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Association Chaplin - Provides information on copyrights and live orchestral screenings of the performers films.
Astrocartography of Charlie Chaplin - Biography focusing on how the planetary metaphor of the Sun was reflected in his life and work. By astrocartographer Rob Couteau.
Bosse Johansson's Chaplin Page - Offers a filmography, biography and photographs. [In Swedish and English.]
Chaplin - Essay examining the actor's career.
Chaplin Fans Unite - Fan site that includes a filmography and information on documentaries, books, and Chaplin's music. Also contains a webring and message board.
chaplinmuseum.com - Located in his Swiss home, Manoir de Ban, this museum features aspects of his life and work plus other works of early motion pictures industry.
Chaplin's World - Features images, a filmography, and e-cards.
Charles Chaplin - A collection of stills from several of the actor's films.
Charles Chaplin: Hollywood Renegade - Writer, actor and director, also a notable independent producer and founder of SIMPP (Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers). Includes biography and information on his studio and music company.
Charlie Chaplin - Animated GIF depicting the performer watching himself in a movie.
Charlie Chaplin - A Web Celebration. - Series of analyitical essays, with a filmography, reference bibliography, and picture gallery including contemporary editorial cartoons.
Charlie Chaplin Archive - Contains various types of documents such as scripts, sketches, pictures, and more dealing with the movie icon.
The Charlie Chaplin FBI File - Provides 2063 pages of documents with a biography, analysis and a reader's guide.
Charlie Chaplin Forum - Discussion board covering a variety of topics relating to the actor.
Charlie Chaplin in the Machine Age - A discussion of the performer's methodology, with a filmography, bibliography and pictures.
Charlie Chaplin Meetup - Facilities enabling fans to arrange group meetings. [Registration required]
Charlie Chaplin News - Articles of interest for Charlie Chaplin fans.
Charlie Chaplin News: Topix.net - News about Charlie Chaplin continually updated from around the net.
Charlie Chaplin's Film Heroines - Analytical essay arguing that the artist's mother provided a template for his film heroines.
Clown Ministry - Charlie Chaplin - Contains a biography, film and book reviews, posters and related articles.
Discover Chaplin - Information on Chaplin's life and works. Also features licensed Charlie Chaplin products including movies, music, apparel and accessories.
Entertainment and Chaplin - Essay examining the artist's later life, with related links.
Find A Grave - Charlie Chaplin - Location of the actor's grave, photographs and biographical information.
IMDb - Charles Chaplin - Filmography, biography, photographs and links.
Picturegoer.net - Charlie Chaplin - Provides 4 scanned magazine covers and promotional images.
Rotten Tomatoes - Charlie Chaplin - Filmography with links to reviews and news items.
Taylorolgy Issue 46 - Text reproductions of contemporary newspaper and magazine articles related to the performer.
Time 100 - Charlie Chaplin - Includes a biography, concise timeline of his life and film clips.
The Unofficial Charlie Chaplin WWW Page - Links to Internet resources.
What Made Charlie Run? - Reproduction of an article commemorating the centenary of the actor's birth.

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Just hits and good performance
Loved It!
ok but not the best
Captures high energy and party atmosphere.

The Rolling Stones - Bridges to Babylon
Starring: Mick Jagger , Keith Richards (II) , Charlie Watts , Ron Wood , and Bobby Keys
Director: Bruce Gowers
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ASIN: 6305161925
Release Date: 1998-11-17

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Like any good brand, the Rolling Stones know to preserve the formula even when updating the package, and this long-form concert video underscores that market strategy. As with each of their tours since the early '80s, the quartet, augmented by a discreet auxiliary of backup musicians, gives the fans new eye candy while dishing up a familiar set list spiked with Mick Jagger's lip-smacking vocals and Keith Richards's signature guitar riffs. The visual twists are at once spectacular and conservative: a cyclopean main stage design with massive pillars (presumably the Babylonian connection), a vast oval video screen (shades of Big Brother), and a hydraulic bridge enabling a midconcert sortie into the audience, with the Stones playing a more stripped-down, intimate set on a small satellite stage. That huge physical setting doubtless made the live shows eye-filling rock spectacles, but the video crew necessarily accepts the limitations of the small screen, focusing more on close-ups of the band, rapid cuts, and racing, hand-held tracking shots to convey excitement while keeping the viewer close to the action. The evening's repertoire sticks to the band's most familiar hits, and if the Glimmer Twins occasionally slip their masks to let the routine show, the real wonder is how effectively they keep the playing focused. During the first half of the program, the band's newest songs (especially "Saint of Me" and "Out of Control") elicit conspicuously higher energy from the band, if not the audience. But just as the show seems doomed to a certain anomie, the escape onto the smaller, no-frills stage pumps up players and crowd alike, particularly when they launch into "Like a Rolling Stone," a cover that winds up sounding like a great idea too long deferred. --Sam Sutherland

