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Modern times / MK2 editions ; Warner Home Video ; written and directed by Charlie Chaplin.
LIBRA DVD 004 580 discs 1-2
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Chaplin collection ; v.1:1.
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- French
- Korean
- Portuguese
- Spanish
- Thai
- Subjects (All):
- Mass production--Drama.
- Mass production.
- Factories--Drama.
- Factories.
- Work--Drama.
- Work.
- Machinery in the workplace--Drama.
- Machinery in the workplace.
- Working class--Drama.
- Working class.
- Automation--Drama.
- Automation.
- Automation--Economic aspects--Drama.
- Depressions--1929--Drama.
- Depressions.
- Tramps--Drama.
- Tramps.
- Automation--Economic aspects.
- Genre:
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Feature films.
- Silent films.
- Comedy films.
- Romance films.
- Romantic comedy films.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (217 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Place of Publication:
- Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2003]
- Language Note:
- English or French soundtrack, English intertitles, and optional subtitles in English; French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Thai, and Korean. Menu in English, Spanish or Portuguese.
- Closed-captioned.
- System Details:
- DVD.
- digital
- optical
- mixed
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- A devastating satire on the effects of mass production on the lives of factory workers. Shows Charlie as a factory worker, jailbird, night watchman, and a singing waiter. Primarily a silent film with music and sound effects, but voices emanate from TV sets and radios.
- Contents:
- disc 1. The film (83 min.)
- disc 2. Special features (134 min.).
- Participant:
- Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Stanley Sandford, Chester Conklin, Hank Mann, Allan Garcia, Stanley Blystone, Dick Alexander, Cecil Reynolds, Myra McKinney.
- Credits:
- Photography, Rollie Totheroh, Ira Morgan ; music composed by Charlie Chaplin.
- Notes:
- Issued in slipcase bearing title: The Charlie Chaplin collection, vol. 1.
- DVD release of the 1936 motion picture.
- Special features include: documentary: "Chaplin today - modern times" by Philippe Truffault; introduction by David Robinson; karaoke version of Chaplin's nonsense song; theme song "Smile", performed by Liberace; government sponsored educational film "Behind the scenes in the Machine Age" (1931); Ford's promotional musical film "Symphony in F" (1940); Cuban documentary "Por primera vez" or "For the first time" (1967) on peasants watching Modern times, their first movie; photogallery, poster gallery, theatrical trailers, and deleted scenes.
- ISBN:
- 0790771683
- OCLC:
- 52537659
- Publisher Number:
- 085393794323
- 37943 Warner Home Video
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