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DVD

Modern times

Call Number

  • DVD COMEDY (CEN)

Edition

Full screen version.

Languages

Silent film with intertitles and musical accompaniment; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard.

Publication Information

[United States] : The Criterion Collection : Image Entertainment, [2010]

Physical Description

2 videodiscs (87 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

When his boss demands more speed and efficiency, Chaplin goes crazy from his repetitious assembly line job.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1936.

Special features: audio commentary by Chaplin biographer David Robinson; two new visual essays; new program on film's visual and sound effects; interview from 1992 with Modern times music arranger, David Raskin; Chaplin today: "modern times" (2004); two segments removed from the film; 3 theatrical trailers; All at sea (1933), a home movie; The rink (1916), a Chaplin two-reeler; For the first time (1967), a cuban documentary short; and more.

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