The Modern Times Feeding Machine Scene
This is my favorite scene from Modern Times. It’s the little mouth wiping arm of the feeding machine that really gets me. I guess dead pan is to be expected from a bot, but the way that it pops out to dab Charlie’s mouth no matter what mishap just occurred makes me laugh every damn time.
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Chaplin, perfectionist that he was, took so many takes of this scene to get it just right (I think the “machine” was giving him fits, too), that his mouth was bleeding by the time they finished for the day. If I remember correctly, this was mentioned in a documentary “Chaplin: His Life and Art” that has been shown by TCM several times — a great doc, if you haven’t already seen it.