Sunday 4 March 2012
Charlie Chaplin - City Lights (1931)
Director: Charlie Chaplin | 83 minutes | Cert U
Time: 3pm
Venue:
City Gallery Lecture Theatre
Commercial Road
Southampton SO14 7LP
Presented as part of Southampton's Musical Alphabet coordinated by Turner Sims www.turnersims.co.uk
This 1931 silent comedy drama sees Chaplin’s beloved character, The Tramp, fall in love with a beautiful, blind flower girl whose family is in financial trouble. When he learns that an operation may restore the girl’s sight, he sets off to earn the money she needs to have surgery. The Tramp’s friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl’s benefactor and suitor, but will she love him even when she discovers that he is not a wealthy duke but a tramp?
Made in 1931 shortly after the introduction of the talkies, Charlie Chaplin's City Lights is nonetheless near-silent. Chaplin was afraid that, should his universally known and beloved Tramp speak onscreen, he would be severely limited and compromised as a character… for the many of you who have recently enjoyed the phenomenally successful The Artist, this will be a familiar theme.
Venue:
City Gallery Lecture Theatre
Commercial Road
Southampton SO14 7LP
Presented as part of Southampton's Musical Alphabet coordinated by Turner Sims www.turnersims.co.uk
This 1931 silent comedy drama sees Chaplin’s beloved character, The Tramp, fall in love with a beautiful, blind flower girl whose family is in financial trouble. When he learns that an operation may restore the girl’s sight, he sets off to earn the money she needs to have surgery. The Tramp’s friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl’s benefactor and suitor, but will she love him even when she discovers that he is not a wealthy duke but a tramp?
Made in 1931 shortly after the introduction of the talkies, Charlie Chaplin's City Lights is nonetheless near-silent. Chaplin was afraid that, should his universally known and beloved Tramp speak onscreen, he would be severely limited and compromised as a character… for the many of you who have recently enjoyed the phenomenally successful The Artist, this will be a familiar theme.
