Top Image - Last Edit 1971
"Awkward ass" as Charlie looks up to see garbage dumped from windows. Personally, never quite got this: who was being awkward?

Bottom Image - 1950s Reissue
The "Awkward ass" intertitle actually corrected a problem in Chaplin's film editing for his 1971 re-edit. The 1950s reissue film shows this scene perfectly. But, seeing it side by side with the 1971 film, I found about 24 frames of film missing from the 1971 film. Chaplin's solution? He placed in an intertitle "Awkward ass."




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