Charlie Chaplin gets birthday 'doodle' from Google

[Evil Eye]

(CNN) -- He's a comedy and cinema legend, a man still cited as an inspiration decades after his death.



And now, in honor of what would have been his 122nd birthday, Charlie Chaplin has inspired one of the most ambitious Google doodles ever.



On Friday, the space on Google's homepage that usually contains its multicolored logo instead featured a black-and-white YouTube tribute to Chaplin, whose birthday is Saturday.



The short silent film is Google's first-ever video doodle and was created with the help of the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum.



True pieces of art, Chaplin's films still feel fresh today even though some of them are nearly a century old, Ryan Germick, a member of Google's Doodle team, wrote on the company's official blog. We hope that our homepage gets people talking about his work and the many virtues of silent film.

More: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/04/15/charlie.chaplin.google/

 

[Jazzy]

I

Charlie Chaplin and have probably seen all his movies. Can't wait to see this on Google!

 

[Evil Eye]

It's already up, Jazzy