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I have developed a theory about 'Why did Chaplin name his 1931 masterpiece 'CITY LIGHTS'', except the idea that it takes place in the CITY and that LIGHTS stands ...
Just posted a scene from City Lights on Chaplin Film Locations THEN & NOW at http://members.aol.com/summit1085/gerald.htm Thanks David!!
... many years as a broadcast producer, I would have strongly advised against using any footage from 'City Lights' in any city...
Not only did I cry when I first saw City Lights, I've cried at every subsequent viewing! I tend to cry earlier in the scene than most. It's the moment Charlie looks up in the window and sees...
I was informed today by a local supplier that a new 'lower cost' laser version of City Lights was due out soon. As of this writing, all of the previously issued laser titles are still availa...
Hi All: City Lights will be shown this Sunday (Nov 3rd) at the Patio Theater in Chicago. (It's at Irving Park and Austin.) The show is put on by the Chicagoland Theatre Organ Society. The Patio h...
Whose ludicrousness would that be? Yours and Connie's?
And unless *your* physiology is significantly different from mine, you have never heard a score
While I very much agree with where Tom is going with this, Hannah's characterization is, strictly speaking, accurate and descriptively significant.
Absolutely! And significantly, I think. In ...
...ars ago in a big Montreal, Canada music store, Archambault Musique.It's the original film score of City Lights recorded in 1931 with the orchestra conducted by Carl Davis.The music is superb. The...
Yes, but what do you think of screening CITY LIGHTS with a live orchestra? (:
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Book City Collectables in Hollywood (213-466-0120) has the script of LIMELIGHT for $15. Richard Carnahan
...'ve heard from Ms Jouve & she has stated that she will be distributing the '31 version of CITY LIGHTS...
... expressing our favorites. If you want to see what fighting is all about, check out two past threads on CITY LIGHTS MUSIC & JOAN COLLINS....
Wish I was. Great city!
But if I were you I'd consider going to at least some of them myself. If they're screening good 35mm prints, you're sure to see more of Chaplin than is visib...
...en to somebody talk about how the soundtrack was off by two seconds during the whistle blowing scene in City...
The prints I saw of 'City Lights' and 'Modern Times' were Interama. I don't know if they are also releasing the Keystone, Essanay and Mutual shorts. Perhaps the film forum pic...
Personally I play thematically appropriate Beatle songs while watching CITY LIGHTS I Saw Her Standing There' for when the Tramp sees the blind flower girl. 'Drive My Car' when Charlie i...
...Bartine Burkett's way of saying 'boo-lee-vard' whenever she spoke of her trips to Culver City with Buster Keaton driving down Robertson Boulevard, while making The High Sign.
Mark J...
It was me who pointed out the pole thing. I noticed he also did that in City Lights when he escorts the blind girl home (after they get out of the car).
And you are right about the fading of super...
...er night? I caught clips from Mutuals and I think Essanays and Keystones, as well as the final scene of CITY LIGHTS, which was in the tribute to editing montage (??)...
I'm not sure the City Lights and The Circus situations are directly comparable, but you raise some interesting points. Clearly, Chaplin was more concerned with getting soundtracks constructed for...
...nished!!! We're talking Batman here!! And they did include The Kid and Modern Times in addition to City Lights.But nowhere was The Gold Rush!!!!! In my wildest thoughts I will never comprehend Ba...
...list. I'm going to have to pick up a few of them myself. Right now I only have the scrore to 'City Lights' and 'Charlie! Music from the Classic Films of Charles Chaplin'
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Years ago I saw City Lights at London's dominion Theatre. It was coupled with a short. In that short there was a wonderful sequence where someone was teaching someone else how to hit a person; an...
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... it sound more like Georgia was favoring him.
the inconsistencies. Another example is the ending of CITY LIGHTS. We've discussed this before, and I know how some of you feel about this ending...
...rlie Chaplin Music Publishing Company says the address was Blanchard Hall, 233 South Broadway, Opposite City Hall. The phone number was Main 4762 but I don't think anyone's answering there n...
...mentally deranged mother (rescuing Paulette in 'Modern Times', the blind flower girl in 'City Lights', etc.); 2) the recurring insanity theme in Chaplin's films (such as the s...
I just got a Wolf Trap National Park calendar in the mail, they're presenting 'City Lights' (with orchestral accompaniment) at Wolf Trap on Friday night, July 18, 1997. I missed it 3 or...
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Yesterday, I rented CBS/Fox 'City Lights' and agree with you about the quality. The only 'Gold Rush' my rental outlet carried was Republic Pictures Home Video, and I'm ...
...of the existence of 'home movie' style footage (i.e. Barton's footage of the shooting of CITY LIGHTS) which friends and collaborators of Chaplin's may have taken on the sets of the...
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