Modern Times

As a worker on an assemby line, Charlie the tramp is run trough the gears of a huge machine and is force-fed by an experimental, time-saving contraption that splashes soup in his face and shoves corn on the cob into his mouth. He can't take a second off work to scratch himself without turning the whole plant into chaos. Modern Times is a picture about the social disorders of the thirties. There are clashes between the unemployed and the police and a gag about a Communist demonstration, yet it is one of the happiest and most lighthearted of the Chaplin pictures.