Charlie Chaplin take in "The Kid". For "The Immigrant", a 20 minute-short, Chaplin shot 40,000 feet of film – enough for a feature-length. Describing his working method as "sheer perseverance to the point of madness", Chaplin would be completely consumed by the production of a picture. Robinson writes that even in Chaplin's later years, his work continued "to take precedence over everything and everyone else." The combination of story improvisation and relentless perfectionism – which resulted in days of effort and thousands of feet of film being wasted, all at enormous expense – often proved taxing for Chaplin who, in frustration, would
Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!) Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!) Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!) is a 1980 American/French animated comedy-drama film produced by United Feature Syndicate and distributed by Paramount Pictures, directed by Bill Melendez and Phil Roman. It was the 4th full-length feature film to be based on the "Peanuts" comic strip, and was followed 3 years later by a 1983 television special, "What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown?", in which the gang sees memorials and places related to World Wars I and II. It also use the same voice cast that worked on the 1979 Peanuts