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NEA, Cumberland Eve. Times, Cumberland, Md., March 8, 1940.

Big Gun For Chaplin‘s Film

      HOLLYWOOD. – Blase Hollywood lifted both eyebrows,

blinked a couple of times, then went in to a plain

tourist-type gawking. Through the streets crept one of the

biggest guns ever seen anywhere. (Above) The gun,

a replica of Germany‘s 75-mile cannon, used in shelling Paris

during World War. It is fashioned of wood. A hundred

feet in length it weighs 6500 pounds. Charlie Chaplin will

use it in filming sequences of „The Dictator,“ now

in production. (INP).

(...) International News Photos, Honolulu Advertiser,

Honolulu, Hawaii, Feb. 26, 1940

& NO SUBSTITUTES will do for Charlie Chaplin when

he makes a picture. That‘s why this Big Bertha rolls through

the streets of Hollywood for use in war scenes.

(...) Photo, Star-Phoenix, Saskatoon, Canada, Feb. 29, 1940

& . . . San Fernando valley residents up in arms over the

dynamite discharges that Charlie Chaplin has been

using for his fake long range gun in the last shots of The

Dictator. Understand that Chaplin crawls into

the barrel of the gun for one shot and is exploded out

(...) Looking at Hollywood By Ed Sullivan,

Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Ill., Feb. 26, 1940

„He hopped off, ran ahead and took his place“

Editorial content. „HARRISON IN Hollywood

      Paulette Goddard Is Slated for the Top;

      She works Hard Even Though She Needn‘t

      Versatile Ability Lands Her

      Tough Character Roles

      NEA Service Staff Correspondent“ (...)

      „I asked Miss Goddard whether she‘s pestered constantly

to talk about the Chaplin picture, and she said yes,

and so is Mr. Chaplin. ,People have no idea how busy he is,

doing everything himself. It‘s practically all finished

now, except for some war scenes, and I guess it‘ll preview

in about six weeks.‘

      As a sample of his dual activities, she told about a scene

she watched the other day. It was a long trucking shot

in which the camera began at the front-line trenches and moved

back, past secondary lines and machine gun nests

on past artillery emplacements. Chaplin rode on the camera

truck, directing extras along the way. At the last, while

the cameras swung to one side, he hopped off, ran ahead and

took his place, and the scene ended on the familiar

figure of the little tramp.“

      Paul Harrison, NEA Service Staff Correspondent.

      NEA, Newspaper Enterprise Association.

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