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Modern Times (1936) Modern Times is a 1936 comedy film by Charlie Chaplin that has his iconic Little Tramp character struggling to survive in the modern, industrialized world. “a story of industry, of individual enterprise, and humanity crusading in the pursuit of happiness.” The film is a comment on the desperate employment and fiscal conditions many people faced during the Great Depression, conditions created, in Chaplins view, by the efficiencies of modern industrialization. Chaplin, who was always very attentive to the economic and social problems of his day, declared in 1931: ‘unemplo