18,304 --> 01:24:20,390
 to have two backstreet abortions 

999
01:24:21,808 --> 01:24:25,228
     and accuses him of decades     
       of predatory behavior.       

1000
01:24:29,899 --> 01:24:32,110
    Three grueling trials later,    

1001
01:24:34,529 --> 01:24:37,240
      a blood test suggests he      
       may not be the father.       

1002
01:24:38,283 --> 01:24:40,368
           (somber music)           

1003
01:24:40,410 --> 01:24:41,453
         But it's too late.         

1004
01:24:43,621 --> 01:24:46,416
    The tide has finally turned.    

1005
01:24:46,458 --> 01:24:49,252
          (mournful music)          

1006
01:24:50,962 --> 01:24:54,799
   It's a great victory for the     
   right wing press and the FBI.    

1007
01:24:57,802 --> 01:25:00,805
        (people chattering)         

1008
01:25:03,808 --> 01:25:05,560
     But what about Joan Barry?     

1009
01:25:09,439 --> 01:25:10,774
     Where does this leave her?     

1010
01:25:12,609 --> 01:25:15,236
           (somber music)           

1011
01:25:16,404 --> 01:25:17,614
         A few years later,         

1012
01:25:18,782 --> 01:25:21,076
      she is committed to a         
       psychiatric hospital.        

1013
01:25:25,205 --> 01:25:26,998
 There's no further trace of her. 

1014
01:25:31,586 --> 01:25:37,008
      And now it's open season      
         on Charlie Chaplin.        

1015
01:25:37,050 --> 01:25:40,095
         (presses whirring)         

1016
01:26:24,097 --> 01:26:26,141
        (people chattering)         

1017
01:27:07,932 --> 01:27:10,560
           (somber music)           

1018
01:27:12,770 --> 01:27:16,232
      (camera flashes popping)      

1019
01:27:18,693 --> 01:27:22,322
       Now that it's ended        

1020
01:27:22,363 --> 01:27:26,868
       The romance is over        

1021
01:27:26,910 --> 01:27:30,205
         The passion gone         

1022
01:27:30,246 --> 01:27:35,251
    Like the wind and the rain    

1023
01:27:35,835 --> 01:27:38,671
        Gone are the joys         

1024
01:27:38,713 --> 01:27:43,009
          Of our madness          

1025
01:27:43,051 --> 01:27:46,262
       When I dream of you        

1026
01:27:46,846 --> 01:27:49,599
      [Narrator] In the midst       
      of all these scandals,        

1027
01:27:51,309 --> 01:27:52,393
        he's married again.         

1028
01:27:55,980 --> 01:27:57,440
           Oona O'Neill.            

1029
01:27:57,482 --> 01:28:02,445
           (gentle music)           
          (reel whirring)           

1030
01:28:06,074 --> 01:28:08,785
      [Geraldine] My mother was     
     so young when she met him.     

1031
01:28:11,537 --> 01:28:16,542
         She was 17 and he          
          was 52, I think.          

1032
01:28:19,837 --> 01:28:21,089
         They fell in love          

1033
01:28:21,130 --> 01:28:23,800
       and then as soon as she      
      turned 18, they married.      

1034
01:28:26,928 --> 01:28:29,764
          Everyone thought          
     that she was just a bimbo      

1035
01:28:29,806 --> 01:28:31,641
    and that she'd be gone soon.    

1036
01:28:33,935 --> 01:28:38,982
        (people chattering)         
         (birds chirping)           

1037
01:28:41,693 --> 01:28:43,278
 They were mad about each other.   

1038
01:28:47,573 --> 01:28:51,035
    [Eugene] The only opinion he    
    listened to was my mother's.    

1039
01:28:51,077 --> 01:28:55,790
      Just couldn't do nothing      
        without her approval.       

1040
01:28:55,832 --> 01:28:58,459
           (gentle music)           

1041
01:29:01,546 --> 01:29:02,797
       She was the sunshine.        

1042
01:29:04,882 --> 01:29:06,718
          She gave warmth.          

1043
01:29:06,759 --> 01:29:11,806
           (gentle music)           
          (birds chirping)          

1044
01:29:12,807 --> 01:29:15,685
         (leaves rustling)          

1045
01:29:17,937 --> 01:29:20,940
        (audience cheering)         

1046
01:29:25,945 --> 01:29:28,865
        [Narrator] But his          
      next film, "Limelight,"       

1047
01:29:30,074 --> 01:29:32,493
   betrays an underlying anxiety.   

