THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940), dir. Charles Chaplin, music by Meredith Willson. Clip 1: Dictator Adenoid Hynkel (i.e., Charlie Chaplin) addresses a rally. NOTE: This was the first film in which Chaplin included spoken dialogue. (His voice had previously been heard near the end of his 1936 masterpiece MODERN TIMES, when he sings a song to entertain an audience. It''s a brilliant and funny segment, because his character in the film doesn't know the song's words, so he makes them up, using a gibberish language! In this film, once again, he begins by speaking a kind of gibberish ... German! But in the film he also plays a second character, a Jewish barber who happens to look exactly like the dictator (!)—and in that persona he does speak comprehensible English.)

• THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940), dir. Charles Chaplin, music by Meredith Willson. Clip 1: Dictator Adenoid Hynkel (i.e., Charlie Chaplin) addresses a rally. NOTE: This was the first film in which Chaplin included spoken dialogue. (His voice had previously been heard near the end of his 1936 masterpiece MODERN TIMES, when he sings a song to entertain an audience. It''s a brilliant and funny segment, because his character in the film doesn't know the song's words, so he makes them up, using a gibberish language! In this film, once again, he begins by speaking a kind of gibberish ... German! But in the film he also plays a second character, a Jewish barber who happens to look exactly like the dictator (!)—and in that persona he does speak comprehensible English.)