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.... Has anyone seen these? They are quite economically priced at about 10 Euros each, and contain at least 30 Keystone titles (plus TILLIE), so I'm very tempted to order a couple samples. It would, of c...
...) also went out of their way to hire people associated with Chaplin. Director Arvid Gillstrom had worked at Keystone, as had Charley Chase. Leo White, fresh from his work expanding 'Burlesque on Carme...
...this film after the big theatres use it.' It is possible that a portion of an orignial theatrical Mutual, Keystone or First National could survive as a nitrate 35mm toy projector trim, provided they...
...tion before, but I'll try again. Where, besides the Madacy tapes/dvds, can I get good copies of the Chaplin Keystone films? I have the Madacy vhs box sets, as well as a couple other tapes, and the Til...
I have just recieved Grapevine's Chaplin Keystones Vol. 1 in the mail a few days ago. I have been a Chaplin fan for years, but sadly the only videos I could really afford were the Madacys, and the sec
Wasn't there an impetus to put together as definitive a collection of Chaplin Keystone's a few months back? I would really like to be involved in this!
...' is a potential 'suspect' but I can't find this one on video. Maybe I'll have some luck when TCM shows the Keystones this week.......... I'd appreciate any of your ideas..........
...nge from good to poor and all of them seem to have the same early 20's jazz soundtrack. Also on some of the Keystone films the dates say 1920 insted of 1914. Some of these films were probably reissued...
...ne shot of two cars coming down the road towards us that repeats in the film -and I don't think an original Keystone would have had a repeating shot of ANYTHING (didn't they cut up the original film a...
I'm thinking about the possibility of recreating Keystone's original titles for 'Face On The Barroom Floor.' I don't see why one couldn't just use 16mm negative film (the same way the original guys di
...log, I came upon this, under a search for Chaplin... Brief Description: Caught in a park. United States : Keystone Film Co., 1915. 1 reel of 1 (391 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. ref print. 1 reel of 1 (9...
...nder how quickly this thing was shot and edited, for such stuff to end up in the film. Is this the norm for Keystone? Also, is there another GOOD version of this on dvd in any country?...
...e of development, because he is still finding himself. And while there are some films that look back to the Keystone days & tend to be less funny to me, there are some that look forward to his more cr...
A few years ago I picked up a video called The Origional Keystone Comedies Volume Eight. It has 4 short films that Sydney made for Keystone in 1914 and 1915. It was released by by a company called Bar
...m than 'His New Job,' but - except for some frustrating flashes of creativity - really not much more than a Keystone retread. Unlike 'His New Job,' Charlie seems to have remembered to include a pretty...
Beyond the question of the subject line, I've often wondered how ANY Chaplin films, particualrly the Keystones, could have gone missing in the first place. It seems that they were in constant reissue
...any of them have been discussed in the newsgroups, anyway, and they include: * Why re-issues of Chaplin's Keystones got the Federal Trade Commission upset * What the head of First National *really* ...
...g like he's thinking: 'What's this?!'. My point: I presume these stills taken for promotional purposes by Keystone. If so, is there a current archive available of these somewhere? Perhaps 'Her Frien...
Well, the Great Keystone Restoration Project has begun ... sort of. Rather than beginning chronologically (which I guess I'll go back and do) I began work instead on putting 'The Property Man' back to
...a new Mac G4 with iDVD and video editing capabilities, I've had a hard time getting the idea of putting the Keystones back together out of my head. I have most of them in multiple formats, and almos...
Notes on 'A Film Johnnie' 'A Film Johnnie' was originally issued by Keystone on March 2nd, 1914. No original Keystone prints are known to exist, however, and the earliest copies of the film availabl
Hi Folks, I can't find the shorts on DVD that Chaplin made when he was working in the Mack Sennett Studios. Do anybody if there are plans to produce this on DVD like the Essanay and Mutual period fr
I have a couple of questions/thoughts about the available prints of 'Laughing Gas'... From time to time (and if they're dirt cheap) I'll pick up those old 16mm 50-100 foot excerpts. Almost invariabl
Here is a somewhat rhetorical question in regard to the Keystone 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 an
...Punctured Romance.' Also, given the power the commanded in her theater contract, one would imagine that her Keystone contract would have similar provisions - indeed, I read somewhere that she personal...
