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What a great photo
1918

Posted on 01/15/2014 11:27:21 AM PST by Borges



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Douglas Fairbanks holding up Charlie Chaplin on Wall Street in 1918.
1 posted on 01/15/2014 11:27:21 AM PST by Borges
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To: Borges
Interesting.

Charlie Chaplin, a communist, on Wall Street.

2 posted on 01/15/2014 11:29:08 AM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: Borges
Amazing!

What's the story ?

3 posted on 01/15/2014 11:29:38 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: Borges

Were all those people assembled there just to see Chaplin?


4 posted on 01/15/2014 11:30:18 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: Borges

Hey, where are all the slobs in the crowd wearing shorts, tank tops and shower sandals? Oh, that’s right, this is not modern-day America.


5 posted on 01/15/2014 11:33:07 AM PST by Signalman
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Oh, ok. It was a rally to sell Liberty Bonds, presumably for WWI.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/41581089/Chaplin-and-Fairbanks


6 posted on 01/15/2014 11:34:29 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: Borges
nice.


'Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks Selling Liberty Loans During the Third Loan Campaign at the Sub-Treasury Building on Wall Street, New York City'


7 posted on 01/15/2014 11:36:30 AM PST by Theoria (End Socialism : No more GOP and Dem candidates)
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To: mountn man

Chaplin was not a communist.


8 posted on 01/15/2014 11:37:13 AM PST by Borges
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To: Borges

What a stupid photo.


10 posted on 01/15/2014 11:40:46 AM PST by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: Borges

Fairbanks was very brave. Remember, this was before hand-sanitizers.


11 posted on 01/15/2014 11:44:52 AM PST by Kenny Bunk (This GOP is dead. What do we do now?)
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To: Borges

1.Fairbanks has his hand up his ass.

2.Who`s the midget?


12 posted on 01/15/2014 11:45:04 AM PST by Para-Ord.45 ( Americans, happy in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own dictators.)
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To: Borges

Oh man, the hat manufactures sure were making loads of money back then! Suits too!


13 posted on 01/15/2014 11:49:09 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 ((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
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"Hey, where are all the slobs in the crowd wearing shorts, tank tops and shower sandals? Oh, that’s right, this is not modern-day America."

+1!

14 posted on 01/15/2014 11:50:52 AM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: Borges

That’s about 5 years after fedzilla and the Federal Reserve began HOLDING UP all the rest of us.


15 posted on 01/15/2014 11:51:40 AM PST by Dick Bachert (Ignorance is NOT BLISS. It is the ROAD TO SERFDOM! We're on a ROAD TRIP!!)
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To: Borges

For those behind a firewall, you need to truncate the “https”


16 posted on 01/15/2014 12:04:05 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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To: Borges

There are a few guys without hats. Wonder what was thought of those guys.


17 posted on 01/15/2014 12:05:06 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Signalman

Also, it does not look like there were any, if many women there.


18 posted on 01/15/2014 12:07:29 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: Borges; mountn man
Chaplin was not a Communist

From a generally fawning Wikipedia entry:

Chaplin again vocalised his political views in Monsieur Verdoux, criticising capitalism and arguing that the world encourages mass killing through wars and weapons of mass destruction.

Because of this, the film met with controversy when it was released in April 1947; Chaplin was booed at the premiere, and there were calls for a boycott. Monsieur Verdoux was the first Chaplin release that failed both critically and commercially in the United States.

The negative reaction to Monsieur Verdoux was largely the result of changes in Chaplin's public image. Along with damage of the Joan Barry scandal, he was publicly accused of being a communist. His political activity had heightened during Second World War, when he campaigned for the opening of a Second Front to help the Soviet Union and supported various Soviet–American friendship groups.

He socialised with known communists, such as Hanns Eisler and Bertolt Brecht, and he attended functions given by Soviet diplomats in Los Angeles. In the political climate of 1940s America, such activities meant Chaplin was considered, as Larcher writes, "dangerously progressive and amoral." The FBI wanted him out of the country,and early in 1947 they launched an official investigation.

Chaplin denied being a communist, instead calling himself a "peacemonger", but felt the government's effort to suppress the ideology was an unacceptable infringement of civil liberties. Unwilling to be quiet about the issue, he openly protested the trials of Communist Party members and the activities of the House Un-American Activities Committee.

So apparently he just walked and talked like a duck?

19 posted on 01/15/2014 12:09:49 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Borges
Good photography is made of light, composition, and subject matter. This picture has a striking subject matter, is good enough on the light, and is a love-letter to the compositional "rule of thirds" & "diagonals":


20 posted on 01/15/2014 12:18:08 PM PST by Yossarian
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