[Charlie Chaplin, full-length portrait, sleeping on stairs in a scene from the movie City Lights"]" – Historic Photo Reproduction
![[Charlie Chaplin, full-length portrait, sleeping on stairs in a scene from the movie City Lights"]", 1964, [from a photograph taken in 1931] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/76/767ee24176df-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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[Charlie Chaplin, full-length portrait, sleeping on stairs in a scene from the movie City Lights"]" comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Charlie Chaplin, full-length portrait, sleeping on stairs in a scene from the movie City Lights"]"
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Chaplin is shown full length, stretched out asleep on a set of stairs, a pose taken from *City Lights*, the 1931 comedy he wrote, directed, and starred in as the Tramp. He made the film as a silent picture with a score he composed himself, at a time when most Hollywood studios had already moved to sound. This print is a 1964 copy of a 1931 photograph, and it belongs to the New York World-Telegram and Sun newspaper collection, which preserved many production and publicity images from the period.
| Created / published | 1964, [from a photograph taken in 1931] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Film stills 1930-1940.Photographic prints 1960-1970. |
| Notes | Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Chaplin, Charlie,--1889-1977. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,095 × 4,143 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-199780 |
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