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"Machinery should benefit mankind. It should not spell tragedy and throw it out of work." Charlie Chaplin said this in an interview with the New York World newspaper in the winter of 1931. In this 1936 film, Chaplin's The Little Tramp faces unemployment, jail and a stretch of time on the assembly line; the comedy includes the famous scene of Chaplin beta-testing an automatic feeding machine meant to do away with the lunch hour. His partner here is a female Tramp--"The Gamin," played by Chaplin's real-life spouse, Paulette Goddard. She keeps reappearing in his life, throughout the vagaries of jail, factory work and odd jobs. Discussion follows.
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