Customer Reviews:

Superior Concert Video.......2006-10-31

This is by far the best concert video I own. The Stones were on top of their game at this St. Louis concert, soulful, bluesy, and rocking. The cameras stay on the band the whole time, unlike many current concert videos that seem to think the viewer wants to watch the audience. The sound is CD quality, the picture and color is vivid, the editing is tight. The highlight for me is Keith Richards' "I Wanna Hold You" and some incredible versions of many classics. The songs from the Bridges to Babylon album are excellent and it is funny how quickly some of them faded from the permanent repertoire. The fact of the matter is the Stones have enough excellent songs to do ten different concerts.

I highly recommend this DVD. It is superior to the Four Flicks, and a lot less expensive. Five Stars.

Just hits and good performance.......2006-04-06

If you must buy one Rolling Stones DVD concert...you must choose this one; no doubts about that. Great artists performance and just hits on this. I'm a new Rolling Stones fan just because this DVD. Great value!

Loved It!.......2006-02-25

Here you'll find Mick, Keith and the boys together with some "cool friends" doing what they do best. ROCK & ROLL!

They have the lovely & talented Lisa Fischer on backup vocals. She really used her "assets talents," all of them. Her voice hits all of those amazing notes that few singers will ever hope aproach.

The "really cool" Joshua Redmond joins in with his saxophone.

Lets not forget the inovative theatrics that we've come to expect from the Stones. The never disapoint me in that area. In this film they do actually cross "a bridge" to Babylon.

If you love the Stones and you love seeing them live or wish you could, this is a great way to see them!

All right, I admit it. I am a huge fan, (can't fool you) since the begining. I've spent more than I'll admit this year on concert Tickets, T-Shirts and DVD/CDs. Not to mention plane tickets!

ok but not the best.......2006-02-24

this dvd is stones but not up to their best. any stones are great so since this is fairly inexpensive i might recommend it

Captures high energy and party atmosphere........2006-01-01

This solid show has some great moments. The 10 minute Miss You version here is the best available, with the whole band acting like they never want it to end. Lisa Fischer, the awesome support singer, is in rare form as she and Mick bump and grind all over the stage. She gets in everybody's business on this one. Surprisingly, Miss You doesn't appear on Four Flicks. Neither does Its Only Rock and Roll, which is a highlight from the B-stage here. Also is a terrific Wild Horses duet with Dave Matthews and Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone-performed better here than on Stripped. Another highlight is Keith's I wanna Hold You, from Undercover. The sound is a slight step down from Four Flicks, but certainly great for when it was released. At the end we get a blazing Juming Jack Flash with Mick sporting cool shades and Keith and Ronnie weaving in and out like they're trying to outdo themselves. Lots of Fun!

The Chaplin Collection, Vol. 2 (City Lights / The Circus / The Kid / A King in New York / A Woman of Paris / Monsieur Verdoux / The Chaplin Revue / Charlie - The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin)

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Don't expect the box to last...
Superb and very entertaining
The true comedy collection
Films to Enjoy
Very good, with few complaints

The Chaplin Collection, Vol. 2 (City Lights / The Circus / The Kid / A King in New York / A Woman of Paris / Monsieur Verdoux / The Chaplin Revue / Charlie - The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin)
Starring: Charles Chaplin , and Charlie Chaplin
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The Chaplin Collection, Vol. 1 (Modern Times / The Great Dictator / The Gold Rush / Limelight)
The Art of Buster Keaton (The General / Sherlock, Jr. / Our Hospitality / The Navigator / Steamboat Bill Jr. / College / Three Ages / Battling Butler / Go West / The Saphead / Seven Chances / 21 Short Films)
Chaplin Mutual Comedies - Restored Edition
Unknown Chaplin: The Master at Work
Charlie Chaplin Short Comedy Classics - The Complete Restored Essanay & Mutual Collection

