a-little-tramp:Harry Crocker and Chaplin on the set of City Lights. Harry Crocker was Chaplin’
a-little-tramp:Harry Crocker and Chaplin on the set of City Lights. Harry Crocker was Chaplin’s favourite assistant since the production of The Circus (he played Rex the tightrope walker in The Circus) and continued to work with him in City Lights. However he was fired suddenly during the shooting of City Lights, on 7 September 1929. The reason for this remains unclear because both Chaplin and Crocker never revealed it and no one in the studio could guess. Charles Maland in his book City Lights suggests a possibility. He argues that Crocker had joined story conferences from very early but after 20 months the production had not made much progress. Among 874 takes had been shot to the point, only few footage from the opening and suicide scene would make it to the final film, and Chaplin still had not figured out the solution for the first meeting scene between the tramp and the blind girl, how to show convincingly that the blind girl mistakes him for a rich man. It’s likely that Chaplin felt the need for a creative change, and Crocker was the victim. Ten years later Crocker would work for Chaplin again as a publicist. -- source link
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