Dec 4, 2019
City Lights (1931)
Only the Masterful Charlie Chaplin, could create a silent film released 3 years after the advent of the talkies -
‘I was a Pantomimist and in that medium I was unique and, without false modesty, a master’.
The arguments against introducing dialogue into films were commercial as well as artistic. Pantomime-particularly Chaplin’s pantomime – was a universal language. English dialogue would seriously restrict a market which till this time had been universal. (Chaplin always reckoned to earn back his production costs from Japan alone).
Chaplin The Mirror of Opinion page 95 David Robinson 1983
