This document provides information about the 1936 Charlie Chaplin film Modern Times. It includes the film's technical details such as director, cast, and running time. It also contains questions and answers that analyze aspects of the film, such as how the factory is organized with bosses, managers, and workers. Another question compares the differences between working during the time period depicted in the film versus today, noting that past factory work was much harder and jobs were more limited, while today education is needed for employment and automation reduces human factory workers. The document concludes with the opinion that while the film was done in a style not common now, it was generally a good film with some funny parts.

1. Modern Times
Charles Chaplin

2. 1. Technical datasheet
• Title: Modern Times
• Country: United States
• Producer: United Artists
• Director: Charles Chaplin
• Screenwriter: Charles Chaplin

3. • Cinematographer:
Rollie Totheroh and Ira
Morgan
• Composer: Charles
Chaplin
• Cast: Charles
Chaplin; Paulette
Goddard; Henry
Bergman; Chester Conklin;
Stanley Stanford; Hank
Mann; Louis
Natheaux; Allan Garcia
• Year: 1936
• Running time: 89
minutes

4. 2. Questions
 Inside the History of Industry, when do you
think the action of the film happens?
I think the film happens in the beginnings of
industrialization, because the factories were something
new and to produce goods is necesary a lot of people,
like we can see in the movie
The factories, in that moment, offered an oportunity of
jof.

5. How is the factory organised? What
elements of industrial process can you see?
It’s divided in three main groups: 1.The boss (that
controlled everybody and everything and dictates the
orders) 2.The manager (that comunicates the orders of
the boss to the workers) 3.The workers(that do all the
work)
Elements: intermediate goods, work force, managment

6.  What differences can you notice between
working during these times and working today?
I think working in these times were very hard, and also
were very complicated to find a job, not because of the
studies, it’s because there were a lot of people and a
limit number of jobs.
Today you have to study to find a job (if we aren’t in
crisis) and also not many people work in factories
because it’s all automated, so the factories use more
machines than people.

7.  Give your opinion about the film. Did you
like it?
Yes, I like the film because nowadays we don’t see black
and white and silent films, so it’s different.
In general, it was good, with some funny parts but it
wasn’t my time of film.