Chaplin & Co in life: to help others. Chaplin & Co Chaplin & Co is a French-Indian-British animated television series in 104 episodes of 7 minutes, produced in 2010 by DQ Entertainment and aired for the first time in France in December 31, 2011 on France 3, and next in Boomerang and La Trois. It depicts Charlie Chaplin with his friends as the Kid, for the first time in computer-generated images. The series is set in twenty-first century. Shy, awkward, and touching, Charlie Chaplin is a little man dressed all in black, wearing mustache and Bowler hat, who never separated from his cane.
Charlie Chaplin with Chaplin describing to the composer(s) exactly what he wanted and singing or playing tunes he had improvised on the piano. These tunes were then developed further in a close collaboration among the composer(s) and Chaplin. According to film historian Jeffrey Vance, "although he relied upon associates to arrange varied and complex instrumentation, the musical imperative is his, and not a note in a Chaplin musical score was placed there without his assent." Chaplin's compositions produced three popular songs. "Smile", composed originally for "Modern Times" (1936) and later set to lyrics by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons, was a hit