Photos: Chaplin and Animals
For your viewing pleasure, here is another selection of photographs from the Chaplin archives. Our theme for this selection is “Chaplin and Animals”. Enjoy!
On the set of A Dog’s Life (1918) © Roy Export Company Establishment. Scan courtesy Cineteca di Bologna.
Merna Kennedy and Chaplin play with a kitten. The Circus (1928) © Roy Export S.A.S. Scan courtesy Cineteca di Bologna.
Charlie Chaplin in One A.M. (1916) From the archives of Roy Export Company Establishment.
Charlie tries blowing a pill down a horse’s throat in The Circus (1928) © Roy Export S.A.S. Scan courtesy Cineteca di Bologna.
Charlie as a tight-rope walker, attacked by escaped monkeys in The Circus (1928) © Roy Export S.A.S. Scan courtesy Cineteca di Bologna.
Chaplin as a street cleaner with Anna May, famed elephant star, in City Lights (1931) © Roy Export S.A.S. Scan courtesy Cineteca di Bologna.
On the set of The Circus (1928). For the scenes with the lions Chaplin made some 200 takes, in many of which he was actually inside the lion’s cage. © Roy Export Company Establishment. Scan courtesy Cineteca di Bologna.
Charles Chaplin feeds a bear on the set of The Gold Rush (1925). © Roy Export Company Establishment. Scan courtesy Cineteca di Bologna.
A cat steals a sausage from the table in Pay Day (1922) © Roy Export S.A.S. Scan courtesy Cineteca di Bologna.
You can also check out our previous photo archive posts:
February 28th, 2013: A selection of Chaplin photographs
March 29th, 2013: From the Chaplin archives