For today's collection from The Guardian Archives, we have:
an interview extract from 1966 with Charlie Chaplin;
a 2003 appreciation of Carl Dreyer;
an overview of the history of the British film industry;
a piece on Russian cinema, editing, and Vsevolod Pudovkin;
an interview with Gloria Swanson's daughter Michelle;
Charlie Chaplin the composer;
an article on Fritz Lang's ground-breaking Metropolis;
and finally
an obituary of Douglas Fairbanks Jr.