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Sinclair Hill, World Film News, London, December 1936.

Chaplin Poster Criticised. A simple and memorable design. Instantaneously recognisable likeness, drawn with

great sensibility. Could have been one of the most distinguished

recent advertisements, had McKnight Kauffer´s

drawing been left unimpaired by advertiser‘s self-willed

and discordant typography.

(...) Zéro, World Film News, April 1936

„Character versus Personality“

Editorial content. „Character versus Personality

      Sinclair Hill, Grosvenor‘s Director of Production, discusses

character creation in relation to literature, the stage

and the screen

      That the motion picture, with its visual and aural appeal,

and its tremendous advantages over the written word,

has created no characters of its own comparable to the giants

of literature, or even of the stage, is a charge that has

been repeatedly made against the cinema.“ (...)

      „But despite all this the fact remains that the screen has

created one or two great characters of its own. Charlie

Chaplin‘s little tramp, for instance, is as much a creation of the

screen as say Mr. Micawber is a creation of literature.

      Chaplin‘s tramp could not have been created with the

same effect in any other medium, literary or dramatic.

It is something purely visual and essentially filmic. But it is

a creation not of the talkies but of the silent screen;

a character created and made famous long before the advent

of talkies.“ (...)

      „Will it be left to Chaplin and to this fantastic

little figure we call Mickey to fulfill the two greatest creative

personalities of the screen?“

     

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