Chaplin
Born Charles Spencer Chaplin in South London, during the reign of Queen Victoria, the world's "first international movie star" continues to delight and fascinate audiences today (Milton 1). In particular, Chaplin's invention of a stalwart character that remained his trademark "tramp" touches on deep subconscious elements in the viewer and reflects broader social, psychological, and historical trends. Although he grew up in the slums, Chaplin's mother was a music hall singer who took young Charlie with her to the theater to hear her performances and the other acts in the show. Thus, young Charlie was introduced to the power of performance art. Chaplin also developed an ear for music in this way, listening to as well as observing the theater performances in London to which he was privy. By the time Chaplin was nine years old, he was a multitalented performer who was on his way to America with a…...

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Works Cited

Chaplin, Charlie. The Great Dictator. [Feature Film], 1940.

Chaplin, Charlie. The Kid. [Feature Film]. 1921.

Chaplin, Charlie. Modern Times. [Feature Film]. 1936.

Export, Roy. "Chaplin and Music: A Music Hall Childhood." Charlie Chaplin: Official Website. Retrieved online:  http://www.charliechaplin.com/en/biography/articles/26-Chaplin-Music

) it was funny, but it was sad, too, and some people were touched by Chaplin's work, and understood the underlying message that people were suffering, and there were people who could do something about it. Historian Huff continues, "Chaplin's understanding of and love for the type of underdog he portrays on the screen and for humanity in general is obvious from his many motion pictures. He himself wrote: 'I find unsuccessful people much more likable and interesting'" (Huff 292). Bulosan's writing had much the same message. He reached a more intellectual audience with his works published in the New Yorker and Harper's Bazaar, but his message was the same, people were suffering, and there were others who could do something about it (Editors). Both men knew their audiences, and understood their beliefs could be widely spread if they reached their audiences effectively.
Because these two men were so effective at…...

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References

Editors. "Carlos Bulosan." Infoplease.com. 2004. 16 Dec. 2004.  http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0880449.html 

Huff, Theodore. Charlie Chaplin. New York: Arno Press, 1972.

Charlie Chaplin and Modern TimesWith industrialization came a whole slew of social, economic, and political problems in America. Migration increased as people from other parts of the world came to the land of the free seeking opportunities. Urban squalor increased as those opportunities were loaded with pitfalls and traps. Machines replaced human labor in many ways, and people without skills often went without work. Most movies in Hollywood at the time focused on providing distractions from all these problems: the silent films of Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd did not delve into social commentary on the problem of modernity. But one comic actor of the silent era did produce films that could be called critiques of modern timesin fact, he even starred in a film entitled Modern Times that both lamented modernization and drew attention to class disadvantage.[footnoteRef:2] That actor was Charlie Chaplin. Charlie Chaplin used a light form of…...

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Works Cited

Berish, Andrew. “Great Depression, the.” Grove Music Online. 25 Jul. 2013.

Crook, Tim. “Vocalizing the Angels of Mons: Audio Dramas as Propaganda in the Great

War of 1914 to 1918.” Societies 4, no. 2 (2014): 180-221. Proquest.    https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/vocalising-angels-mons-audio-dramas-as-propaganda/docview/1545040054/se-2 .http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc4020180 .

Chaplin's role in the movie is a cog on the assembly line where he fixes nuts to moving machinery parts. Indeed, one of the funniest moments is the sheer panic when his work is out of sequence and he attempts to hide the nuts that he has to assemble but cannot keep up with the speed of the factory process.

Chaplin is also making another important, perhaps a prescient point. This is reminiscent of George Orwell's caution against the ever-increasing role of "Big Brother" that was the primary theme of several of his novels. In Modern Times, the factory boss uses two video cameras to monitor his workers and even something as natural as a smoke break is met by a severe reprimand.

In conclusion therefore, Modern Times is a comedy classic; but it also carries some very…...

It is a humorous take on the time of unrest between the two World Wars, when Germany smarting from the ignominious defeat after the First World War allowed Hitler to take charge. This led to the large scale extermination of the Jewish people. This film is about what might have been if Hitler had a change of heart. This film also underhandedly mentions the Great Depression. In the last speech of the movie, the Charlie Chaplin character, the barber, who is mistaken for Adenoid Hynkel, bemoans greed and the loss of democarcy. This Jewish barber also calls for peace and for soldiers to drop their weapons and fight against those who would enslave them and force them to resort to untold instances of violence. The fact that this film was made in 1940 is remarkable and shows great courage on the part of Chaplin. The war was still five…...

