Charlie Chaplin gets birthday 'doodle' from Google

Google Doodle team member Mike Dutton portrays Charlie Chaplin in a tribute video posted on the site's search page. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Charlie Chaplin is commemorated with a Google "doodle" for his 122nd birthday
Honor for the iconic silent film star is the first time Google has done a video doodle
The short black-and-white film stars members of the Google Doodle team
(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."

The project is the work of the Google Doodle team, which is devoted to sprucing up Google's plain search page with colorful images to commemorate holidays or other noteworthy dates or events.

For Google, doodles are oodles of fun

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