Screened as part of NZIFF 2015

The Immigrant 1917

Directed by Charlie Chaplin

The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra plus Charlie Chaplin equals glorious Live Cinema. Marc Taddei conducts Chaplin’s score for The Kid, arranged by Carl Davis, and Timothy Brock’s new score for the wildly funny The Immigrant.

USA In English
24 minutes B&W / DCP

Director, Editor

Producers

Henry P. Caulfield
,
Charlie Chaplin
,
John Jasper

Screenplay

Vincent Bryan
,
Charlie Chaplin
,
Maverick Terrell

Photography

William C. Foster
,
Roland Totheroh

Elsewhere

The second-to-last short Chaplin made before stepping up to feature-length films, and one of the most gob-smackingly inventive, The Immigrant sees the Tramp valiantly courting Edna Purviance while creating havoc on board a crowded ship from Europe; then on the mean streets of New York.

Screening with The Kid.