Unknown Chaplin

Unknown Chaplin: 3 -- Hidden Treasure, Reel 2; Reel 1 available here; Third in a trilogy documenting the results of film archivists / directors Kevin Brownlow and David Gill in uncovering heretofore unknown Charlie Chaplin film footage--rushes, outtakes, abandoned films, and home movies. Chaplin's production notes and interivews with his players help to re-create his pioneering methods and creative process in making classic silent films. This program includes sequences cut from "City Lights" and "Modern Times", as well as a scene of Chaplin performing his dance of the rolls from "The Gold Rush" at a New York party in 1926.; Search Educational Film Journals at Media History Project for references to this film, A trilogy that documents the results of cinema archaeologists who uncovered secret Chaplin film footage--rushes, outtakes, abandoned films and home movies. Uses Chaplin's production Note s as well as interviews with his players to re-create Chaplin's methods and creative processes. Episode 1: My Happiest Years (The Mutual Period, 1916-1917)-- Fragments of Chaplin's films, mostly outtakes and uncut rushes, are assembled in slate order to reveal the progression of the filmmaker's ideas. Includes fragments of The Floorwalker, The Cure, The Immigrant and others. Episode 2: The Great Director (Unknown Chaplin 1918-1931) -- Uses recently-discovered footage and rare interviews with Chaplin's actors to shed light on The Kid, The Gold Rush and 2nd City Lights. Includes interviews with Lita Grey Chaplin, Jackie Coogan and Georgia Hale. Episode 3: Hidden Treasures (Unshown Chaplin) -- Includes Chaplin's How To Make Movies, a tour of the studio he built in 1917 as a new indpendent filmmaker and brief footage of films made in Chaplin's leisure. A discussion of the advent of sound and the making of City Lights is made featuring interviews with Robert Parrish and Virginia Cherrill. (Does not circulate)