ASIN: B00017LVRI
Release Date: 2004-03-09

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The second magnificent collection of Charlie Chaplin's work is even more stuffed with goodies than the first: six feature films, a round-up of two-reelers, and a new documentary, plus a cornucopia of deleted scenes and context. Each feature is accompanied by a half-hour "Chaplin Today" featurette, in which a filmmaker comments from a 21st-century perspective. Claude Chabrol extols the wicked virtues of Monsieur Verdoux and calls Chaplin "a thoroughly modern director," while Jim Jarmusch speaks gallantly on the political satire of the problematic A King in New York.

The Kid (1921), Chaplin's first feature, relates directly to Chaplin's own hard upbringing. The Tramp adopts a street kid (Jackie Coogan), in a seamless blend of slapstick and sentiment. For A Woman of Paris (1923), Chaplin experimented: straight, adult melodrama, with no Charlie onscreen (save for a brief cameo). 1927's The Circus is prized by many Chaplin critics as pure sublime comedy, less burdened by sentiment or politics than subsequent films. City Lights (1931) is an undisputed masterpiece; the Tramp befriends a blind girl, leading to one of the great bittersweet endings in film history. (Among the extras: a priceless seven-minute deleted scene involving little more than Chaplin and a piece of wood stuck in a grate.) With Monsieur Verdoux (1947), Chaplin turned his back on the Tramp and invented an elegant lady killer (literally); audiences disapproved, but the film stands as a fascinating essay on himself. Finally, after his exile from the United States, Chaplin made A King in New York (1957), which is mostly flat, except as autobiography.

The Chaplin Revue gathers six essential short works, from the superb A Dog's Life (1918) to his last two-reeler, The Pilgrim. A separate disc contains film critic Richard Schickel's comprehensive documentary Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin, which does nicely by Chaplin's life and his working process, with keen comments from admirers such as Woody Allen and Johnny Depp. This box set is more than film history; it's a living treasure. --Robert Horton

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The wonder. The magic. The genius. Now for an encore presentation with stunning new restorations, all-new special features and more. The Richard Schickel documentary, "Charlie" available exclusively in this Chaplin Giftset. THE CIRCUS The Little Tramp accidentally becomes a big-top star in the comedy that earned Chaplin a special Academy Award?. CITY LIGHTS A forever classic - and an American Film Institute Top-100 Movie. The Tramp becomes a working man, saving money for an operation that will restore a blind flower girl's sight. THE KID The Tramp and his ragamuffin sidekick (6-year-old Jackie Coogan) triumph over life's hard knocks in the landmark film that changed the notion of what a screen comedy could be. A KING IN NEW YORK/A WOMAN OF PARIS Chaplin jabs at social conventions! U.S. pop culture is the target of his satiric A King in New York. And the whirl of French high society frames director Chaplin's tragic love story A Woman of Paris. MONSIEUR VERDOUX Killer comedy! Chaplin turns his sunny nature inside out to play a roving gent who wins the love and bank accounts of spinsters, then murders the hapless biddies.

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Don't expect the box to last..........2007-04-03

When my copy of this set arrived, I found that the set's box (with Chaplin on the cover) was just a little too big for the set itself - maybe an eighth of an inch extra space, so when the whole package got tightly shrinkwrapped, the excess space and the tip of one corner were crushed to fit around the DVDs. Not a huge deal, but it means that the box, already somewhat flimsy for the number of DVDs it houses, lost some of its structual integrity, and now doesn't support itself so well; once you take a couple of the DVDs out, it quickly loses its right angles -- the ramshackle rhombus effect. So I sent it back, and the replacement has just arrived...with the exact same problem. Of course, while Amazon makes it ever so easy to "Leave Seller Feedback" for any of its thousands of Amazon Marketplace affiliates, there is one seller for which they do not allow this option: Amazon itself. Anyway, I'm sure it's a great set, and the defect in question is minor, but it's always a little disappointing when you look forward to a new purchase, then find that it is just a tiny bit damaged before you even unwrap it. I have had this experience twice now, and I guess I'll just give up, and try not to look at what could have been a fairly handsome box. But when you get yours, set the box on a table with the DVD spines lined up in front of you, and have a look at the lower right-hand corner of the box. Hopefully, you *won't* see what I mean. But if you do, you'll find that this box would have been just perfect if the set had included one more, thin DVD.

