Hello my friends. As many of you know, Charlie Chaplin was reluctant to get into talkies and made City Lights (1931) as a silent film after all of his contemporaries had moved to talkies. This is also rather interesting in hindsight as we know when Charlie started making talkies, those films would feature long speech's and many dialogue heavy scenes. We can all be grateful that City Lights was made as a silent as it is a near perfect movie just the way it is.
The following is a 1930 article from Silver Screen Magazine, discussing Charlie's decision to make City Lights as a silent. If you have trouble reading any of these pages click on them and use your touch screen to zoom in.
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