118: The Lunatics Have Taken Charge of the Asylum

Vaslav Nijinsky visits Charles Chaplin on the set of Chaplin’s current production, Easy Street, in January 1917.

 
The United States experienced an economic boom during the Great War. The motion picture industry grew rapidly, and the most famous name in cinema was Charles Chaplin. Vaslav Nijinsky and the Ballets Russes tour the US, and Nijinsky visited Chaplin’s studio. (See photo above. Nijinsky and Chaplin were both 27 years old when this picture was taken.)

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Fanfare

Opening War Theme

Music from Sam Fox Moving Picture Music Volume 1
by J.S. Zemecnik. Published in 1913. Public domain.
Performed by Richard Frolich and the Texas Radio Theatre Company and used pursuant to a Creative Commons CC BY 3.0 license. Source and source.

Closing War Theme

 

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