1048
01:29:45,298 --> 01:29:48,009
          (pensive music)           

1049
01:29:49,302 --> 01:29:52,930
   In it, he's an aging comedian.   

1050
01:29:56,059 --> 01:29:59,228
     Once renowned for playing      
     a beloved Tramp character      

1051
01:30:01,522 --> 01:30:02,398
            whose public            

1052
01:30:06,069 --> 01:30:07,570
       has now abandoned him.       

1053
01:30:08,780 --> 01:30:11,449
          (pensive music)           

1054
01:30:24,045 --> 01:30:27,090
        (ship horn blaring)         

1055
01:30:32,220 --> 01:30:35,098
        (people chattering)         

1056
01:30:35,139 --> 01:30:38,768
      On September 17th, 1952,      

1057
01:30:39,894 --> 01:30:42,563
         the Chaplin family         
      depart the United States      

1058
01:30:42,605 --> 01:30:44,607
 to attend the European premiere. 

1059
01:30:45,858 --> 01:30:48,736
         (birds squawking)          

1060
01:30:52,657 --> 01:30:55,410
     Two days into the voyage-      

1061
01:30:55,451 --> 01:30:57,578
          (dramatic music)          

1062
01:30:57,620 --> 01:30:58,955
     [Reporter] The story which     
 makes the most sensational news   

1063
01:30:58,996 --> 01:31:01,165
        is the departure of         
    Charlie Chaplin for London.     

1064
01:31:01,207 --> 01:31:03,292
       Immigration officials        
       are prompt to suggest        

1065
01:31:03,334 --> 01:31:05,795
   that the great comic may have    
   difficulty getting back here     

1066
01:31:05,837 --> 01:31:07,046
        if he wants to come.        

1067
01:31:07,088 --> 01:31:08,214
        [Reporter] The United       
      States Attorney General,      

1068
01:31:08,256 --> 01:31:09,966
        James P. McGranery,         

1069
01:31:10,007 --> 01:31:10,842
   heard that Chaplin had been--    

1070
01:31:10,883 --> 01:31:12,718
   Charged with making statements   

1071
01:31:12,760 --> 01:31:17,265
        that would indicate a       
     leering, sneering attitude     

1072
01:31:19,016 --> 01:31:22,186
       toward a country whose       
        gracious hospitality        

1073
01:31:23,354 --> 01:31:24,564
         has enriched him.          

1074
01:31:24,605 --> 01:31:25,940
       [Reporter] And then at       
       the Justice Department       

1075
01:31:25,982 --> 01:31:28,484
     decided that Chaplin could     
      not re-enter the country,     

1076
01:31:28,526 --> 01:31:32,405
        unless he could prove       
      quote "His moral worth."      

1077
01:31:32,447 --> 01:31:35,199
          (dramatic music)          

1078
01:31:39,537 --> 01:31:41,622
           (bright music)           

1079
01:31:41,664 --> 01:31:44,500
         (birds squawking)          

1080
01:31:50,715 --> 01:31:53,176
        [Narrator] This has         
     been years in the making.      

1081
01:31:56,554 --> 01:31:58,264
          His enemies have          
         tried everything.          

1082
01:32:02,185 --> 01:32:03,394
          But in the end,           

1083
01:32:06,063 --> 01:32:07,648
 they just wait until he leaves.   

1084
01:32:08,983 --> 01:32:14,030
          (dramatic music)          
         (train whistling)          

1085
01:32:24,916 --> 01:32:26,959
         Chaplin sells his          
          Hollywood studio          

1086
01:32:28,169 --> 01:32:30,213
    and retreats to Switzerland.    

1087
01:32:30,254 --> 01:32:33,049
          (dramatic music)          

1088
01:32:41,265 --> 01:32:43,893
        He moves the family         
        into a grand estate         

1089
01:32:46,103 --> 01:32:48,022
        ringed by the Alps.         

1090
01:32:48,064 --> 01:32:50,816
          (mournful music)          

1091
01:32:56,781 --> 01:32:59,825
        (people chattering)         

1092
01:33:01,285 --> 01:33:04,121
      [Geraldine] The sentence      
    I remember most, him saying.    

