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Chaplin at Keystone

Call Number

  • DVD 791.43 C464 (CEN)

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Languages

Silent films.

Performers

Charlie Chaplin.

Publication Information

Los Angeles, CA : Flicker Alley, [2010]

Physical Description

4 videodiscs (590 minutes) : silent, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (39 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

"Charlie Chaplin came to Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios late in 1913 as a little-known British vaudevillian. After a year, he had not only established his Tramp character, he also learned to write and direct his own films and achieved public recognition as a star comedian. Although Keystone did not publicize its performers by name, standees of Chaplin's likeness outside theaters sufficed to attract audiences. Some of the films, especially Tillie's Punctured Romance, remained in theatrical distribution for decades. The Chaplin at Keystone collection contains over thirty of Charlie Chaplin's greatest works. The fact that all but one of the Chaplin Keystones exist is due, of course, to the star's enormous subsequent popularity. Most of the original Keystone negatives, however, were simply printed away and the survival of all but a few of these films depends upon a very few original prints, a larger number of reissue prints, and some duped prints from later years. With the support of Association Chaplin (Paris), 35mm full aperture, early-generation materials were gathered over an eight year search on almost all the films from archives and collectors around the world, and were painstakingly pieced together and restored by the British Film Institute National Archive, the Cineteca Bologna and its laboratory L'Immagine Ritrovata in Italy, and Lobster Films in Paris. Most are now clear, sharp and rock-steady, although some reveal that their source prints are well-used and a handful survives only in 16mm. While admitting these limitations, one can now better understand Chaplin's meteoric rise, for it is possible for the first time in generations to see clearly what clever and imaginative films he made at Keystone."--Container.

Notes

"A 4-disc DVD collection of 34 restored films."--Container.

Originally produced as individual films in 1914.

Contents

  • Making a living Kid auto races at Venice, Cal. Mabel's strange predicament Between showers Film Johnnie Tango tangles His favorite pastime Cruel, cruel love Star boarder Mabel at the wheel Twenty minutes of love Caught in a cabaret
  • Caught in the rain Busy day Fatal mallet Knockout Mabel's busy day Mabel's married life Laughing gas Property man Face on the bar room floor Recreation
  • Masquerader His new profession Rounders New janitor Those love pangs Dough and dynamite Gentlemen of nerve His musical career His trysting places
  • Getting acquainted His prehistoric past Tillie's punctured romance Thief catcher Charlie et sa Belle (Charlie's white elephant) Inside the Keystone project Silent traces : the Keystone locations

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