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Hi, Here are a few recent books that have Chaplin-related materials in them: 1) 'The A List: The National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films.' Edited by Jay Carr. Has an interesting es
...know where someone might have a Chaplin Mutoscope reel for sale. That's the drum, surrounded by a 'flip book' of 900 frames which, when placed into the machine, a person puts in a penny, turns a crank...
I recently acquired the book 'Charlie Chaplin And His Times' (1998), by Kenneth S. Lynn, and I've found it to be immensely eye-opening. Lynn seems to have done certain Chaplin research for the first t
...site displays a photo of her aiming a rifle from a back porch, will have none of this. Her farrago of a book pilfers the latest scholarship in the hopes of creating some shock and awe about an immense...
...able in two editions - a normal 2 DVD set, and a 'deluxe' edition which comes with 20 more pages in the booklet, and a handful of large postcard-sized photos in a square box. This is quite nice, but n...
I ran across a copy of Gerith von Ulm's 1940 book 'Charlie Chaplin, King of Tragedy' and am considering buying it. Has anyone read this, and if so, what are your comments on it? Thanks - Rob
Found this on alt.movies.silent: Yah! Who wants ta watch all dose stinkin' silent moovies? All dat readin' hurts ma eyezzzz.... Leslie (who can't help but think that Leonard Maltin was right...)
...lling to do some 'detective work' if someone could narrow down the list for me. I found an out-of-print book at the library that describes all the shorts and have found several close matches, but ther...
...ht I'd mention to Chaplin fans that some of the out of print Image DVD's are still available at Borders Books. If your from the Boston area and close to the Peabody, MA Borders Books store, I saw the ...
...negative? If so, there COULDN'T be footage that repeats!). Uh, oh. Also note that the little Robinson book reproduces a scrapbook page that has an original introductory title card from Kid Auto Race...
...London Music Halls'. It's a 4-CD set that comes with what is likely an exhaustively-researched 132-page book (the set is put out by the German company Bear Family; those of you who are familiar with B...
I just borrowed this book from the library. Have any of you read it? If so, what did you think about it.
...voice thick with frustration. ''And no one has even heard of Captain Mechanico!'' We leafed through a book of recently discovered photographs of Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin was one of my father's heroe...
Hi, Came across this not-yet-published book online. It's called 'Unseen Chaplin,' edited by photographer Michel Comte. According to the blurb at Amazon, it'll be a $50, large-format book, with an in
Hello, all, :) I know that some here may not like people posting things for sale here but I have a book titled “ERNST LUBITSCH: Laughter In Paradise” by Scott Eyman. It is a biography of the fam
The Cineteca di Bologna (http://www.cinetecadibologna.it/) has released a beautiful bilingual book on LIMELIGHT, apparently the first in a series accompanying their 'Project Chaplin' restorations. A f
Does anybody know any sources (books, magazines, internet, etc.) that have any info on Chaplin's supposed intent on making a film on Napoleon OTHER than the books Charlie Chaplin His life and art and
...cial and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover_. In addition to being very well-written, the book is also formidably well-researched. Given what we know about Chaplin in general and _The ...
...reissue window card for Sunnyside (billed as one of his first caricature drawings), and a Dictator pressbook along with Hirschfeld's diary from Bali talking about Chaplin's 1932 visit. At 98, Hirsch...
...and Roosevelt said to Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau: 'I want Moe Annenberg for dinner.' A new book on the life and career of the Annenberg's has been published and the author (according to a...
A couple of weeks ago I'd asked about the images in a 1915 flip movie of Charlie that I own. David T. responded that these were drawings - but I think that they're simply heavily retouched photographs
...ppointed to see that the opening scene of 'The Champion' of Charlie with his bulldog, as described in a book I read, was missing, and the short was scored with an inappropriate jazz vibraphone track. ...
...eone with his same build doing a terrific impression of him! If you check pg. 209 of David Robinson's book, he mentions a ball game played between a team of movie dramatic actors and a team of movie...
Now I have read in books that there is a man called Tom Wood who plays parts such as 'patient' or 'peseant'. But what does he look like? He is always listed amongst a group of people.
I bought a book called 'Silent Cinema' this past weekend. It's a British book, and in it they reproduce a still from 'Kid Auto Races' that's NOT the still I've usually seen. The one I usually see has
...'s Chinese Theater but i have never seen Chaplin's on any of these postcards- I have also seen souvenir booklets and magazine format items from the Chinese Theater also and there are always pictures o...
