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City lights"" – Vintage Print

City lights"", 1964, [from a photograph takenin 1931] — historic photograph
City lights"", 1964, [from a photograph takenin 1931]. Historic photograph from the Movies & Film collection.

(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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A window into the past: City lights"", preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Few pictures in the collection are tied this directly to a single film. The caption names *City Lights*, Charlie Chaplin's 1931 comedy, which he wrote, directed, produced and starred in. The print was made in 1964 from a photograph taken in 1931, the year the film came out, and its record also lists a locker room setting among its subjects. *City Lights* was released as a silent film with a synchronized score when most Hollywood pictures already had dialogue, which makes it one of the best-known holdouts from that transition.

Created / published1964, [from a photograph takenin 1931]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreFilm stills 1930-1940.Publicity photographs 1930-1940.Photographic prints 1960-1970.
NotesDate taken from piece. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsChaplin, Charlie,--1889-1977--Performances. Locker rooms--1930-1940. Motion pictures 1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,287 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-204935

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