The clip below features one of the most famous scenes from Modern Times. In it, the heartless factory manager orders the assembly line to sped up to the "limit." Chaplin's character struggles to keep up until he suffers an apparent nervous breakdown and is literally eaten by the machine that pushes him to labor at an unsustainable rate.
Questions to Consider
How would sit-downers have responded to this scene?
Would they have identified with the Chaplin character?