1093
01:33:09,460 --> 01:33:12,088
   "I'm not bitter about America.   

1094
01:33:13,464 --> 01:33:15,925
   I'm not bitter about America.    

1095
01:33:17,510 --> 01:33:21,597
       Bitter about America?        
   I'm not bitter about America."   

1096
01:33:23,099 --> 01:33:27,770
      He said it so many times      
        one begins to wonder.       

1097
01:33:27,812 --> 01:33:30,439
           (somber music)           

1098
01:33:37,822 --> 01:33:42,785
     [Narrator] And Chaplin is      
 forced to adapt to his new role   

1099
01:33:44,745 --> 01:33:45,788
            as a father.            

1100
01:33:47,832 --> 01:33:50,543
          (film whirring)           

1101
01:33:53,296 --> 01:33:55,464
       [Geraldine] My father        
      wasn't Charlie Chaplin.       

1102
01:34:00,094 --> 01:34:01,721
          I knew they were          
          the same person,          

1103
01:34:02,930 --> 01:34:04,557
   but they looked nothing alike.   

1104
01:34:08,227 --> 01:34:10,229
 Except when he had an audience,   

1105
01:34:10,271 --> 01:34:12,148
        then he would become        
          Charlie Chaplin,          

1106
01:34:14,025 --> 01:34:16,444
      that other man, the man       
      that was on the screen.       

1107
01:34:19,530 --> 01:34:21,699
           (gentle music)           

1108
01:34:21,741 --> 01:34:23,326
      [Narrator] This is the        
      Charlie Chaplin we find       

1109
01:34:23,367 --> 01:34:24,994
    in the family's home movies.    

1110
01:34:32,043 --> 01:34:33,794
    A cheerful clown who appears    

1111
01:34:33,836 --> 01:34:35,713
       the moment the camera        
          starts rolling.           

1112
01:34:37,465 --> 01:34:40,051
           (gentle music)           

1113
01:34:50,311 --> 01:34:52,063
   [Jane] My one wish growing up    

1114
01:34:53,481 --> 01:34:58,444
    was to have one conversation    
       alone with my father.        

1115
01:35:00,029 --> 01:35:02,531
           (gentle music)           

1116
01:35:04,033 --> 01:35:05,368
        Just the two of us.         

1117
01:35:10,289 --> 01:35:13,834
        He was inaccessible         
         in so many ways.           

1118
01:35:16,504 --> 01:35:18,047
       Your father's working.       

1119
01:35:19,215 --> 01:35:20,216
         Don't disturb him.         

1120
01:35:23,302 --> 01:35:25,221
    He'll lose his inspiration.     

1121
01:35:29,141 --> 01:35:33,938
     Our world revolved around      
      my father's well being.       

1122
01:35:33,979 --> 01:35:36,565
           (gentle music)           

1123
01:35:41,529 --> 01:35:45,741
       [Michael] I was kind of      
      frightened of my father.      

1124
01:35:52,289 --> 01:35:54,417
         He was so powerful         
         in a certain way.          

1125
01:35:59,046 --> 01:36:02,258
    You couldn't argue with him     
   because he couldn't be wrong.    

1126
01:36:06,971 --> 01:36:09,849
         Everyone who gets          
         too close to him,          

1127
01:36:09,890 --> 01:36:11,434
     he'll end up suffocating.      

1128
01:36:14,812 --> 01:36:15,938
        He couldn't help it.        

1129
01:36:20,234 --> 01:36:22,236
       That's why I left home       
          at an early age.          

1130
01:36:24,029 --> 01:36:27,158
 And I think my sisters did too,   
             you know.              

1131
01:36:28,075 --> 01:36:30,786
          (pensive music)           

1132
01:36:44,341 --> 01:36:46,802
         [Narrator] Chaplin         
     makes two films in exile.      

1133
01:36:51,849 --> 01:36:54,477
    But neither is the comeback     
           he hopes for.            

1134
01:36:55,686 --> 01:36:58,314
           (somber music)           

1135
01:37:03,152 --> 01:37:04,570
     [Geraldine] He said to me,     

1136
01:37:07,406 --> 01:37:08,824
        "I was very famous.         