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..There is reason for concern, therefore, when aggressive acts are presented in a humorous context in the media" (622).
Although it is intended to refer to society and its misdemeanor, satire cannot be considered to be offensive, since there is a small probability that it will produce any resentment in people. A good example of the American society giving birth to something that is funny and enjoyable, despite its satirical character, is Charlie Chaplin. In times when movies were something new to the American public, the English actor succeeded in making it addicted to him and to his movies. His merit is also largely owed to the scriptwriters and to the movie directors that invested hard work in making the respective movies. Even with his obvious success among the American public, there still are a number of critics believing that the characters played by Charlie Chaplin had been too vulgar for…...

Humor in 3 Films
Comedy has often provided the perfect vehicle for social and political commentary. Three films that use comedy to as the basis for social and political commentary are Duck Soup (1933), The Great Dictator (1940), and Some Like It Hot (1959). Duck Soup, The Great Dictator, and Some Like It Hot provide commentary on social and political issues, as well as on issues of sex and gender.

Duck Soup is a Marx Brothers classic directed by Leo McCarey in which Groucho Marx plays Rufus T. Firefly, a man who is appointed to the position of Freedonia, a small country that has recently gone bankrupt (Duck Soup). Firefly's appointment as leader is made as part of an agreement between undisclosed members of the country in exchange for continued financial support from Mrs. Gloria Teasdale, a wealthy widow. At the same time, Freedonia's neighbor, Sylvania, is plotting to take over the…...

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Works Cited

Duck Soup. Directed by Leo McCarey. United States: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Netflix Instant

Streaming. Web. 1 March 2013.

The Great Dictator. Directed by Charles Chaplin. United States: United Artists, 1940. DVD.

Polsson, Ken. "Chronology of World History." 14 February 2013. Web. 1 March 2013.

Conclusions -- It becomes immediately clear that the art of the silent film depended on three major elements: smooth editing, appropriate use of subtitles, and actors who were able to use their eyes and movement to communicate or "play to the camera." It was surprising that only one of the films viewed seemed "primitive," and that was only the initial parts of Gertie. By the time we get to The ink, there has been an obvious improvement in camera techniques and the ability to film from different angles and heights, even if the camera is stable. In addition, the vaudevillian arm and comedy of The ink is classic. It is also interesting to note that the subject matter, while varied, seemed far less censored that what we would come to expect in later Hollywood years -- we see prostitution, abject poverty, criminal behavior, sexual innuendos with fairy creatures, and a…...

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REFERENCES and WORKS CONSULTED

Bowser, E. (1990). The Transformation of Cinema, 1907-1915. Scribners.

Clegg, B. (2007). The Man Who Stopped Time. Joseph Henry Press.

Wexman, V. And J. Wllis. (2006). A History of Film. Allyn and Bacon.

Film Links:

For example, the popular sitcoms Good Times and Sanford and Son showed working class neighborhoods and the problems of violence, crime, and social oppression, and yet how humor always finds its way into these character's lives.
The 1970s also brought about a new late night live comedy show, called Saturday Night Live. This show had its first run from 1975 to 1980, and made political humor the centerpiece of Saturday night television. The original cast consisted of Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, George Coe, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, Michael O'Donoghue and Gilda Radner, a diverse mix of young comedians from around New York City. Saturday Night Live is famous for its portrayals of U.S. Presidents, from Gerald Ford to Barack Obama, and has helped to shape Americans impressions of how these presidents have reacted to events in the world. (Boskin, 46) Saturday Night Live created a demanding…...

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Works Cited

Boskin, J. (1997). Rebellious laughter: People's humor in american culture. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.

Dudden, a. (1989). American humor. (p. 184). New York: Oxford University Press.

Terror, Imperialism, And Totalitarianism
Imperialism is defined in the abstract, quite often, as the ideology of 'carrying the white man's burden,' in other words, of carrying the white cultural burden of civilization to the native or darker peoples of the world. But in practice, imperialism often has a less lofty goal and terror rather than teaching is the method used to enforce imperialism's 'laws' and values of social and political control. In the past, such as in French-controlled Algiers, depicted in the 1965 film directed by Pontecorvo "The Battle of Algiers," imperialism is often enforced through a series of dominating policies or military actions by a stronger European nation. One country seeks to exert its control over another country or territory, often to gain an economic or political advantage in a particular region.

In the film, the Algerian people fight long and hard to wrest control over their own territory once again.…...

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Works Cited

Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. 1958.

"Battle of Algiers." Directed by Pontecorvo. 1965.

Camus, Alberto. "Caligula." 1936.

"The Great Dictator." Directed by Charlie Chaplin. 1940.

movie industry in America has been controlled by some of the monolithic companies which not only provided a place for making the movies, but also made the movies themselves and then distributed it throughout the entire country. These are movie companies and their entire image revolved around the number of participants of their films. People who wanted to see the movies being made had to go to the studios in order to see them. They made movies in a profitable manner for the sake of the studios, but placed the entire industry under their control and dominated over it. The discussion here is about some of those famous studios inclusive of that of names like Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Culver, RKO, Paramount Studios, Warner Bros, 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Studios, Universal Studios, Raleigh Studio, Hollywood Center Studio, Sunset Gower Studio, Ren-Mar Studios, Charlie Chaplin Studios and now, Manhattan Beach…...

