City Lights (1931) DVD Details
Details
Release Date: 02/01/2000
Chapters: 20
Regions: 1
Screen: B&W
Sound Formats: DD5.1/DD1
Languages: English
Subtitles: English, Français, Español, Português, Chinese, Thai & Korean
Number of sides: 2
DVD Studio: Warner Home Video
Rating: G
Format: DVD
Features
Closed Caption
All-new digital transfer from Chaplin family vault picture and audio elements
Soundtrack remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1 as well as original Mono
Interactive menus
Scene access
Subtitles: English
Français
Español
Português
Chinese
Thai & Korean
Introduction by David Robinson - Chaplin's biographer discusses the historical and cinematic context of the film
Chaplin Today: City Lights - documentary by Serge Bromberg with the participation of the animation artist and director Peter Lord
Outtake - Charlie tries to disengage a sliver of wood stuck in a sidewalk grating
The Champion (1915) excerpt - Charlie stages a balletic boxing match
15 years before City Lights
Shooting - on the set of the famous scene in which Charlie and the flower girl first meet
filmed by Ralph Barton
Georgia Hale screen test - the screen test made by the actress of The Gold Rush when Chaplin thought of replacing Virginia Cherrill as the flower girl
The dream prince - a discarded idea for how the flower girl imagines her benefactor
Rehearsal - Chaplin works out the staging of a complicated scene
Chaplin and boxing stars - Chaplin playfully boxes with professional prizefighters visiting his studios
Winston Churchill's visit - Britain's future prime minister visits Chaplin during the shooting of City Lights
Chaplin speaks! - in 1931 Vienna during his triumphant European tour
Chaplin speaks for the first time on film
Trip to Bali - footage shot when Charlie and Sydney Chaplin visited Bali in 1932
Photo gallery - photos of the production and of the actors
Film posters
Trailers
The Chaplin Collection