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Motion Picture News, New York, December 15, 1928.

Hollywood is happy and excited again, for Chaplin‘s at work.

Shooting has begun on Charlie‘s next, „City Lights.“ Left to right:

Carlyle Robinson, assistant director; Chaplin; Henry Clive,

cover artist, and Harry Crocker and megaphone.

(...) Gossip of All The Studios By Cal York, Photoplay,

April 1929, photo

& Charlie Chaplin in „City Lights“ Revival Press Photo

& Over at the Chaplin studios, there is much

conferencing and excitement. Hammers are pounding.

Everything is busy, busy, busy. A great big set

right at the entrance after you come through the Information

Desk, is almost finished, and it immediately gives

you an idea that Charlie‘s new picture is going to turn him

into a „city feller.“ It is a huge square, made into

a city park, with hedges, benches, street lights and a pond

in the center. All you have to do is shut your eyes,

walk into the center of the place, open ‘em up, and you think

you are in the park there in your own home town.

City Lights is the name of the new picture, and if „conferencing“

means anything, this new one of Chariie‘s is going

to be the best thing he has ever done, because the whole staff

starts in talking story at nine in the morning,

and is still going strong at seven in the evening!

(...) They Say By Marion of Hollywood,

Screenland, Dec. 1928

„Do you want silent films eliminated? 38 Yes, 215 No“

Editorial content. „Los Angeles Patrons

      Indicate Preference

      In Theatre Canvass“ (...)

      Hollywood, Dec. 12. – A small majority of film house

patrons prefer talkers to silent pictures, according

to a canvass taken by the drama department of ,The Los

Angeles Evening Herald.‘ That publication distributed

259 questionnaires, asking eleven questions regarding talking

and silent films.“ (...)

      „The complete questionnaire and results are:

      1. Do you prefer talking pictures? 141 Yes, 104 No.

      2. Do you want silent films eliminated? 38 Yes, 215 No.“ (...)

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