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Splinters: October – short essays on the here & now

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Splinters: October – short essays on the here & now
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WE’RE NOT ALL IN THE SAME BOAT
by Leonie Rushforth

"It touched me more than any other film I made", Chaplin later said of The Immigrant, filmed in 1917, the same year the US government passed a draconian immigration act that was to radically reduce immigration into America.