Back in the 1930s, Charlie Chaplin and Peter Arno, two comic geniuses working in two very different visual media, both set gags in a shipyard. What could possibly go wrong there? Chaplin's Depression-era scene shows the entirety of his tramp's very brief employment in a shipyard, while Arno's gag is set at a white-glove affair—a ship's launching. Still there was, as will readily be seen, a certain similarity to the outcome of both scenarios. The question then arises: Was Arno's 1939 cartoon influenced by Chaplin's 1936 movie "Modern Times?" Certainly there's difference enough between the two gags to leave room for doubt.
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From "Modern Times" (1936)
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| "Well, what's the excuse this time?" Peter Arno The New Yorker, July 22, 1939, page 14 |
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| https://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1939-07-22#folio=014 |
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