![Modern Times 1936 - Director: Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford
Modern Times 1936 […more Images]
“Modern Times, a story of industry, of individual enterprise—humanity crusading in the pursuit of happiness”, states the forward to the last great silent film. It opens with an overhead shot of a flock of sheep jostling in their sheep pen, and rushing through a chute. Instantly, the sheep dissolve into a similar overhead shot of industrial workers pushing out of a subway station at rush hour on their way to work in a factory. Modern Times is the classic battle of man and the toil and dehumanization of factory life. The final scene has the Tramp optimistically arm and arm with his love Paulette Goddard walking into the sunset, a fitting end to the grand era of the silent film.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3nrr88G911qabk2xo1_500.jpg)
Modern Times 1936 - Director: Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford
Modern Times 1936 […more Images]
“Modern Times, a story of industry, of individual enterprise—humanity crusading in the pursuit of happiness”, states the forward to the last great silent film. It opens with an overhead shot of a flock of sheep jostling in their sheep pen, and rushing through a chute. Instantly, the sheep dissolve into a similar overhead shot of industrial workers pushing out of a subway station at rush hour on their way to work in a factory. Modern Times is the classic battle of man and the toil and dehumanization of factory life. The final scene has the Tramp optimistically arm and arm with his love Paulette Goddard walking into the sunset, a fitting end to the grand era of the silent film.