1137
01:37:10,367 --> 01:37:11,911
     I used to be very famous."     

1138
01:37:16,207 --> 01:37:17,416
       It did matter to him.        

1139
01:37:19,585 --> 01:37:21,086
   Of course it mattered to him.    

1140
01:37:24,340 --> 01:37:25,800
       He needed an audience.       

1141
01:37:27,176 --> 01:37:28,177
         He was a comedian.         

1142
01:37:30,805 --> 01:37:32,389
       You need an audience.        

1143
01:37:32,431 --> 01:37:35,017
           (somber music)           

1144
01:37:37,228 --> 01:37:38,687
       [Charlie] Correction.        

1145
01:37:38,729 --> 01:37:40,815
    It strikes me that happiness    
    is becoming more difficult.     

1146
01:37:40,856 --> 01:37:42,733
           New paragraph.           

1147
01:37:42,775 --> 01:37:44,151
          To write a book.          

1148
01:37:44,193 --> 01:37:46,362
      A great controversy was       
 going on in the press, comma...   

1149
01:37:46,403 --> 01:37:49,949
     In this day and age we...      
             ...comma.              

1150
01:37:49,990 --> 01:37:52,243
 Paragraph...of unconsciousness.   

1151
01:37:54,078 --> 01:37:56,705
           (gentle music)           

1152
01:38:08,342 --> 01:38:10,928
         [Narrator] In the          
        pages of his memoir,        

1153
01:38:10,970 --> 01:38:12,930
    Chaplin revisits, once more,    

1154
01:38:12,972 --> 01:38:15,015
           the streets he           
         wandered as a boy.         

1155
01:38:17,142 --> 01:38:19,728
           (gentle music)           

1156
01:38:23,691 --> 01:38:26,026
           The streets he           
       haunts as an old man.        

1157
01:38:27,278 --> 01:38:29,989
          (pensive music)           

1158
01:38:38,956 --> 01:38:41,417
     The streets he returned to     
           time and again,          

1159
01:38:43,460 --> 01:38:44,461
           as the Tramp.            

1160
01:38:55,014 --> 01:38:56,473
   His old Lambeth neighborhood,    

1161
01:38:59,685 --> 01:39:01,937
        he rebuilt it in his        
         Hollywood studio.          

1162
01:39:02,980 --> 01:39:05,691
          (pensive music)           

1163
01:39:07,109 --> 01:39:09,945
         (birds squawking)          

1164
01:39:15,492 --> 01:39:17,077
   The gates of Killington Park,    

1165
01:39:19,371 --> 01:39:22,124
      here Chaplin met for a        
     date with his first love.      

1166
01:39:25,336 --> 01:39:27,755
        It's where the Tramp        
       meets the flower girl.       

1167
01:39:29,214 --> 01:39:31,800
           (gentle music)           

1168
01:39:33,385 --> 01:39:36,138
           And the attic            
     of No. 3 Pownall Terrace.      

1169
01:39:40,017 --> 01:39:43,145
    Where young Charlie watched     
   his mother's health ebb away.    

1170
01:39:45,522 --> 01:39:48,192
          (pensive music)           

1171
01:39:51,445 --> 01:39:54,198
           It's the attic           
         room in "The Kid."         

1172
01:39:55,407 --> 01:39:58,160
          (dramatic music)          

1173
01:40:03,916 --> 01:40:05,751
          (crowd cheering)          

1174
01:40:05,793 --> 01:40:08,504
       And if Chaplin isn't         
      finished with the past,       

1175
01:40:10,839 --> 01:40:14,301
         the past certainly         
      isn't finished with him.      

1176
01:40:14,718 --> 01:40:20,015
           (upbeat music)           
      (people faintly singing)      

1177
01:40:25,396 --> 01:40:30,359
   When Hollywood stages a grand    
   reconciliation at the Oscars,    

1178
01:40:32,152 --> 01:40:35,197
       it seems like a bid to       
        turn back the clock.        

1179
01:40:37,032 --> 01:40:42,037
          (crowd cheering)          
      (people singing faintly)      

1180
01:40:45,916 --> 01:40:49,003
           (gentle music)           

1181
01:40:49,044 --> 01:40:51,422
    When he's knighted in 1975,     

1182
01:40:53,257 --> 01:40:56,552
   people are still searching for   
    traces of the little fellow.    

