Educational Material
Presentation for Children - Text, Photos, Film Clips
Download our presentation for children by clicking here. The text is in a Word-formatted document, and the accompanying images are available as Powerpoint or pdf files.
We prepared this presentation on Chaplin’s life and work for children aged around 5 to 12. Please consult, use, share, and alter it according to your own requirements. We would be delighted to hear any feedback about whether it works or not - office@charliechaplin.com
Other Material
Charlie Chaplin is a great teaching tool! You can download some educational material by here. The resources in this file are for educational purposes only. They may not be used commercially. Please be creative with them! Kids can use the images of Chaplin to create their own Chaplin movie posters, for example. They can also create their own flip-books using material from the original press book of the 1940 release of The Great Dictator, or make cutout paper dolls from the 1936 Modern Times press book.
If you have any questions or if you’d simply like to share any of your classroom’s Chaplin creations with us, please don’t hesitate to get in touch:
Roy Export SAS
58 rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau
75001 Paris, France
Tel: 33 (1) 40 26 31 23
e-mail: office@charliechaplin.com
Screening Chaplin films in schools
The Chaplin films owned by Roy Export, all those made by Chaplin from 1918 onwards (except A Countess from Hong Kong), may only be accompanied by Chaplin’s full symphonic score, either played live by an orchestra or on the film’s actual soundtrack. For the rights to screen one of these films in your school, please contact:
CRITERION/JANUS FILMS for the UK, the USA and English-speaking Canada.
Brian Belovarac - belovarac@janusfilms.com
MK2 Films for France and Switzerland;
MK2
55 rue Traversière
75012 Paris
Tel: +33 1 44 67 30 00
Fax: +33 1 43 41 32 30
http://mk2pro.com/
Or contact us for your country, if not listed above.
The films made by Chaplin before 1918 for Keystone, Essanay and Mutual are in public domain, so there is no copyright for the films themselves. However, different people or companies may have copyright in and to any image restoration they have carried out on the films, or in and to the music put on a particular video or DVD to accompany the films. Therefore, you cannot just screen from a DVD that you buy in a shop because it may contain such copyright material.
For the best quality restorations of pre-1918 Chaplin films existing, contact FPA Classics.
Chaplin did not compose music for the films he made before 1918. These can be accompanied by piano, organ or any other instruments playing the music of your choice.
Clip rights
There are many film clips and music soundtracks on our Youtube channel, TheChaplinFilms, which you can screen in your classroom.
Otherwise, to screen clips from Roy Export’s films from a DVD or any other source, please contact:
Anne-Laure Barbarit
MK2
55 rue Traversière
75012 Paris
Tel: +33 1 44 67 31 11
Fax: +33 1 43 07 29 63
E-mail: anne-laure.barbarit@mk2.com
To screen clips from pre-1918 Chaplin films, contact FPA Classics for the rights to the best quality restorations available.
Online Resources
Our official website is full of articles, news, book and DVD information.
If you need images from Chaplin films, please visit our image bank.
Please visit our Facebook page for our latest news.
You can also check out our Youtube channel for clips from films and other videos.
The Cineteca di Bologna has scanned all the Chaplin archives - documents and photographs from the Chaplin Studios and the films.
You can also read about “Ciné-Pousse” Filmmaking Workshops for Kids.
Charlie Chaplin
Written by Kieran, Year 5
St Peter’s C of E Primary School
Walworth London
Charlie Chaplin was a star
And also a great director
He always wobbles
And blows bubbles
He was a famous actor
Charlie Chaplin’s best film was “The Kid”
He was a tramp
He was very funny
And got a lot of money
Charlie wore a hat
He had baggy trousers
His moustache looked like a grizzly bear
I am a massive fan
He was always hit with a frying pan
The comedian went on stage at five
He was more than alive
Died with style on a beautiful day
On Christmas Day
