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Hello, my friends. Welcome back to
Storyline English.
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Today, I want to tell you about a boy
who had nothing.
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No money, no home, sometimes no food.
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But this boy became one of the most
famous people in the world.
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His name was Charlie Chaplin.
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How did he do it?
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Stay with me, and if you enjoy stories
like this,
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It was a cold evening in London, 1895.
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A small boy sat on the street corner.
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His name was Charlie Chaplin.
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He was only six years old.
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He was hungry. He was cold.
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His clothes were old and dirty.
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Charlie looked at people walking by.
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They did not look at him.
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Nobody stopped.
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Nobody helped.
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Charlie's life was very hard from the
beginning.
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His father left the family when Charlie
was very young.
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His mother, Hannah, tried to take care
of Charlie and his brother, Sidney.
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She was a singer.
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She sang in small theaters.
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But she did not earn much money.
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Sometimes she could not work at all.
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She became sick.
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Her voice stopped working.
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Without her voice, she could not sing.
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Without singing, there was no money.
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The family became very poor.
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They moved from house to house.
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Sometimes they had no house at all.
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They slept on the streets.
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Charlie was always hungry.
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He wore the same clothes every day.
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Other children laughed at him.
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He felt ashamed.
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He felt alone.
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When Charlie was seven, something
terrible happened.
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His mother became very sick.
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She could not think clearly anymore.
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The government took her to a hospital
for sick people.
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Charlie and Sydney had no parents now.
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They were sent to a workhouse.
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A workhouse was a place for poor
children.
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It was not a nice place.
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The children worked hard every day.
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They cleaned floors.
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They washed clothes.
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They got very little food.
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The rooms were cold.
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The beds were hard.
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Charlie hated it there.
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But even in this dark time, something
special happened.
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Charlie discovered something inside
himself.
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He could make people laugh.
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When the other boys were sad, Charlie
made funny faces.
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He walked in a silly way.
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He told jokes.
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The boys laughed.
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For a moment they forgot their hunger.
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They forgot their sadness.
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Charlie felt something new.
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He felt important.
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He felt alive.
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It was a sunny morning in London, 1903.
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Charlie was now 14 years old.
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He walked into a small theater.
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The theater was looking for young
actors.
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Charlie was nervous.
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His hands were shaking.
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But he wanted this job very much.
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He needed this job.
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The theater manager looked at Charlie.
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Can you act? he asked.
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Can you make people laugh?
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Charlie did not answer with words.
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He started to move.
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He walked like an old man.
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Then he walked like a drunk man.
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Then he pretended to fall.
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The manager laughed.
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You're good, boy.
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You can start tomorrow.
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This was Charlie's first real job in
theater.
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He was part of a comedy group.
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They traveled around England. They
performed in small towns and big cities.
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Charlie learned everything about
performing.
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He learned how to move his body.
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He learned how to use his face.
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He learned that sometimes no words are
needed.
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Sometimes the body speaks better than
the mouth.
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The audiences loved Charlie.
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He was small and thin, but on stage he
was powerful.
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He could make a whole room laugh without
saying a single word.
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He moved like water.
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He was fast.
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He was smooth.
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People had never seen anything like him.
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But life was still difficult.
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Charlie earned very little money.
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The group traveled in old trains.
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They slept in cheap hotels.
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Sometimes they performed three shows in
one day.
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Charlie was always tired.
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But he never complained.
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He knew this was his chance.
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This was his way out of poverty.
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Years passed.
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Charlie got better and better.
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He joined bigger theater companies.
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He played bigger roles.
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More people knew his name.
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Then, in 1910, something happened that
changed everything.
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It was a gray morning in September 1910.
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Charlie stood on a big ship.
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The ship was leaving England.
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It was going to America.
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Charlie looked at the ocean.
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He felt scared and excited at the same
time.
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An American theater company invited
Charlie to perform in New York.
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This was a huge opportunity.
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America was the land of dreams.
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America was where you could become
somebody.
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Charlie did not know what would happen.
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But he knew he had to try.
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When Charlie arrived in New York,
everything was different.
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The buildings were taller.
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The streets were wider.
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The people moved faster.
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Everything was bigger, louder, brighter.
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Charlie felt small again, like that
little boy on the London streets.
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But he did not give up.
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He performed with a theater company
across America.
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They went to New York, Chicago, San
Francisco, and many other cities.
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American audiences loved Charlie.
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They laughed at his movements. They
loved his energy.
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They loved how he could tell a whole
story without words.
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Then, in 1913, something amazing
happened.
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A man from a movie company saw Charlie
perform.
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His name was Mac Sennett.
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He made comedy films.
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He saw something special in Charlie.
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After the show, he came to Charlie.
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I make movies, Mac said.
