Charlie Chaplin’s ‘The Kid’ Gets Vertical Makeover on U.K. Microdrama App TattleTV (EXCLUSIVE)

By Naman Ramachandran

Naman Ramachandran

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U.K. microdrama platform TattleTV – billed as the country’s first dedicated app of its kind – has adapted Charlie Chaplin‘s 1921 feature “The Kid” for vertical mobile viewing, making the silent-era film available exclusively to U.S. audiences.

The technology works by generating new image data to fill a vertical frame rather than sacrificing the original composition through cropping, with the company saying the result retains the look and feel Chaplin intended.

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