Pay Day by Charles Chaplin

Music composed by Charles Chaplin (1972), Musical associate: Eric James
Restored for live performance by Timothy Brock (2004)

Synopsis

Charlie is a labourer working on a building site. At the end of the day’s work he joins his mates in a bibulous evening, then makes an accident-ridden journey home. He tries not to awaken his fearsome wife, by sleeping in the bath tub – which proves to be full of water. As soon as he falls asleep, the alarm clock goes off, his wife wakes up, and throws him out to go to work.

Technical Specifications

• Screening time: 26 minutes
• 35 mm and digital formats available
• Projection speed for 35 mm: 20 frames per second. Ratio: 1:1.33 (full aperture/frame), 589 m.
• Mute, no sound effects

Instrumentation

• 2 Flutes (II dbl. picc.)
• oboe
• Clarinet
• Bass-clarinet

• Bassoon

• Horn
• 2 Trumpets

• 2 Trombones

• Percussion (2 players)
• Harp

• Guitar

• Strings: 8.6.6.4.2 (min: 6.4.4.2.1)

• List of Percussion: Timpani
  Snare drum
  Bass drum
  Large cymbals
  Suspended cymbal
  Choke cymbal
  Tambourine
  Triangle
  Wood Block
  Glockenspiel
  Xylophone
  Marimba
  Vibraphone

Trailer of Pay Day

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Listen to the Music

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• A Dog's Life
• Shoulder Arms
• Sunnyside
• A Day's Pleasure
• The Kid
• The Idle Class
• Pay Day
• The Pilgrim
• A Woman Of Paris
• The Gold Rush
• The Circus
• City Lights
• Modern Times