Superb and very entertaining.......2007-01-19

Excellent variety of Chaplin movies that are worth many viewings and well-worth the price of the collection. Good quality DVD's of very old films. Monsieur Verdoux, a rare Chaplin "talkie", is dated in plot structure and appeal and includes several scenes of stilted acting (Chaplin is actually a better actor than the others in the cast). Although not of the caliber of the silent films, it makes an interesting addition to the masterpieces, if you are studying Chaplin's works and it is fascinating to hear Chaplin's voice. His physical comedy is artful, masterful, highly acrobatic, perfectly timed, surprising, and hilarious; it has not been surpassed in 80-plus years.

The true comedy collection.......2006-12-15

This wonderful boxed set completes the chaplin collection, this in my view is the better chaplin collection it includes such classics as city lights, modern times, the great dictator, and many more classics.my advice to the other chaplin fans is go out and buy the chaplin collection 1&2 before there all sold out.

Films to Enjoy.......2006-08-15

The fine Humor and art creativity found in this treasure films are incomparable. It's worth the price.

Very good, with few complaints.......2006-08-05

Once again, as with Volume 1, the main pieces of this box are first class, simply great quality reissues of Chaplins greatest (and less great) films. It's the other pieces that leave cause me to scratch my head.

So, let's start with what is good.

We have here some of Chaplin's finest silent work, including my favorite, The Circus. The films are expertly restored and projected at a speed which is about as close to the subjective "correct speed" as possible. The soundtracks are well restored, and there are plenty of cut scenes, outtakes and home movies to go along with the original films.

A couple of films are notoriously weak, and one just has to look at the box to figure out which ones those are. "Monsieur Verdoux" has only one disc, and "A Woman of Paris" and "A King in New York" actually share a 2 disc set. But these films are essential to completing Chaplin's legacy, and it is good to have them well issued and in as nice a presentation as possible.

There is a 5.1 surround soundtrack, which is really wierd, since these were issued in mono to start with. Why not just colorize the films while you're at it, M2K? (I know, some people just can't watch a film with a mono soundtrack, but this is really excessive.)

The we have the documentary by Richard Schickel, which, which good, is very frustrating. It's great to see brief clips of the Keystone films in excellent quality, but isn't it time to release the ENTIRE collection of Keystones in best-possible quality? WHEN, OH WHEN, WILL THIS HAPPEN!

Some argument could also be made that the short films in this collection could have been better considered. There are several different versions of some of these films, "Shoulder Arms" comes to mind, and it is quite possible that the version sused here are the best pictorial quality, but not the best acting quality. This is a very subjective topic, but I would have liked to see the original "Shoulder Arms" included as well, perhaps the most substantially different of the versions. This is a minor complaint, though.

The "Chaplin Today" documentaries, as in the first box set, are rather pathetic, and self-defeating in their attempts to make Chaplin relevent to today's audiences. If Chaplin wasn't relevent, then nobody would by this box set, and I wouldn't bother writing this review. But he is relevent. Trying to convice people so doesn't work, unfortunately, so we end up with these rather pathetic documentary attempts.

But overall, this is a collection of gems, and complaining about the ancillary pieces of this collection is like complaining about the floor in the room containing the Hope Diamond. It's only the actual films that matter, and they are superb.

Chaplin Mutual Comedies - Restored Edition

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The best prints I've ever seen from the 1910's!
The definitive Mutual collection of all the Mutual collections
More missing footage found!

Chaplin Mutual Comedies - Restored Edition
Starring: Charlie Chaplin
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
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Unknown Chaplin: The Master at Work
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ASIN: B000F4TMIW
Release Date: 2006-07-11

