Modern Times

About the film…

• Title: Modern Times• Country: United States• Producer: Charlie Chaplin• Director: Charlie Chaplin• Screenwriter: Charlie Chaplin• Cinematographer: Ira H. Morgan and Roland

Totheroh• Composer: Charlies Chaplin• Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry

Bergman, Stanley Sandford and Chester Conklin • Year: 1936• Running time: 87 minutes

1. Inside the History of Industry, when do you think the action of the film happens?

• I think when Charlie Chaplin is kicked out from his job and he have to find another job

2. How is the factory organised? What elements of the industrial process can you see?

• First the factory is organised by a boss who is he who dirictes and the other people are workers who work there.

• The elements that you can see are a lot of machinery and the tocnologui of that time.

3. Describe the work in the factory? Is there division of labour?

• The work in the factory is very difficult because the product goes very fast down the coveryor belt and the workers are doing what they have to do.

• The people in the factory do different things. Everyone do a thing.

4. What differences can you notice between working during these times and working today?

• Now the are a lot of machines than before.• Before the work that the people did it was

harder than now• And I think that before there were more

people worked than now.

5. Give your opinion about the film. Did you like it?

• I like a lot the film, it is very funny and amusing.

• And in the film you learn about the work of before, too.