Watch the full scene on Youtube: https://youtu.be/brQVcF4DkeI In the eyes of the starving, delirious Big Jim, the Tramp is transformed into a chicken - a triumph both for the cameramen who had to effect the elaborate trick work entirely in the camera; and for Chaplin who magically becomes a bird. For one shot another actor took a turn in the chicken costume, but it was unusable: no one else had Chaplin’s gift for metamorphosis. | Charlie Chaplin