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Title

  • Modern times

Summary

  • The Little Tramp is an oppressed assembly-line factory worker who is used as a guinea pig for his employer's test of a new "Automatic Feeding Machine". He battles it out with technology, unemployment, jail, burglars, demanding customers and bosses. In the midst of his tribulations, he meets up with the girl of his dreams, "The Gamin". They win some and lose more but, at the end, they walk undaunted into the sunrise.

Names

  • Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977, direction, production, writing, music, cast.
  • Goddard, Paulette, 1911-1990, cast.
  • Bergman, Henry, 1870-1946, cast.
  • Sandford, Stanley, 1894-1961, cast.
  • Conklin, Chester, 1888-1971, cast.
  • Mann, Hank, 1887-1971, cast.
  • Garcia, Allan, 1887-1938, cast.
  • LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
  • Roy Export Company Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • United States : United Artists, 1936 ; United States : RCA SelectaVision, [1982]

Headings

  • -  Work--Drama
  • -  Machinery in the workplace--Drama
  • -  Factories--Drama
  • -  Working class--Drama
  • -  Automation--Social aspects--Drama
  • -  Automation--Economic aspects--Drama
  • -  Depressions--1929--Drama
  • -  Tramps--Drama

Genre

  • Comedies
  • Sociological films and programs
  • Features
  • Videodiscs

Notes

  • -  LP6124 U.S. Copyright Office
  • -  Copyright: Charles Chaplin; 5Feb36; LP6124.
  • -  Copyright notice on videodisc jacket: RCA Corporation ; 1982.
  • -  Assistant directors, Carter DeHaven and Henry Bergman ; music composed by Charlie Chaplin ; photography by Rollie Totheroh, Ira Morgan ; settings by Charles D. Hall, Russell Spencer.
  • -  Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Stanley Sandford, Chester Conklin.
  • -  Videodisc is reissue copy; reissue date is copyright date on videodisc jacket.
  • -  Sound track consists of music and effects; dialog is on intertitles.
  • -  Parts of summary from the AFI catalog, feature films, 1931-1940.
  • -  On disc jacket: RCA 02033.
  • -  This film (arch pos) was selected for the National Film Registry.
  • -  Archival positive to be used as projection print per P. Spehr, Assistant Chief, M/B/RS, 5/3/91.
  • -  LC also holds a version with additional material on this title.
  • -  Sources used: New York times film reviews, 2/6/36; Variety film reviews, 2/12/36; videodisc jacket.
  • -  Received: ca. 1984; viewing copy; purchase; LC Purchase Collection.
  • -  Received: 5/3/91; arch pos; gift; Roy Export Company Collection.
  • -  Updated by qu26; arch pos screened for credits only, videodisc not viewed. Updated by qu22, 3-26-96.

Medium

  • 1 videodisc of 1 (CED) (ca. 87 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 12 in. viewing copy.
  • 10 reels of 10 on 5 (7809 ft.) : sd., b&w ; 35 mm. arch pos.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • DAA 0819 (viewing copy)
  • FQA 7568-7572 (arch pos)

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 91728139

Online Format

  • web page
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Goddard, Paulette, Cast, Henry Bergman, Stanley Sandford, Chester Conklin, Hank Mann, Allan Garcia, Lc Purchase Collection, and Roy Export Company Collection. Modern Times. directeds by Chaplin, Charlie, Ectionuction, Writing, Music, Cast, produceds by Chaplin, Charlie, Ectionuction, Writing, Music, Cast [United States: United Artists, ; United States: RCA SelectaVision, 1982, 1982] Image. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/91728139/.

APA citation style:

Goddard, P., Bergman, H., Sandford, S., Conklin, C., Mann, H., Garcia, A. [...] Roy Export Company Collection. (1982) Modern Times. Chaplin, C., dir, Chaplin, C., prod [United States: United Artists, ; United States: RCA SelectaVision, 1982] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/91728139/.

MLA citation style:

Goddard, Paulette, Cast, et al. Modern Times. dir by Chaplin, Charlie, Ectionuction, Writing, Music, Cast, prod by Chaplin, Charlie, Ectionuction, Writing, Music, Cast [United States: United Artists, ; United States: RCA SelectaVision, 1982, 1982] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/91728139/>.