HUNDREDS of unseen gags written for Charlie Chaplin films have been found in the archives of the silent movie star.

Chaplin was a meticulous note taker, keeping records of every take during filming. Analysis of his “registers of scenes” by Paul Duncan, a historian researching a book about Chaplin’s work, identified the gags that fell on the cutting room floor.

“Reading the gags is like a thousand more [Chaplin] movies in your head that you’ve never seen before,” said Duncan, whose book, The Charlie Chaplin Archives, will be published by Taschen Books in July.

Some of the gags had been intended for inclusion in The Gold Rush, the 1925 classic in which Chaplin played his famous little tramp character.

In one, the tramp dreams that