In 1919 Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, D. W In 1919 Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, D.W. Griffith, and Mary Pickford formed United Artists.

-Chaplin was (and still is) a very rare breed of men…performing the quintuple threat of acting, directing, writing, producing, and usually scoring his films

-In terms of years, this film was Chaplin’s longest undertaking -In terms of years, this film was Chaplin’s longest undertaking. It was in production nearly 4 years.

This was one of the last silent films ever made, since the silent era was generally over by 1927.

There was perfect logic here: Speech was not how the Tramp really expressed himself. In most silent films there's the illusion that the characters are speaking, even though we can't hear them. The Tramp is more of a mime, a person for whom body language serves as speech. Unlike most of the characters in silent films, he could have existed comfortably in a silent world.

Charles Chaplin He re-shot the scene in which the Little Tramps buys a flower from the blind flower girl 342 times, as he could not find a satisfactory way of showing that the blind flower girl thought that the mute tramp was wealthy.