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Scene from City Lights: man in bowler hat holding a flower – Antique Print

Scene from City Lights: man in bowler hat holding a flower — historic image
Scene from City Lights: man in bowler hat holding a flower. Historic image from the Movies & Film collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Scene from City Lights: man in bowler hat holding a flower. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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Scene from City Lights: man in bowler hat holding a flower

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Charlie Chaplin's Tramp character, in his familiar bowler hat, clutches a flower in this still from City Lights, the 1931 silent comedy he wrote, directed, scored and starred in. The bloom is no accident of props: it belongs to the film's central romance, in which the Tramp woos a blind flower seller, and the gesture of offering a blossom becomes a quiet emblem of tenderness. Chaplin made City Lights in the sound era, when most studios had moved to talkies, and he chose to keep the picture silent, relying on pantomime and music to carry its emotion. Notice how much of the story lives in small physical details like this one.

Original scan4,096 × 3,295 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-204937

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