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| Charlie Chaplin Google |
The black-and-white movie provides some classic clowning in the style of the slapstick comedian, who was a star of the silent movie era.
In the new video, Charlie is moved on by a policeman after he is spotted reading a Google newspaper on a park bench, interacts with an artist painting a Google logo and then tries to blag his way into an event without paying the $1 admission.
One of his methods for trying to gain access is by drawing a Google doodle of his own. After eventually getting the money out of the policeman he is able to head jauntily up the road with his trademark cane.
Chaplin, born in London on 16 April 1889, was also famous for his oversized trousers and shoes, bowler hat and toothbrush moustache, with The Tramp his most popular character.
His parents were both music hall performers, and their son began his official career aged just eight, having already stood in as an emergency replacement aged five when his mum's voice failed during a show.
The young Chaplin started out as part of The Eight Lancashire Lads before later joining Fred Karno's vaudeville troupe, which took him to America.
He was signed to Keystone Studios, where his film career began, and would go on to make more than 80 movies in a Hollywood career which lasted until 1967.
