{"id":24578,"date":"2021-06-01T07:13:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T12:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=24578"},"modified":"2021-06-07T09:14:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T14:14:45","slug":"smile-new-stuff-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/24578","title":{"rendered":"Smile (New Stuff Tuesday)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/smile.jpg\" alt=\"Smile: How young charlie chaplin taught the world to laugh and cry book cover\" height=\"250\"><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A brief and impressionistic-feeling introduction to one of the early stars of movie entertainment. Without Charlie Chaplin, it&#8217;s been said movies today would not exist in their current form. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His early life in England &#8212; impoverished childhood with stints in the poorhouse, early and almost accidental moments on stage illustrating to him the thrill of making people laugh &#8212; are sketched out in multimedia and papercut collages, by Caldecott-winning artist Ed Young. (Amazon reviews told me to flip through the pages to animate the Little Tramp character in the bottom right corner, in a likely homage to the &#8220;flip books&#8221; that helped to create early animation!) The book ends relatively early in his career, when he&#8217;s gone to America, been &#8220;discovered&#8221; by Hollywood filmmaker Mack Sennett, and creates his famous Little Tramp character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I found the Afterword more interesting for its further biographical details: I see parallels to today&#8217;s multitalented artists like Lin-Manuel Miranda who are known to &#8220;do it all&#8221; in the arts business: Charlie was &#8220;Actor, writer, director, composer, songwriter, editor, producer, and distributor&#8221; &#8212; wow! If you want to see a sample of his work, see this collage on YouTube, featuring his songwriting skills in &#8220;Smile&#8221; (though sung by Nat King Cole in this video), combined with clips from his movies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5rkNBH5fbMk\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Smile:<br>\nHow young Charlie Chaplin taught the world to laugh (and cry)<\/strong><br>\nby Gary Golio, illus. by Ed Young<br>\nNew Arrivals, 2nd Floor<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wisconsin-uww.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01UWI_WW\/187b01d\/alma991015838325602133\">921 Cha  <\/a>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief and impressionistic-feeling introduction to one of the early stars of movie entertainment. Without Charlie Chaplin, it&#8217;s been said movies today would not exist in their current form. His early life in England &#8212; impoverished childhood with stints in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/24578\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7252,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-stuff-tuesdays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24578"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24581,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24578\/revisions\/24581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}