Category Archives: City Lights

SF Silent Film Festival Returns to Live Cinema with Chaplin’s City Lights

Posted on February 5, 2022 by John Bengtson

The San Francisco Silent Film Festival returns to presenting live cinema this February 19 at the Paramount Theater with the Oakland Symphony Orchestra accompanying Charlie Chaplin’s masterpiece City Lights (1931), conducted by Timothy Brock. You may order tickets HERE. Along … Continue reading →

Posted in Charlie Chaplin, City Lights | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The Remarkable Charlie Chaplin Archives

Posted on November 8, 2020 by John Bengtson

The Charlie Chaplin Archives, housed in Bologna and accessible online, hosts thousands of rare photographs, production logs, scripts, and other fascinating studio records and documentation from Chaplin’s life and long career. Pick a favorite film, or subject of interest, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Chaplin Studio, City Lights | Tagged , , , | 3 Comments

Charlie Chaplin City Lights Tour – Author Presentation

Posted on June 8, 2015 by John Bengtson

As part of the Los Angeles Conservancy Last Remaining Seats film series, on June 13, 2015 I will be introducing Charlie Chaplin’s masterpiece City Lights at the spectacular Los Angeles Theater where the film premiered January 30, 1931.  Although the … Continue reading →

Posted in Chaplin Tour, Charlie Chaplin, City Lights, Los Angeles Historic Core | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

New City Lights Release – Discoveries and Assumptions

Posted on November 13, 2013 by John Bengtson

Here’s a new location discovery to celebrate the Criterion Collection Blu-ray release of Charlie Chaplin’s 1931 masterpiece City Lights.  The scenes where Charlie reports to work as a street sweeper, and where he also learns there is money to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Chaplin Studio, Charlie Chaplin, City Lights | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 9 Comments

The Artist Locations Part 5 – Chaplin’s City Lights

Posted on January 28, 2012 by John Bengtson

The Los Angeles Theater, located at 615 S. Broadway in the Los Angeles Theater District, has a remarkable connection to two of the most audacious hit movies in Hollywood history, Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights (1931), and Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist … Continue reading →

Posted in Charlie Chaplin, City Lights, Los Angeles Historic Core, The Artist | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 9 Comments

Chaplin’s Beverly Wilshire Cigar

Posted on May 3, 2011 by John Bengtson

During one of my favorite jokes from City Lights, Charlie spies a cigar butt on the sidewalk while driving around in his millionaire friend’s luxury car.  Charlie leaps from the car, grabs the butt before another bum can take it, … Continue reading →

Posted in Charlie Chaplin, City Lights | Tagged , , , , , , , | 8 Comments