Just watched "The Kid" for the first time expecting a silent "Three Stooges" sort of film. I was captivated by the depth of Chaplin's work, and of silent films in general.

I'm not a connosieur of cinema, and my initial expectations for silent films must have been set by those GIFs of Buster Keaton regularly posted on Reddit.

All in all a very pleasant surprise.

Just wait til you see City Lights! Impossible not to cry at the end.

The General (Buster Keaton, not Chaplin, but mentioned here) is a film that holds up even for a modern audience.

As for poverty: my Mom always used to say, "We didn't have any money, but we had fun."

The Internet Archive has a lot of Charlie Chaplin films:

https://archive.org/search.php?query=Charlie+Chaplin&sin=&an...

A search more focused on movies and films:

https://archive.org/details/moviesandfilms?query=Charlie+Cha...

Teh machine!!!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GY1Xg6X20

i like the treatment "Great Dictator" gets in the "Iron Sky" movie.