MODERN TIMES

Mª del Rocío García Corral

Title: Modern times Country: United States Producer: United Artists Director: Charles Chaplin Screenwriter: Charles Chaplin Cinematographer: Williard Nico Composer: Charles Chaplin Cast: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry

Bergman, Chester Conklin, Stanley Stanford, Hank Mann, Louis Natheaux, Allan Garcia

Year: 1936

Film’s information

1. Inside the History of Industry, when do you

think the action of the film happens?

The Industrial Revolution

2. How is the factory organized? What elements

of the industrial process can you see?

It is organized hierarchically, first there’s a

boss that commands the rest of the workers.

The workers work specifically in something,

and there’s a boss for that specific work. Then

the management is the ones that provides

and tests new products.

We can see the raw material, the technology,

the management and the workface.

Questions

3. Describe the work in the factory? Is there division of

labour?

The product passes through all the people who work

there; each group of workers giving the product a

different treatment to make the final product.

There’s division of labour:

-Technical division of labour: Because there were

different types of specific works.

-Social division of labour: Because there were works

more important than the others.

4. What differences can you notice between working

during these times and working today?

There aren’t a lot of differences, but maybe one of them

is that now we have more machines that make the

work; therefore we have unemployment.

5. Give your opinion about the film. Did you like it?

I was interesting and funny, it shows how a factory

works without making it a boring documentary. I

liked it.