Can anyone provide any info on Peggy Pearce who dated Chaplin while he was at Keystone? Information on her seems to be very sparse. And does anyone have a photo of Eric Campbell without his make-up, o
...'t think I've ever seen most of this, but it sounds like great material! I agree, this is one of his best Keystones, and I love it when he does shocking stuff like letting a baby play with a gun. Th...
Here's an assortment of Chaplin Keystone bits to chew over... Minta Durfee was interviewed many times over the years about Chaplin's days at Keystone. She didn't like him. Betty Fussell, in her book
...biography, Chaplin gives the impression that he was preoccupied during the filming, since his contract with Keystone was about to expire. It's interesting to me that he chose to make this as a two-ree...
...d in the Madacy Collection, Parts I & II? Besides the one lost Chaplin film, I mean. Are all the extant Keystone, Essanay and Mutual films included? Or are they missing something? Tom Moran...
I am trying to buy Chaplin's Keystones DVDs. Does anyone know where I could find them at all?
...CMs broadcast of the KINO digitally remastered and rescored Chaplin shorts. So far they have broadcast five Keystones (including Making a Living!!!!), 12 Mutuals and there are still more to come Dec 2...
... apocryphal ring to them, but he insists they can be documented. For instance, Mack Sennett, creator of the Keystone Kops movies during the silent film era, was said to have clandestinely greased the ...
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
... have done much better with it if he had taken another crack at it later. 'His Trysting Place' is a great Keystone, maybe his best. But if he had remade it, and refined it, (say in the First Nationa...
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
I always cited this Keystone as among Chaplin's best early work because it not only includes typical Sennett knockabout, but also is just situational enough to allow more defined characters than what
I thought I'd do a little research on the title CC used for his Keystone film A FILM JOHNNIE. According to LISTENING TO AMERICA, 'Since John was such a common English name, it came to be used as the
...ttp://members.aol.com/hynkel/chaplin.html Now if only they'd show A Countess From Hong Kong and a series of Keystones... or at least The Chaplin Revue (all unavailable in England on video!). Garen E...
...a new 10 volume set...'Chaplin, the Collection Vol ll'. Ten videos, just like the first, only this contains Keystones as well as Sunnyside, Shoulder Arms, and A Days Pleasure. Some are French. Most ar...
I remember reading somewhere (maybe in this newsgroup) that Syd Chaplin changed the titles to Charlie's Keystone shorts. This was supposedly done in the '20s. My question is, how did Syd get hold of t
Favorite 5 Keystones in no particular order - The New Janitor The Masquerader Kid's Auto Race Caught in a Cabaret His Trysting Places
I found the film 'All Muddled Up' with Charlie Chaplin by Keystone Kinescope Projection, Boston, MA in some old family things. It is a single reel of 8 mm (I guess?). The reel is dated 1924. What is t
...d primitive, especially when compared to the more refined First National productions, but some of Chaplin's Keystone shorts are significant as pioneer efforts from perhaps the most important figure in...
...ore tying himself up with an unknown in 'Making a Living'? Has anyone made any effort to find and study the Keystone product in the month or so leading up to 'Making a Living' in order to look for thi...
Does the estate of Chaplin own his movie rights? If not, who does? And is it split between his Keystone, Mutuals, Essannay's and UA's?? Anyone have a clue? Reason I'm asking is, how did Madacy get t
...utuals (and while waiting for the Essanay DVDs to be released), I've been spending a lot more time with the Keystones lately. So last night, I sat down for a few minutes with the list and 'ranked' t...
...long as she nags him. Charlie wipes his brow in relief, then jauntily walks off into the distance. (17) 37. Keystone END logo. (24)...
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