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"What better way to annoy the Hollywood liberals than to remind them every single day that

George W. Bush is STILL the President?" Retrieved from Accessed 15 September, 2005https://www.donationreport.com/init/controller/ProcessEntryCmd?key=O8S0T5C8U2

"What's interesting about the business is that it's no longer the movie business" Retrieved from   Accessed 14 September, 2005http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/hollywood/picture/corptown.html 

The films Pickford brought to life as a producer later in her career were often nothing like those she starred in as an actress: For example, "in 1945, during the independent production boom at the end of orld ar II, she organized Comet Pictures to make medium-budget films with Ralph Cohn, the son of Columbia Pictures cofounder Jack Cohn. At Comet she produced probably her finest later film, the noir hit Sleep, My Love (1948)" as well as the broad, comedic-style films My Little Chickadee (1940) with .C. Films; Love Happy (1950), with the Marx Brothers comedy and (briefly) Marilyn Monroe and the war movie the Story of G.I. Joe (1945) (Aberdeen 2005).

Pickford defended the role of independent producers in 1934, in a speech that noted that for film to continue to remain relevant in the 20th centuries, it must be innovative and challenging, particularly given that radio and (then…...

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Aberdeen, J.A. "Mary Pickford: The SIMPP Years." Hollywood Renegades. Reprinted by Cobblestone, 2005 on the web in excerpted form. May 4, 2010.

 http://www.cobbles.com/simpp_archive/mary-pickford_post-simpp.htm 

Dirks, Tim. "Film history of the 1920s." Film Site. AMC Movie Classics. May 4, 2010.

 http://www.filmsite.org/20sintro.html

Contract
In order to write the proposed personalse services contract, it is critical to include the following elements:

-names and identifying information for both parties;

-payment rate and frequency;

-expected duration of the project;

-duties of the editor;

-rights of the editor;

-rights of the film scripting group;

-duties of the film scripting group;

and nondisclosure and non-compete provisions.

Film/Script Editing Agreement

This agreement for Film Editing is entered into on March 7, 2012 by Charlie Chaplin (Chaplin), film editor (Chaplin) and Victor Price, Vice President of Hypothetical Films (Hypothetical Films) in his capacity as Vice President, and covers services for the film with the working title Underground Lives (Lives), a film about the lives of illegal immigrants in Texas.

Services

Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement Chaplin agrees to provide Hypothetical Films with film/script editing services related to Lives, including but not limited to editing work that has already been written, writing new material when necessary, attending project…...

Walt Disney is the epitome of success through perseverance and hard work. The animator, filmmaker, and entrepreneur once said, "All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." Disney had dreams that many did not think was possible to come true, and yet he continually proved to the world that anything was possible. The world of magic that we know of today would not have existed without the dreams and accomplishments of Walt Disney, who built veritable empires out of his own imagination. It is impossible to picture children's entertainment or theme parks without invoking the contributions of Walt Disney. His innovation and personal sacrifices required to make those innovations tangible realities have given us a world of magic and a world with no limitations to our imaginations.
Many have known Walt Disney to be the man who built the theme parks, particularly Disneyland and…...

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References

Pat, Williams, How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day.

2) Bob, Thomas, Walt Disney -- An American Original.

3) Bruce, Handy, December 3, 2006, Escape Artist, The New York Times. Retrieved from  http://nytimes.com .

4) Walt Disney Museum -- San Francisco

These powers are unique to Keaton, who has been widely considered superior to Charlie Chaplin for his "gentle coolness" and "deadpan bewilderment," (MacDonald 6). Both in the General and Sherlock Jr., Keaton is at his best. However, the General is a deeper and more memorable movie from the point of cinematography, direction, editing, and acting.
Buster Keaton is one of Hollywood's shining stars of the silent era. After the advent of "talkies," Keaton's career nosedived for obvious reasons. It was easier to transition from live performances in vaudeville to silent motion pictures, but the new talkies meant whole new business models in Hollywood. The dynamics had changed. Keaton's work, as was the case with most film stars of his era, remained literally silenced until they were revived and re-appreciated. Serious students of film and filmmakers today hearken to Keaton's work. He was been described as the "best comedy director in…...

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Works Cited

Bermel, Albert. Farce: A History from Aristophanes to Woody Allen. Southern Illinois University Press, 1990.

"Buster Keaton." PBS. Retrieved online:  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/buster-keaton/about-buster-keaton/644/ 

Carroll, Noel. "Buster Keaton: The General, and Visible Intelligibility." Chapter 7 in Close Viewings: An Anthology of New Film Criticism. Ed. Peter Lehrman. University Press of Florida.

Carroll, Noel. Comedy Incarnate. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007.