1183
01:40:57,970 --> 01:40:59,346
       [Reporter] Sir Charles       
          left the palace,          

1184
01:40:59,388 --> 01:41:01,056
     not with his famous cane,      

1185
01:41:01,098 --> 01:41:03,058
         but now leaning on         
       a thick walking stick.       

1186
01:41:03,100 --> 01:41:05,978
       He's 86 next month and       
       he sat in a wheelchair       

1187
01:41:06,020 --> 01:41:07,312
      as the queen dubbed him.      

1188
01:41:07,354 --> 01:41:08,897
 [Narrator] Is there anyone left   

1189
01:41:09,940 --> 01:41:14,611
        who can look at one         
     without seeing the other?      

1190
01:41:14,653 --> 01:41:17,364
           (gentle music)           

1191
01:42:28,936 --> 01:42:31,522
           (gentle music)           

1192
01:42:39,988 --> 01:42:42,741
      [Narrator] When you ask       
   for the real Charlie Chaplin,    

1193
01:42:45,494 --> 01:42:46,870
      a thousand voices reply.      

1194
01:42:48,664 --> 01:42:49,706
      [Interviewer] Take care.      

1195
01:42:50,833 --> 01:42:53,585
          (Effie laughing)          

1196
01:42:58,132 --> 01:43:00,509
        [Narrator] Some are         
        louder than others.         

1197
01:43:08,725 --> 01:43:13,730
      (camera flashes popping)      
         (people chattering)        

1198
01:43:14,690 --> 01:43:16,150
    [Narrator] Some are hidden.     

1199
01:43:20,737 --> 01:43:23,490
     Some struggle to be heard.     

1200
01:43:27,786 --> 01:43:28,662
             And others             

1201
01:43:31,707 --> 01:43:32,875
           remain silent.           

1202
01:43:34,084 --> 01:43:37,546
          (mournful music)          

1203
01:43:37,588 --> 01:43:40,132
           (gentle music)           

1204
01:43:45,429 --> 01:43:49,391
   [Geraldine] I think if anyone    
     could pin my father down,      

1205
01:43:49,433 --> 01:43:52,352
        could understand him        

1206
01:43:52,394 --> 01:43:54,062
         it was my mother.          

1207
01:43:58,275 --> 01:44:00,068
 My mother's voice doesn't exist. 

1208
01:44:03,155 --> 01:44:04,406
     There's nothing with her.      

1209
01:44:10,537 --> 01:44:12,789
      No recorded interviews.       

1210
01:44:12,831 --> 01:44:15,417
           (gentle music)           

1211
01:44:16,710 --> 01:44:19,046
         Certainly she kept         
    journals. She kept diaries.     

1212
01:44:24,551 --> 01:44:27,262
       Writing was, I think,        
        her way of escaping.        

1213
01:44:29,932 --> 01:44:33,268
         Writing furiously,         
       writing continuously.        

1214
01:44:43,320 --> 01:44:44,529
         In her last years,         

1215
01:44:46,823 --> 01:44:48,825
         she spent a lot of         
          time destroying,          

1216
01:44:51,662 --> 01:44:53,288
 destroying what she had written. 

1217
01:44:54,998 --> 01:44:57,542
           (gentle music)           

1218
01:44:58,585 --> 01:45:00,045
   She was probably very lonely.    

1219
01:45:05,550 --> 01:45:07,052
           I could imagine          
      it would be quite lonely      

1220
01:45:07,094 --> 01:45:08,804
         being the wife of          
          Charlie Chaplin.          

1221
01:45:14,268 --> 01:45:15,310
          (film crackling)          

1222
01:45:20,565 --> 01:45:22,317
 [Jane] That big wish that I had, 

1223
01:45:23,819 --> 01:45:27,322
        to have conversation        
       alone with my father.        

1224
01:45:27,364 --> 01:45:29,992
           (gentle music)           

1225
01:45:30,909 --> 01:45:32,286
         I forgot about it.         

1226
01:45:33,537 --> 01:45:35,622
        I thought, "Oh, you         
     know, this is ridiculous.      

1227
01:45:35,664 --> 01:45:37,374
   It's just never gonna happen."   

