unknown chaplin be a three part television series produce from outtake and film clip edit from most of charles chaplin well know film . the first part focus primarily on the mutual period when chaplin make twelve film in sixteen month . the film cover how chaplin form his own stock company to make film with much in the way john ford would do a couple decade later . the film focus on the floorwalker and the count and the cure and and the immigrant and while include clip of the pawnbroker and the adventurer . the film indicate how chaplin rehearse on film by view daily rush and re shoot scene multiple time and how some gag work by exploit the variance in camera speed and and how edna purviance be not a trained actress and have to be shape by chaplin direction . the second part of the film focus on the kid and the gold rush and and city light . it include interview with jackie coogan and lita grey and georgia hale and robert parrish and virginia cherrill and and sydney chaplin . a great deal of time be spend on the location shoot for the gold rush and the many highlight from that film . most interesting be the initial introduction of the tramp and the flower girl scene in city light . chaplin have to solve the dilemma of how to make it plain to the audience that the blind flower girl think the tramp be a rich man . it take a year and a half of patience and countless retake for chaplin to solve it . the third part of the film focus mostly on the circus and the uncompleted film the professor and but it also include tidbit from city light and modern time and the great dictator and and limelight . the third part showcases mostly scene which be cut from chaplin final edit of his film influence some of his early silent picture have on his later and more famous film . the film show how chaplin play an important role in the development of early cinema and combine his own artistic vision with the unbridled mayhem of his mack sennett day at the keystone company . many of chaplin stock company get substantial screen time and include edna purviance and eric campbell and albert austin and henry bergman and john rand and and loyal underwood . major disappointment be the film omission of chaplin post limelight work and monsieur verdoux and and a woman of paris and a box office failure upon it release now regard a one of chaplin most important film and an adult film ahead of it time . james mason narrate the film with appropriate earnestness . half of 4 star .