817K views · 21K reactions | Charlie Chaplin returned to the United States for the first time in over a decade to accept his honorary Oscar in 1972. He received a 12-minute long standing ovation, the longest in Oscar history. | The Academy | Facebook

Watch the full scene on Youtube: https://youtu.be/brQVcF4DkeI In the eyes of the starving, delirious Big Jim, the Tramp is transformed into a chicken - a triumph both for the cameramen who had to effect the elaborate trick work entirely in the camera; and for Chaplin who magically becomes a bird. For one shot another actor took a turn in the chicken costume, but it was unusable: no one else had Chaplin’s gift for metamorphosis. | Charlie Chaplin

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From City Lights (1931) | Charlie Chaplin