CHARLIE CHAPLIN’S FILM: THE IMMIGRANT-Screening @ National Gallery of Art in DC 11/29 @ 4 P.M.
Posted on November 29th, 2008
THIS TWO-REEL MASTERPIECE WAS CHAPLIN’S COMIC VALENTINE TO THE AMERICAN DREAM. IT AFFECTIONATELY PORTRAYED THE TRIALS & TRIBULATIONS OF NEWCOMERS TO THE PROMISED LAND FILMED AT A PERIOD IN AMERICAN HISTORY WHEN FULLY ONE-THIRD OF ALL PEOPLE IN AMERICA WERE EITHER FOREIGN-BORN OR HAD AT LEAST ONE FOREIGN BORN PARENT.
FOR DOCUMENTARY FOOTAGE OF THE ACTUAL EXPERIENCE SEE:
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