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00:00How do you do, ladies and gentlemen, this is Charlie Chaplin talking.
00:04This was Hollywood, California in 1915, with its sun-kissed oranges and lemon groves, before
00:09it was visited by the three horsemen of the apocalypse, oil movies and aeronautics, who
00:14strolled the earth uprooting the orange and the lemon trees, and in their stead built
00:19factories and motion picture studios.
00:21I was one of the offenders.
00:23I wanted a studio in a hurry.
00:24In the States, they do things in a hurry, and as if by magic, I got it.
00:28This is not Stratford-on-Avon, Shakespeare's birthplace.
00:31Believe it or not, this is a motion picture studio.
00:34Now you see my arrival, that's me.
00:37I look much younger there.
00:39That was taken at least ten years ago.
00:42Now let me take you backstage.
00:43In those days, I never worked with a scenario.
00:46It started with an idea and developed on the set.
00:58This is Miss Edna Proviance, my leading lady.
01:01As you see, she's put on a little weight during the building of the studio.
01:09The next scene, we ran into a little trouble.
01:10We must have rehearsed it 50 times.
01:28On the 32nd take, the little fella became quite a dead weight.
01:31It was very trying on the muscles of my arms.
01:37So now let me take you back to the good old silent days.
01:40There will be no talk, no, no, no realistic sound.
01:42I think it would spoil the mood.
01:44I have composed two hours of music, which I hope would be more agreeable than the sound
01:48of footsteps on the gravel path, as it were, or a lot of yackety-yack talking, as I'm doing
01:53now.
01:54It will be music and action, a sort of a comic ballet.
01:58And now I shall retire behind my curtain of silence.