There’s a French blu-ray of their films that’s just amazing (no English subtitles - but, then again, they’re all silent films). Seen in hi-def, it’s literally like going back in time.
Somewhere there is a film of similar vintage of some English people crossing a bridge. The guys all had the heel-less gait we see in Charlie Chaplin’s hobo stuff. It got me to wondering if Chaplin’s floppy footing wasn’t a caricature so much as an accurate presentation of the times.