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I want you to be in my films.
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I will pay you $150 every week.
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Charlie could not believe it.
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$150 every week.
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That was more money than he ever dreamed
of.
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But there was one problem.
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Charlie had never made a movie before.
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He knew nothing about cameras or film.
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Would he be good enough?
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Charlie thought for one minute.
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Then he said yes.
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It was a cold day in January 1914 in Los
Angeles, California.
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Charlie walked into Keystone Studios for
the first time.
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This was where they made movies.
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He saw cameras, lights and actors
everywhere.
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Everyone was busy.
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Everyone knew what to do.
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Charlie felt lost.
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His first films were not very good.
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Charlie did not understand how to act
for the camera.
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In theater, you act big.
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You move big so people in the back can
see you.
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But in movies, the camera is close.
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You must act smaller, more natural.
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Charlie had to learn everything again.
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At first, the director told Charlie what
to do.
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Stand here.
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Move there.
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Do this.
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But Charlie did not like that.
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He wanted to create his own character.
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He wanted to do something different.
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Then, one day, the director told
Charlie, We need to film in thirty
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Go find a costume. Find something funny.
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Charlie went to the dressing room.
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He looked at all the clothes.
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He picked a small jacket.
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It was too small for him.
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He picked big pants.
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They were too big.
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He found big shoes.
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He found a small hat.
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He found a cane.
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He put on a small mustache.
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Charlie looked in the mirror.
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Something magical happened.
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A new person looked back at him.
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This person was poor but proud.
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This person was small but brave.
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This person was sad but funny.
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This person...
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had a good heart.
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Charlie walked onto the set.
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Everyone stopped and looked.
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Then they started laughing.
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The character was perfect.
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This was the birth of the tramp.
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This was the character that would make
Charlie Chaplin famous around the world.
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The tramp became Charlie's most famous
character.
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In every film, the Tramp was poor.
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He wore the same old clothes.
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He had no money.
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But he always tried to do the right
thing.
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He helped people.
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He fell in love.
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He fought against bullies.
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He made people laugh, but he also made
them cry.
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People everywhere loved the Tramp.
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They saw themselves in him.
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Everyone knew what it felt like to be
small.
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Everyone knew what it felt like to
struggle.
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But the tramp never gave up.
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He always kept walking, even when life
was hard.
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That gave people hope.
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It was a warm evening in 1915 in Los
Angeles.
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Charlie sat in his small apartment.
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He read a letter.
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The letter was from a big movie studio.
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They wanted Charlie to make films for
them.
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They offered him $1 ,250 every week,
plus a bonus.
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Charlie read the number again.
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$1 ,250 every week.
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Just one year ago, he was earning $150 a
week, and he thought that was amazing.
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Now this.
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Charlie signed the contract.
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He made more films.
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Each film was better than the last.
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Charlie learned fast.
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He was not just an actor anymore.
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He started to direct his films too.
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He controlled everything.
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He chose the stories.
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He chose the actors.
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He chose how to film each scene.
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He was becoming an artist.
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His films became more popular.
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People lined up outside theaters to
watch them.
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Children loved him. Adults loved him.
Rich people and poor people all laughed
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his films.
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Charlie Chaplin became the most famous
movie star in the world.
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But Charlie wanted more than just
laughs.
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He wanted his films to have meaning.
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He wanted to touch people's hearts.
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So he started to add emotion to his
comedy.
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In his films, the tramp was still funny.
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But now he was also human.
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He felt joy.
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He felt pain.
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He felt love.
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He felt loss.
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In 1921, Charlie made a film called The
Kid.
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It was about the tramp who finds a poor
child and takes care of him.
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The film was funny, but it was also very
emotional.
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People cried when they watched it.
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It was one of the first films to make
people laugh and cry at the same time.
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The film was a huge success.
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Charlie was now more than a star.
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He was a legend.
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But success brought new problems.
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It was a bright morning in 1919 in
Hollywood, California.
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Charlie sat at a big table.
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Three other men sat with him.
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Their names were Douglas Fairbanks, Mary
Pickford, and D .W. Griffith.
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They were all famous movie stars and
directors.
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They made an important decision that
day.
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They created their own movie studio.
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They called it United Artists.
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This was revolutionary.
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Before this, big studios controlled
everything.
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They controlled the actors. They
controlled the money. They controlled
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films.
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But now, Charlie and his partners were
free.
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They could make any film they wanted.
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They could take their time. They could
spend more money.
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They could make art, not just
entertainment.
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For Charlie, this was a dream come true.
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He could finally make the films he
always wanted to make.
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And he did.
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In 1925, he made The Gold Rush.
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It took him over a year to make this one
film.
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In the film, the tramp goes to Alaska
looking for gold.
