Today is the anniversary of the release date of the classic Charlie Chaplin short The Immigrant (1917). Nowadays the film is almost always talked about in terms of its social commentary: shots of eager immigrants on a ship being manhandled like cattle, vs. the ironic image of the Statue of Liberty just across the harbor. It’s there, […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:54AM on June 17, 2014