Chaplin in the Park projected three of Charlie Chaplin’s most famous films on to the side of Weston Park Museum
In 1959 Chaplin revisited past triumphs. He selected some of his funniest early films and composed and added new music to them.
In A Dog’s Life Chaplin’s little tramp adopts a dog companion to survive in the city. Mixing realism and fantasy, Shoulder Arms is a celebrated satire of combat and features Charlie as a boot camp private single-handedly winning World War I. In The Pilgrim Charlie is an escaped convict who is hilariously mistaken for the new minister of a small Texas town.
The three films were combined to form a single feature-length film, The Chaplin Revue.
Charlie Chaplin was last seen in Sheffield in person in December 1904 when he performed as Billy at the Lyceum Theatre in a production of Sherlock Holmes.
