Photo gently courtesy of Mr. Philippe Chappuis. Statue of Charlie Chaplin made by John Doubleday (1982) at Square Charlie Chaplin, in Vevey, Switzerland, near the home where Chaplin lived his last 25 years with his wife Mrs. Oona O'Neill, daughter of the writer Eugene O'Neill. Note that the statue has the Google hat of Mr. Chappuis, who participated in this project.

The famous photo of Charlie Chaplin's 1921 movie "The Kid", with the kid that was his partner in the movie. Copyright has expired and the photo is in the public domain. Taken from Wikipedia. This media file is in the public domain in the United States. This applies to U.S. works where the copyright has expired, often because its first publication occurred prior to January 1, 1923. This image might not be in the public domain outside of the United States (this especially applies in Canada, China -not Macao or Taiwan-, Germany or Switzerland).

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Comments

This project shows how the power of the web 2.0 can be used by us –the ordinary people- to do nice and productive things together. It follows, in some sense, the altruists’ lines that Chaplin referred in the last scene of his movie “The great dictator”. I hope that will be repeated by other people –and by me- to improve great public domain films hosted at Google Video.

Brief data of the film

Directed, produced and written by Charles Chaplin. Starring: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Jackie Coogan (the kid), Henry Bergman, Lita Grey. Photography: Roland Totheroh. Music by Charles Chaplin (composed 1971). Release date: January 21, 1921. Running time 68 min. Genre: comedy. Country: United States. Language: Silent film, English intertitles. The Kid is notable as being the first feature length comedy film to effectively combine comedy and drama, as one of the opening titles says: "A picture with a smile, and perhaps a tear..."

Mixed from http://en.wikipedia.org and http://es.wikipedia.org. More info and links in english. More info and links in your language at http://www.wikipedia.org/.

Comentarios 

Este proyecto muestra como el poder de la web 2.0 puede ser utilizado por nosotros –la gente común- para hacer juntos cosas interesantes y productivas. Sigue, en cierto sentido, los lineamientos altruistas que Chaplin refirió en la secuencia final de su película “El gran dictador”. Espero que esto sea repetido por otros internautas –y por mí mismo- para mejorar grandes films de dominio público alojados en Google Video. 


Breves datos del film

Dirigida, producida y escrita por Charles Chaplin. Reparto: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Jackie Coogan (el chico), Henry Bergman, Lita Grey. Fotografía: Roland Totheroh. Música de Charles Chaplin (compuesta en 1971). Estreno: 21 de Enero de 1921. Duración 68 min. Género: comedia. País: Estados Unidos. Lenguaje: film silente, intertítulos en inglés. El Chico es notable por ser la primera película de larga duración que combinó efectivamente la comedia y el drama, tal como dice el título de apertura: "Una película con una sonrisa, y quizás una lágrima."

Mezclado de http://en.wikipedia.org y http://es.wikipedia.org.

Escena final de El gran dictador - Final scene of The great dictator

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See note at header

The Team


I appreciate a lot the gently courtesy of the following people who worked disinterestedly translating the intertitles, and helped me to make this real:

João Ferro (portuguese)

Philippe Chappuis (french)

Davide Nonino (italian)


...coming soon more languages, depending on collaboration and/or my available time to do so.

Do you want to join the team? See at bottom!

Software used to add the captions
    

Uploader (spanish) 

 
Flags courtesy of 4 International Flags (except as indicated)


Electronic online translations for the rest of the languages:

Instituto Cervantes, Opentrad (beta), Translendium, Google translator (beta), InterTran translator, Lingvo.

As Google says in its FAQ about translations "automatic translation is translation produced by state-of-the-art technology, without the intervention of human translators. Automatic translation is also often referred to as machine translation". Well, it's an experiment, no matter if is beta or alpha. I hope you'll cooperate to improve them (I have no idea about the languages I translated using this technology). Thank you.
Note on february 09: after one and a half year since this page has been published, nobody has collaborated. One of two: nobody has been here in this page, or nobody wants to do something without payment. Both cases are sad (for me). 

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The movie


Nota: el video insertado aquí presenta solo 14 lenguas. Si la que Ud. busca no está en la lista, intente aquí.
Note: this embeded player shows only 14 languages. If the one you are looking for is not in the list, try here.

The Kid - Charles Chaplin (1921)

See note at header 

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Is it your language below, but it isn't above?

Abkhazian Afar Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Armenian Assamese Aymara Azerbaijani Bashkir Bengali Bhutani Bihari Bislama Breton Bulgarian Burmese Byelorussian Cambodian Corsican Croatian Czech Dutch Estonian Faeroese Fiji Frisian Gaelic Georgian German Greenlandic Guarani Gujarati Hausa Hebrew Hindi Indonesian Interlingua Interlingue Inupiak Irish Javanese Kannada Kashmiri Kazakh Kinyarwanda Kirghiz Kirundi Kurdish Laothian Latin Latvian Lingala Lithuanian Macedonian Malagasy Malay Malayalam Maltese Maori Marathi Moldavian Mongolian Nauru Nepali Occitan Oriya Oromo Pashto Persian Punjabi Quechua Rhaeto-Romance Romanian Samoan Sangro Sanskrit Serbian Serbo-Croatian Sesotho Setswana Shona Sindhi Singhalese Siswati Slovak Somali Sudanese Swahili Tajik Tamil Tatar Telugu Thai Tibetan Tigrinya Tonga Tsonga Turkmen Twi Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek Vietnamese Volapuk Wolof Xhosa Yiddish Yoruba

Or the automatic translation of your language needs to be improved?

The text to translate is less than a page. It is here.

Then, perhaps you want to join the team... contact me! 

Requirements: to have wishes to do it / to be older than 18 years old / to have a nice(*) website / to have e-mail / to speak english.

[* nice website means: no violent, racist, discriminatory, pornographic,... or similar site]

The End

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