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When the lights went down...

Charlie had some big issues to overcome in his life that he never faced. One was growing up in extreme poverty and seeing ugliness all around him. This cannot help but affect you. Two, was his Mother's syphillis and how it affected her and how he felt he could do nothing after he brought her to America around 1921. She died peacefully in 1928 in a little house he bought for her in Santa Monica. Another issue Charlie had was the possibility of having Bi-polar disorder. Many people who knew Charlie commented on his extreme mood swings and his extreme highs while working and very low moods where he would lock himself in his house for days and not talk to anyone. I can relate to doing that, after what I see on the news everyday? :O) But this was a genuine possibility. Many very intelligent, creative and driven people have mood or personality disorders, and he seemed to be a good person deep down, but in his childlike ways, could not show his feelings in a productive way and was frustrated by them.

 

Keystone films

Essanay films

Mutual films

First National

United Artists

Attica/Archway

Universal

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Charlie studying film

Did you know?
Charlie was actually allergic to the nitrates in film production and they made him sick. This picture was probably posed because I doubt if hw would touch film knowing this. He probably had his cameraman do it and he just watched the rushes behind the safety of the projector.

My Favorite Movies:
Early Years: The Vagabond
Middle Years: Modern Times
Later Years: Limelight

When you make a huge volume of work, you have a hard time separating the ones you like, the one you sort of like, and the ones that really grab you. I have to admit: a lot of the earlier slapstick Keystones do nothing for me. Charlie even admitted it, they were crude and stupid, but interesting to watch nonetheless to see his character develop. So many of the earlier films were chopped to death, not restored or stored properly and became damaged and neglected. They never thought people would be interested in watching those movies almost one hundred years later, so they were not saved for posterity's sake. A lot of old reels were found in Charlie's vault after he died: he was ready to trash them. Can you beleive that? Still, after all those years, he thought no one really cared. How wrong he was.

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