Unknown Chaplin

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Product Details

Director : David Gill (II), Kevin Brownlow
Actor : James Mason, Sydney Chaplin, Georgia Hale, Alistair Cooke, Jackie Coogan
Format : NTSC
Binding : VHS Tape
EAN : 9786301934947
Product Group : Video
Release Date : 2001-11-01
Studio : Hbo, (Warner)
UPC : 026359980732

ASIN : 6301934946

Editorial Reviews

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Indispensable for any Chaplin fan and important and highly intriguing for anyone who cares about film history, this three-volume series offers the outtakes and unreleased tracks of the Little Tramp's storied career. Archivist Kevin Brownlow and David Gill meticulously and ingeniously piece together previously unseen footage from Chaplin's private collection, demonstrating in part 1 how painstakingly the director developed gags in such short films as The Cure and The Immigrant. Part 2 is less essential, but offers the famous behind-the-camera intrigue of the making of his classic City Lights, a film in which pokey perfectionist Chaplin makes Stanley Kubrick look like a caffeinated, indie tyro rushing through production. Part 3 demonstrates how Chaplin recycled ideas he discarded early in his career for use in later film. It includes a historic first--one of the first extended sequences Chaplin shot trying to break out of the Little Tramp mold. Doubly amazing is how fresh and funny and effective Chaplin's filmmaking remains today, nearly a century later. --David Kronke

Customer Reviews

A Masterpiece... (2004-03-11)

I taped this off the air when it was first broadcast, then bought the LD's when they came out. Seeing that a DVD release is not likely, I treasure them-a wonderful documentary!

The most interesting one of all... (1999-11-12)

This video is mainly outtakes and shows scenes never seen before. I think this is the most behind-the-scenes you'll get. Also shows Charlie "breaking up" in some scenes.

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