To Receive His Genius

When Charlie Chaplin was born in the spring of 1889 there was no film industry. He would have shone on any stage anyhow, but that wouldn't have been all of it. That wouldn't have been the important part of it.

The "Cinematographe" debuted in 1895, when he was six years old. There followed a rapid succession of improvements that kept pace with the growing boy, so that everything was in place, and ready when he was.