Chaplin - Recording Session

Images taken during the recording session of a new score for The Kid, in 1971. The fat gutted conductor's patronizing attitude towards Chaplin is intolerable, and you can tell Chaplin is annoyed by it. Still a document worth watching.

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• Charlie
• Chaplin
• The
• Kid
• Film
• Score
• Music
• Recording
• Session
• Conducting
• Orchestra

[citizensagainst]

Thanks for all the Charlie vids you've posted!

[Nordenwald]

You're welcome - glad you enjoy them :-)

[DirtyHandsProduction]

This melody IS the Chaplin's Heart!

[westfield90]

This gets me emotional everytime I see it. Such a genius.

[miker2001]

I think Chaplin was a genius, but the conductor is just impersonal.  Imagine if the tables were reversed, and Chaplin was directing him as an actor or comic. He would have been harder on him.

[notedmusician]

What a gem, an old 1972 classic scoring session... so funny, I love this!! :) Thanks for the post!

[cavaconline]

O maior maestro do cinema mudo

[lovemypeke1]

This is beautiful to see, thank you for sharing it with Chaplin fans!

There is always that beautiful and somehow familiar and melancholic tone through Chaplin's compositions. Genius. Happy Birthday, Charlie (April 16) - Jeanne

[whatwouldjudydo]

Who the hell does that fat conductor guy think he's dealing with? EXCUSE ME, BUT THAT IS CHARLIE CHAPLIN, GODDAMN YOU TO HELL! If you are reading this, you didn't belong in the same building as Charlie Chaplin. You were nothing, you are nothing, you will always be nothing unless you're dead, and all I can say is hallelujah! But Chaplin....GENIUS. Pure genius. Makes me cry every time.

[SuperAaaaa123456]

i love him

[Lampshade51]

This is wonderful!

Chaplin wrote, directed and starred in "The Kid" in 1921, a silent film. Here he is 50 years later in 1971 (!) conducting a brand new score which he just wrote (!!) for the 1971 reissue.

Wow.  Can you imagine that? Incredible.