Research on Metropolis and Modern Times

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Times_(film)

"The film is a comment on the desperate employment and fiscal conditions many people faced during the Great Depression, conditions created,"

"Chaplin began preparing the film in 1934 as his first "talkie", and went as far as writing a dialogue script and experimenting with some sound scenes."

"the universal appeal of the Tramp would be lost if the character ever spoke on screen."

"The reference to drugs seen in the prison sequence is somewhat daring for the time"

"music score was composed by Chaplin himself"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(film)

" the social crisis betweenworkers and owners in capitalism"

"The most expensive film of its time, it cost approximately 7 million Reichsmark to make."