13 May
Image of the Week – 16 (Factory Workers)
This modern day scene was foretold in Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis.
Watch this trailer for the recently restored print.
Charlie Chaplin's last appearance as the iconic Little Tramp character was in Modern Times (1936). The film is a comment on the desperate employment and fiscal conditions many people faced during the Great Depression, conditions created, in Chaplin's view, by the efficiencies of modern industrialization.
Sound familiar? Watch a clip here.
Looks like that scene from Baraka of the Gudang Garam factory