... prepared The Charlie Chaplin Collection for DVD. The first wave of the collection streets July 1 (prebook May 20), with four Chaplin classics...
... to the originals), 'Kid Auto Races' needs the title reinserted that can be seen in the little Robinson book, as well as the last minute of the film (from 'The Pest') added to the Blackhawk version. I...
...he scene in which she throws the pearls out the window) a location shot or a studio shot? I have an old book called _Hollywood Crazy Quilt_ that is written by an LA tourist about her 1922 visit to Hol...
... 10 or 11. Over the years I have read My Autobiography and several others that I have picked up at used book stores. I also own the box sets Chaplin The Collection Volume 1 and 2. The Kino chaplin rel...
...el, San Francisco and New York. Please contact me if you have anything rare and interesting to sell - books, photos, glass slides, magazines, postcards, models, etc. Stephen Burstin...
According to John Russell Taylor in his book on Hollywood emigres, 'Strangers in Paradise,' a hard-up Bunuel created some gags for Chaplin to use in THE GREAT DICTATOR. The material wasn't used, but
Three or four similar shots appeared in the booklet included with the latest Mutual laserdisc box set. And one was reproduced in Limelight to illustrate an interview with David Shepard on the occasion
... many times over the years about Chaplin's days at Keystone. She didn't like him. Betty Fussell, in her book 'Mabel,' says, 'Minta Arbuckle thought Chaplin vulgar because he came from 'a low-caliber f...
...rage member, Henry Bergman owned a restaurant, Henry's. Chaplin, according to Scott Eyman in a recent book, ate there regularly, influenced its steaks-and-chops menu, and was the financial backer. ...
.... It is not a pretty process,' Hirschfeld told Reuters in a 1999 interview. His work also appeared in books and the collections of museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. Then...
...ng production technique was even copied by other filmmakers of the day. ''I found this in two different books,'' he said. Charlie Chaplin, on the other hand, was so cheap he hired stage hands to bui...
Here is an excerpt from Jack Spears' book 'Hollywood: The Golden Era.' 'Mabel Normand had no illusions about her talent as a director. As she told Robert Florey in 1922: 'It would be pretense to say
...ures,' Chaplin says that the Mutual period was the happiest of his whole career. He says that in both books. But what he doesn't say is what he thought about the films themselves. In 'My Life in Pic...
...t 12-13 at the time. I had been acquainted already with Laurel & Hardy & I had recently bought my first book that I CHOSE to buy...
I was searching through ABE books and saw this: . Seldes, Gilbert. THE MOVIES COME FROM AMERICA. With a Foreword by Charles Chaplin. 1937. It also said that the illustrations were done by Walt Disne
I was thumbing through the book Agee on Film at the library the other day. In one of his columns, James Agee mentions in passing that the English translation of Verdoux is 'Mildworm' or 'Mild Worm' or
I was perusing thru Borders Books website & came upon a Chaplin documentary called 'Chaplin: His Life & Films.' I've never seen or heard of this video. Has anyone else here seen it? Leslie (who has
...like I struck out with the pseudo-'Barroom Floor' image, so I'll try again... Everyone break out your booklet that came with the most recent laserdisc set of the Mutuals. Turn to the 3rd page from t...
... #1-5 (DVD/Silent) DVD-9-9041 $49.99 Rated: NR MADD:Madacy DVD VAR. 241 min. UPC#056775010690 Comedy Prebook: 01/05/99 Street Date: 02/02/99 Features: B&W Charlie Chaplin Includes (all films 1914 unle...
I noticed a lot of posts recently using terms like 'un-American' or 'American way of life'. I read a book last year titled 'The Tyranny of Words' by Stuart Chase, written in 1938 it is one of the earl
I have an interesting book called 'Chapliniana - A commentary on Charlie Chaplin's 81 movies. Volume 1: The Keystone Films.' This was written by Harry M. Geduld, and published in '87 by Indiana Univ
...read the biography and are knowledgeable of Oona's life, do you considered this to be a well researched book? On the basis of this work I think Oona, in her own quiet yet public way, was an interestin...
...s Reviews review of the soon-to-be released bio of Oona can be found at Amazon.com. Enter 'oona' in the book search....
...aps' derive from Milton's conservative bias, this is not the equivalent of saying that Milton wrote the book to 'get' Chaplin....
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