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He faces cold, hunger, and danger.
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There is one famous scene.
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The tramp is so hungry that he cooks his
shoe and eats it like a delicious meal.
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People laughed, but they also felt his
pain.
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The film was beautiful.
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It was funny.
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It was sad.
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It was perfect.
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The Gold Rush became one of the greatest
films ever made.
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Then, in 1931, Charlie made City Lights.
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This was a special time.
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Other movies now had sound.
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Actors talked.
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They sang.
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But Charlie did not want sound in his
film.
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He believed that the body and the face
could tell the story better than words.
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He was right.
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City Lights had no talking, but it made
people cry more than any talking film.
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By now, Charlie was not just rich.
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He was one of the richest people in
entertainment.
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He owned his own studio.
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He controlled his own work.
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He had complete freedom.
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The poor boy from London Streets now had
everything.
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But the world was changing, and new
troubles were coming.
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It was a cold afternoon in 1940 in
Hollywood.
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Charlie was working on a new film.
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This film was different. This film was
political.
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It was about a dictator who looked like
Adolf Hitler.
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The film was called The Great Dictator.
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This was a dangerous film to make.
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America was not at war yet.
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Many powerful people did not want
Charlie to make this film. They said it
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too political.
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They said it would cause problems.
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But Charlie did not stop.
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He believed this film was important.
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In the film, Charlie played two
characters.
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One was a Jewish barber, very similar to
the tramp.
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The other was a cruel dictator.
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At the end of the film, the barber gives
a powerful speech about freedom.
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kindness, and humanity.
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When the film came out in 1940, it was a
huge success.
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People loved it.
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But it also made Charlie many enemies.
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Some people said Charlie was a
communist.
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They said he was dangerous.
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They said he was against America.
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This was the beginning of hard times for
Charlie.
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The US government started watching him.
They investigated him.
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They wanted to find something wrong.
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The newspapers wrote bad things about
him.
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Some people called him a traitor.
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In 1952, Charlie left America to visit
Europe.
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While he was away, the American
government cancelled his visa.
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They said he could not return to America
unless he answered questions about his
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political beliefs.
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Charlie was shocked.
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He lived in America for 40 years.
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He made his greatest films there.
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He became famous there.
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Now they did not want him?
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Charlie was hurt. He was angry.
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He decided he would not return.
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He moved to Switzerland with his family.
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He said, I don't need America.
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America needs me.
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For twenty years, Charlie could not go
back to America.
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He continued making films in Europe.
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But it was not the same.
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He missed Hollywood.
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He missed his friends.
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He missed the place where he became
Charlie Chaplin.
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It was a special night in April 1972 in
Los Angeles.
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The Academy Awards ceremony was
happening.
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Something unusual was planned.
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After 20 years, Charlie Chaplin returned
to America.
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He came to receive a special award for
his lifetime work in film.
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Charlie was now 83 years old.
365
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He walked slowly onto the stage.
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He was small and thin.
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His hair was white, but his eyes were
still bright.
368
00:19:24,580 --> 00:19:29,280
When people saw him, they stood up. The
whole room stood up.
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They clapped.
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They clapped for a long time.
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Some people cried.
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charlie stood there and looked at
everyone he smiled he said only a few
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thank you thank you so much that night
was healing
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america remembered why they loved
charlie chaplin they remembered the joy
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gave them they remembered the tramp they
remembered the laughter they forgot the
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politics they forgot the anger
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00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:07,540
Charlie returned to Switzerland.
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00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:12,080
He spent his last years there with his
wife Una and their children.
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He was happy.
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He was peaceful.
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He had a big family.
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He had love.
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He had memories of an incredible life.
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On Christmas Day 1977,
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Charlie Chaplin died.
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He was 88 years old.
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The world mourned.
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00:20:33,300 --> 00:20:35,660
Newspapers everywhere wrote about his
death.
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People shared their favorite Chaplin
moments.
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They watched his films again.
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Charlie Chaplin left behind something
precious.
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He left behind films that still make
people laugh and cry.
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He left behind The Tramp, a character
that everyone in the world knows.
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He left behind proof that one person,
even a poor boy from London streets,
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Charlie Chaplin's story teaches us
something important.
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Life can be very hard. You can start
with nothing.
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You can face terrible problems.
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But if you work hard, if you never give
up, if you follow your passion, you can
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create something beautiful.
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You can touch millions of hearts.
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You can become immortal through your
art.
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From the streets of London to the stages
of America, from silent films to
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eternal fame,
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Charlie Chaplin walked a long road.
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He walked it with dignity.
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He walked it with humor.
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He walked it like the tramp.
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Always moving forward.
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Always hoping.
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Always human.
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Thank you for listening to this story.
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