aplin was among the biggest of these silent film movie stars Pratt (The American Film Industry). This paper will examine The Gold Rush, which was produced by Charlie Chaplin in 1925 through a studio (United Artists) he had formed with Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith Lecture 10/16. Though the movie was a comedy it reflected many of the harsh social aspects of society during the gold rush and the great depression. Without the use of sound Chaplin through his extraordinary acting and directing abilities is able to put across the screen certain distinguishable characters that represented the surge of idealistic values of US culture during the 1920’s.

This film is deemed an American “classic” and is a representation of the kind of ideology Americans alternately sell and consume, challenge and defend. In The Gold Rush, a destitute “little fellow” seeks food and shelter during the Yukon Gold Rush and, as luck would have it, strikes it rich. This was exactly the ideology America was trying to put forth during its expansion. Chaplin was able to portray America as a land where dreams come true because equality and opportunity where possible. It is this form of ideology that has established America as the “land of opportunity.” The Movie industry was a perfect method of expressing these idealistic values through its ability to reach millions of people in the form of a big screen. The factory system of developing movies fit right into the expansion of capitalistic America. The movies in essence played a major role in promoting this expansion through the stories that they presented.

The gold rush was a craze that took over America in the later part of the 19th century. Thousands of people flocked towards the Klondike in

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