Charlie Chaplin hone his craft as he moved to the Essanay, Mutual, and First National corporations. By 1918, he was one of the best-known figures in the world. In 1919, Chaplin co-founded the distribution company United Artists which gave him complete control over his films. His first feature-length film was "The Kid" (1921), followed by "A Woman of Paris" (1923), "The Gold Rush" (1925), and "The Circus" (1928). He refused to move to sound films in the 1930s, instead producing "City Lights" (1931) and "Modern Times" (1936) without dialogue. He became increasingly political, and his next film "The Great Dictator" (1940) satirized
Feature film film, but it is more accurately characterized as a sports program as it included the full unedited boxing match. In 1900, the documentary film "In the Army" was made. It was over 1 hour in length and was about the training techniques of the British soldier. Defined by length, the first dramatic feature film was the Australian 70-minute film "The Story of the Kelly Gang" (1906). Similarly, the first European feature was the 90-minute film "L'Enfant prodigue" (France, 1907), although that was an unmodified record of a stage play; Europe's first feature adapted directly for the screen, "Les Misérables", came