Videos of the comedy film "Modern Times"

with Charlie Chaplain as director and main actor released in 1936 reflecting the industrial revolution as well as the difficulties of the common workers

Charlie Chaplain's "Modern Times Part 1"

Watch Charlie Chaplain working in a modern assembly line turning bolts. See also Charlie Chaplain being fed lunch by a modern automatic food machine:

Charlie Chaplain's "Modern Times Part 2"

Charlie Chaplain suffered mental breakdown and hospitalized. After being cured of his mental breakdown and discharged, Charlie Chaplain was jobless:

Charlie Chaplain's "Modern Times" Part 3"

While walking the street looking for a job, Charlie Chaplain inadvertently joined a worker's demonstration and was arrested and jailed as a communist. In the jail during one of the mealtime, Charlie Chaplain somehow ate some mysterious "nose powder" which made him like a "superman". Charlie Chaplain foiled a prisoner's escape (prison breakout):

Charlie Chaplain: Modern Times Part 4

For helping foil the prison breakout, Charlie Chaplain was rewarded with a nice comfortable prison cell with radio, comfortable pillows, etc. After a visit by the Minister (priest) and his wife, Charlie Chaplain was given a letter of recommendation and freed after being told the letter of recommendation will help him get a job. Charlie Chaplain asked to stay (in prison) but his request was not granted. Charlie Chaplain found a job in a shipyard. Given a task of finding a wedge shaped piece of wood, Charlie Chaplain launched a ship instead and was sacked. While walking the street, Charlie Chaplain bumped into a orphan girl running away from the law after stealing a loaf of bread. Determined to be jailed again, Charlie Chaplain admitted to the theft, but it was not to be. The orphan girl was led away by the police. Meanwhile, Charlie Chaplain walked into a upmarket restaurant and helped himself to 2 gigantic plates of food:

Charlie Chaplain: Modern Times Part 5

Determined to go back to jail, Charlie Chaplain walked away from the restaurant without paying and tried to attract the attention of a policeman. For double measure to get himself arrested, Charlie Chaplain also stole some cigars from a roadside stall. For his efforts, Charlie Chaplain was thrown into a police truck and by coincidence, the orphan girl who stole a loaf of bread was also thrown into the same police truck. After some exchanges, the orphan girl made a break for freedom and in the mayhem, both Charlie Chaplain, the orphan girl and the prison warden was thrown out onto the road. After regaining consciousness, Charlie Chaplain and the orphan girl ran away from the prison warden and ended up in the garden of a beautiful house and saw the loving wife say goodbye to the loving husband. They dreamed that they are a loving couple in a beautiful house.