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...g information about color Dictator footage here:
In the article it lists the company 'Mk2' as the manufacturer. I was able to find a website for what I'm assuming is that company, but it's in FRENCH...
...he 1940s or 50s.
One of the reasons why I ask is that a catalog in front of me from the Paramount Manufacturing company ca. mid-1920s points out anyone with the $ can buy abridged 35mm (nitrate) Cha...
...t hierarchy, comparing his position to Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul D. Wolfowitz's, when he was, in fact, one of a number of assistants.)
In her zeal to revive the passions of a bygone era, Coul...
... same title without drawing attention to the extent of his or her revisions is perpetrating a fraud. In fact the author is merely recasting the work for whatever aesthetic, personal or practical reaso...
...t Chaplin's alternative end to The Great Dictator must have been lost on the cutting room floor.
'The fact that something like this can be found after remaining hidden for 60 years is amazing,' he s...
... CITY LIGHTS as a sound film, and the assumption that the soundtrack, while important as a cultural artifact, is as critical to the meaning of the film as the visuals.
Because the purpose of a score...
...way a Chaplin authority. He just makes me laugh :)
I have often wondered if the movie with Downey was factual or padded with what would sell?
Were there any Chaplin family who had input into the f...
... of course, is the final listing here, that says there's a 35mm paper print on file (2 copies of it, in fact!) lasting 916 ft, and a 35mm dupe negative nitrate... well, that blows the Official Films t...
...hampioning of it?
Or, is it more likely that Shelps was correct in his original assessment (and other factors are now coloring his judgement), indicating Verdoux is more reasonably seen as a Chaplin...
...be that it appears that he is spending an inordinate amount of time drawing the lady's hinder, when, in fact, he is painting the shapely details of a vase positioned between him and the model. Once he...
...lowning around, but that's the extent of it. There's also a big exhibit hall packed with photos and artifacts, but while one photo shows Harold Lloyd, and another shows Buster Keaton (both attending H...
...dio? I thought it was enclosed stages judging from construction photos in 'My Life in Pictures' and the fact that you can see studio lights reflecting on Charlie's bedroom set. But at the same time yo...
...e even better. The problem is that the source material is also comparable to the Madacy DVDs - well, in fact, the source here seems in many cases to be the Madacy videotapes (that music sounds awfully...
At the time he said it, how widespread were the facts about what was happening in the USSR? It was a closed country, after all. Even the Russian people were ignorant of the full extent of Stalin's abu
... the other, and have varying degrees of damage. Neither, however, seems to have the original titles. In fact, the only print I've seen WITH intertitles seems to be from the same people that put out 'M...
...when the films were initially released, and that these were reduced to 16mm in the 1930's and '40's - a fact that undoubtedly helps to account for the survival of so many of Charlie's Keystone films. ...
...told tale that CC considered Max Linder his 'professor' and greatest (filmic) influence. Other than the fact that Linder pioneered character-driven film comedy, were there any more specific influences...
...shorts (and Sennett stuff in particular): am I the only one who does not find them funny? And is it the fact that they have been cut and recut through the years that possibly makes them so, or has hum...
... to the source print, but now I see it's an edit in of a different take. This can be easily seen by the fact that a top hat appears under the tambourine on the wall behind Chaplin.
Is this how the f...
... a chance to push views.
'A lot of times, it's just really an attempt to give people access to
'The fact of the matter is if you have any piece of information that is not what the corporate powers...
...lms? What to meet some silent film stars? Want to listen to silent film historians recount little known facts about silent movie stars and that time? If so, come join me this June in Niles, California...
...r the job, because when it did become a matter of tapes and forensic paper trails he knew the form. The fact that he looked and felt like Charlie Chaplin in a brothel in Naples only adds to the cream ...
...t he first used his present make-up in 1887, three years before Charles Chaplin of the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company was born. How's that for a left-handed slam?
In an interview in 'Motography'...
... thing in pictures. Even at this point, Spoor felt that the future lay with three-dimensional films. In fact, when asked by a reporter many years later why he had ordered the Niles studio closed, he e...
Me niether!!!!
WOO-HOO!!!!
CC41689 (PROUD of the fact that she's turned on by a 109-year-old dead guy!!!!!)
'Who do you think you are
...trospect, that Chaplin was trying out drama to see if he could get away with it. Some of the scenes, in fact, seem to be played absolutely straight, although contemporary audiences could have very wel...
...a's!' So that if he could explain, he should. You're the one : saying that I called him a liar, when in fact I thought he was : going to say that it was in the French version.
But you did get lazy i...
...ade to suggest that there was a point in time in which CC was NOT attuned to the public anymore. And in fact RESISTED input from the public.
I might cite as the Point of Turnaround to be at the time...
... more sensational parts of the first book?
I don't consider her any more credible 70+ years after the fact than she was 40+ years after the fact.
The book has evidential value only if what she say...
...bout his son impersonating Charlie Chaplin. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about this article is the fact that CC is being used as a subject in today's popular culture.
The article can be found a...
...s, with Eric's wife flirting with Edna's dad, etc., it becomes somewhat less interesting. I respect the fact that Chaplin was not merely a knockabout artist and was introducing plot expostion of subst...
...pating in a group which many (even other silent fans) said would run out of things to talk about.
The fact that CC's work and life (you're welcome, George ;-) ) has continuing relevance is no surpri...
...san. He was not only there, but was a relatively unbiased and disinterested observer.
Add to this the fact that Lita claimed she was writing the second book to correct Cooper's fabrications in the f...
...haplin preceded him by more than 50 years with his 1940 spoof on Adolf Hitler, 'The Great Dictator.' In fact, the number on Guido's prison uniform in 'Life Is Beautiful'...
...biography of Oona O'Neill Chaplin, by Jane Scovell? I found it to be very well written, full of trivial facts, insightful of a woman who had very few accomplishments, and tragic.
Scovell dedicates a...
...amous book, says that it was because he was already not young and not so well. However, considering the fact that we are talking about 1952, the reason for that could have been that he might have real...
Information has just come to me over the wire at this late hour...and the facts are INDISPUTABLE!
Remember the prophetic words of the animated Charlie Chaplin who said 'Sorry Ol' Top but I gotta blo
...rs,' he said in 1952, 'and even 25 years ago he was being criticized as a Socialist or a Communist. The fact is he never bothered with politics. But if anybody ever said that he was in favor of helpin...
I saw a video of 'The Circus' and hear an older man singing over the opening credits. Is this in fact Chaplin. perhaps?
Elmer Pintar
...gh school students, asking them to name their favorite films. Of the top twelve, none were Chaplins (in fact, no comedies made the list at all).
In a 1924 issue, 'Photoplay' ran the results of anoth...
...lin.)
ESSANAY - CHAPLIN BRAND
ACT I.
CONTROLLED EXCLUSIVELY BY THE (indian logo) ESSANAY FILM MANUFACTURING CO. (indian logo)
This title card is quite different than the reconstructed Essanay ...
...ously swinging cabin in THE GOLD RUSH, and others. In general, insignificance can be an achievement. In fact, the best art direction in films is often that which you are not aware of. Asa general rule...
...lin's LIMELIGHT, but is there anything known about why Chaplin also picked Snub Pollard for a part? The fact that Bo Berglund proved that Snub actally appeared in Chaplin's Essanays...
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