Chaplin Google Doodle To Mark 122nd Birthday Anniversary
Have you noticed the Charlie Chaplin Google Doodle Tribute on google.com? Friday and Saturday the iconic colorful Google logo will be replaced by a short silent film that is in a style that to Chaplin would suffice. The tribute is to mark what would be the stars 122nd birthday. Did you know Chaplin wrote, directed and produced more than 80 movies? More Chaplin facts inside.
Ryan Germick - Google Doodler
Charlie Chaplin wasn’t just the greatest star of the silent film era; he also wrote, directed and produced more than 80 movies in a career that spanned decades and included such masterpieces as The Kid, The Gold Rush and Modern Times. He scored many of his pictures as well, and on at least one occasion served as an on-set hairdresser.
Chaplin is also one of my creative heroes. Despite being an art-obsessed high schooler preemptively bored by anything in black and white, I borrowed a VHS tape of Chaplin’s work from the library on a lark. It’s not an exaggeration to say watching it changed my life. I laughed, I cried—I cried from laughter. For the first time I realized the power of visual storytelling.
We sometimes tell small stories with Google’s logo, but for Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin’s 122nd birthday tomorrow, April 16, the Doodle team created something extra fun. For the next 36 hours the Google homepage will pay homage to Charlie Chaplin’s creative legacy with our first-ever live action video doodle.
See video here if it is no longer on google.com
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