1228
01:45:41,503 --> 01:45:46,508
       And when I dropped it,       
      that's when it happened.      

1229
01:45:49,720 --> 01:45:52,014
 Conversation alone with my dad.   

1230
01:46:02,482 --> 01:46:04,860
   I had grown up with the icon.    

1231
01:46:05,652 --> 01:46:07,404
         (birds squawking)          

1232
01:46:07,446 --> 01:46:10,699
       But the man, I had no        
       idea who the man was.        

1233
01:46:14,202 --> 01:46:18,373
        He spoke about having       
       huge amounts of doubt.       

1234
01:46:22,669 --> 01:46:26,506
      He said that he had had       
       doubts all his life.         

1235
01:46:26,548 --> 01:46:29,176
           (gentle music)           

1236
01:46:33,930 --> 01:46:38,185
          He accomplished           
         his life's dream,          

1237
01:46:40,187 --> 01:46:43,607
     but I don't think he ever      
    really got over his doubts.     

1238
01:46:45,359 --> 01:46:50,405
           (gentle music)           
         (engines rumbling)         

1239
01:46:53,075 --> 01:46:56,703
     Does one ever really get       
     over where you come from?      

1240
01:47:01,416 --> 01:47:03,085
          I don't think it          
          ever leaves you.          

1241
01:47:04,461 --> 01:47:07,255
          (dramatic music)          

1242
01:47:16,181 --> 01:47:18,892
          (reel rattling)           

1243
01:47:23,438 --> 01:47:26,191
          (mournful music)          

1244
01:47:33,448 --> 01:47:36,118
          (pensive music)           

1245
01:47:53,385 --> 01:47:56,138
          (dramatic music)          

1246
01:48:20,579 --> 01:48:21,997
           (gentle music)           

1247
01:48:22,038 --> 01:48:23,957
    If you only shut your trap    

1248
01:48:23,999 --> 01:48:25,584
  I will tell you about a chap  

1249
01:48:25,625 --> 01:48:28,837
         That was broken up        
    against it and threadbare      

1250
01:48:28,879 --> 01:48:30,755
          He was not the           
        kind that shirked          

1251
01:48:30,797 --> 01:48:32,549
  He was looking hard for work  

1252
01:48:32,591 --> 01:48:36,511
       But he heard the same       
      old story everywhere         

1253
01:48:36,553 --> 01:48:38,555
        Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,       
        keep on a-trampin'         

1254
01:48:38,597 --> 01:48:39,931
       Tramp, Tramp, Tramp        

1255
01:48:39,973 --> 01:48:43,560
    Nothin' doing here for you    

1256
01:48:43,602 --> 01:48:44,811
    If I catch you round again    

1257
01:48:44,853 --> 01:48:46,771
         You will wear the         
         ball and chain            

1258
01:48:46,813 --> 01:48:47,898
         Keep on tramping         

1259
01:48:47,939 --> 01:48:50,275
          That's the best          
         thing you can do          

1260
01:48:50,317 --> 01:48:51,860
          He walked up and         
         down the street           

1261
01:48:51,902 --> 01:48:53,612
           Til the shoes           
        fell off his feet          

1262
01:48:53,653 --> 01:48:57,282
       In the house he spied       
       a lady cooking stew         

1263
01:48:57,324 --> 01:48:59,117
    And he said, how do you do    

1264
01:48:59,159 --> 01:49:00,702
  May I chop some wood for you  

1265
01:49:00,744 --> 01:49:04,539
       What the lady told him      
       made him feel so blue       

1266
01:49:04,581 --> 01:49:07,209
        Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,       
        keep on a-trampin'         

1267
01:49:07,250 --> 01:49:08,126
       Tramp, Tramp, Tramp        

1268
01:49:08,168 --> 01:49:11,254
    Nothin' doing here for you    

1269
01:49:11,296 --> 01:49:12,881
    If I catch you round again    

1270
01:49:12,923 --> 01:49:14,674
         You will wear the         
         ball and chain            

1271
01:49:14,716 --> 01:49:15,800
         Keep on trampin'         

1272
01:49:15,842 --> 01:49:18,220
          That's the best          
         thing you can do          

1273
01:49:18,261 --> 01:49:20,055
          Cross the street         
         the sign he read          

1274
01:49:20,096 --> 01:49:21,681
    Work for Jesus, so it said    

1275
01:49:21,723 --> 01:49:23,558
           And he said,            
        here is my chance          

1276
01:49:23,600 --> 01:49:25,185
         I'll surely try          

1277
01:49:25,227 --> 01:49:26,853
           And he kneeled          
          upon the floor           

1278
01:49:26,895 --> 01:49:28,939
           Til his knees           
         got rather sore           

1279
01:49:28,980 --> 01:49:32,651
        But at eating time he      
      heard the preacher cry       

1280
01:49:32,692 --> 01:49:34,236
        Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,       
        keep on a-trampin'         

1281
01:49:34,277 --> 01:49:36,029
       Tramp, Tramp, Tramp        

1282
01:49:36,071 --> 01:49:39,241
    Nothin' doing here for you    

1283
01:49:39,282 --> 01:49:40,867
    If I catch you round again    

1284
01:49:40,909 --> 01:49:42,702
         You will wear the         
         ball and chain            

1285
01:49:42,744 --> 01:49:43,828
         Keep on trampin'         

1286
01:49:43,870 --> 01:49:46,164
          That's the best          
         thing you can do          

1287
01:49:46,206 --> 01:49:47,832
  Down the street he met a cop  

1288
01:49:47,874 --> 01:49:49,584
  And the copper made him stop  

1289
01:49:49,626 --> 01:49:53,171
       And he asked him, when      
      did you blow into town       

1290
01:49:53,213 --> 01:49:54,673
  Come with me up to the judge  

1291
01:49:54,714 --> 01:49:56,383
  the judge, he said, oh fudge  

1292
01:49:56,424 --> 01:50:00,428
      Bums that have no money      
       needn't come around         

1293
01:50:00,470 --> 01:50:02,013
        Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,       
        keep on a-trampin'         

1294
01:50:02,055 --> 01:50:03,765
       Tramp, Tramp, Tramp        

1295
01:50:03,807 --> 01:50:06,851
    Nothin' doing here for you    

1296
01:50:06,893 --> 01:50:08,562
    If I catch you round again    

1297
01:50:08,603 --> 01:50:10,188
         You will wear the         
         ball and chain            

1298
01:50:10,230 --> 01:50:11,314
         Keep on trampin'         

1299
01:50:11,356 --> 01:50:13,900
          That's the best          
         thing you can do          

1300
01:50:13,942 --> 01:50:15,527
    Finally came the happy day    

1301
01:50:15,569 --> 01:50:17,737
  When his life did pass away    

1302
01:50:17,779 --> 01:50:20,782
         He was sure he'd go       
      to heaven when he died       

1303
01:50:20,824 --> 01:50:22,909
        When did he reached        
         the pearly gates          

1304
01:50:22,951 --> 01:50:24,452
  Saint Peter, mean old saint    

1305
01:50:24,494 --> 01:50:28,290
     Slammed the gate right in     
    his face and loudly cried      

1306
01:50:28,331 --> 01:50:30,959
        Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,       
        keep on a-trampin'         

1307
01:50:31,001 --> 01:50:31,960
       Tramp, Tramp, Tramp        

1308
01:50:32,002 --> 01:50:34,963
    Nothin' doing here for you    

1309
01:50:35,005 --> 01:50:36,756
    If I catch you round again    

1310
01:50:36,798 --> 01:50:38,466
         You will wear the         
         ball and chain            

1311
01:50:38,508 --> 01:50:39,593
         Keep on trampin'         

1312
01:50:39,634 --> 01:50:42,637
          That's the best          
         thing you can do          

1313
01:50:42,679 --> 01:50:43,763
         Keep on trampin'         

1314
01:50:43,805 --> 01:50:47,809
          That's the best          
         thing you can do          

1315
01:50:51,521 --> 01:50:54,274
          (dramatic music)          

1316
01:51:03,033 --> 01:51:06,202
       (dark dramatic music)        

1317
01:51:46,409 --> 01:51:49,204
          (dramatic music)          

1318
01:51:52,540 --> 01:51:55,293
          (dramatic music)          

1319
01:52:04,928 --> 01:52:08,098
       (dark dramatic music)        

1320
01:52:30,286 --> 01:52:33,081
          (dramatic music)          

1321
01:52:45,885 --> 01:52:48,596
           (gentle music)