Description

Twelve films directed and written by Charlie Chaplin, with new orchestral scores composed and conducted by Carl Davis! Restored from premier quality original 35mm film! This edition of The Chaplin Mutual Comedies has been restored from the finest surviving 35mm film elements, with additions and improvements from new film materials which have surfaced since Image's previous edition. FEATURED FILMS: THE FLOORWALKER - THE FIREMAN - THE VAGABOND - ONE A.M. - THE COUNT - THE PAWN SHOP - BEHIND THE SCREEN - THE RINK - EASY STREET - THE CURE - THE IMMIGRANT - THE ADVENTURER SPECIAL FEATURES: The Gentleman Tramp: This 1975 feature-length film made from the life and work of Charlie Chaplin is narrated by Walter Matthau, with excerpts from My Autobiography read by Laurence Olivier, excerpts from the great Chaplin features, Chaplin family home movies, and scenes of Chaplin at home near Vevey, Switzerland. "This delightful film has captured the quintessence of the artist and his art and has done so in terms accessible to everyone." (The New York Times). Chaplin's Goliath: 1996 Oscar-winnning documentarian Kevin MacDonald reveals the story of Eric Campbell, the huge Scottish actor who achieved screen immortality as the "heavy" in the Chaplin Mutual comedies. "The Mutual-Chaplin Specials," an appreciation by Jeffrey Vance, author of Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema "Making The Gentleman Tramp," a reminisence by Richard Patterson Stills Gallery: This amazing DVD-ROM gallery contains more than ninety superb, rare images from the collection of Jeffrey Vance, many of them behind-the-scenes shots never before published!

Customer Reviews:

The best prints I've ever seen from the 1910's!.......2007-06-19

This is the best I've ever seen the mutuals looking. If you've only seen them on a cheapie DVD with the same Duke Ellington jazz tune played on every film, you don't know what you're missing. Every film is scored by the best silent composer working today, Carl Davis, and taken from some of the best prints I've ever seen of anything from the 1910's, which is usually barely watchable, here looks as clear as something from the 40's.

Most importantly they're fun films, funnier than Charlie's more sentimental 20's stuff.

The definitive Mutual collection of all the Mutual collections.......2006-12-10

Chaplin's Mutual-two-reelers, which by many are looked upon as the comedian's noblest work, have been brought out on video and DVD several times, always with variable quality. Some have been good, others weak.

I once heard a proverb which fascinated me, "The biggest enemy to great, is good." Well then, CHAPLIN MUTUAL COMEDIES: RESTORED 90TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION is not among the good sets; it is the greatest one out there. Not only does it include clear prints of the twelve pearls, all with beautiful musical scores composed by Carl Davis -- several of the movies, such as ONE A.M. and THE RINK, also have recently discovered footage added, available for the first time since their original release in 1916-17. This makes the collection very well worth to get even if you own all of the movies from before, like I do.

Oh well, the set would be a treat anyway, because of the special features, which actually could have worked as its own release. Especially interesting are two rarely-seen documentaries. The first one of them, THE GENTLEMAN TRAMP (78 min.) from 1975 --which I'd tried to find for years-- is narrated by Laurence Oliver, Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, and includes numbers of home movies, interviews, etc. The second documentary, CHAPLIN'S GOLIATH (54 min.) from 1996 covers the life of Eric Campbell, the heavy Scotsman who played the villain in each one of Chaplin's Mutual-comedies.

My only complaint is that while the music is very good --beautiful, really-- at times it sounds a little too dramatic or melancholic when it, in my opinion, rather should be amusing. But that's just according to my taste.

Needless to say, this collection is a "must" to every Chaplin-fan. Well worth the money!

More missing footage found!.......2006-06-25

David Shepard gave a sneak preview of these new DVDs at the Niles-Essanay Film Museum's Edison Theater on June 23,2006. I must say that while the last DVD restoration was great, this one keeps that same excellent film transfer, but adds more missing footage & title/dialogue cards from newly discovered prints.

ONE AM has the biggest improvement with a total of over 7 minutes of additional footage, I was not able to do a side-by-side comparison but there were scenes I did not remember. I do not want to spoil the comedy surprises of new footage here, you will have to enjoy it yourself.

Other shorts such as THE RINK included new comedy bits and title / dialogue cards that helped the flow & understanding of the story.

The bottom line is that this restoration does not improve on the already sharper picture quality of the previous release, but it does add missing footage not seen in the U.S. since the films' original releases.

UPDATE 7/20:
I have now had a chance to do a syncronized side-by-side comparison. While all of the other shorts are restored as mentioned above, adding new footage to the existing transfer, ONE AM is a totally new transfer.

My reaction to this new transfer is mixed. The big plus is a total of 7 minutes of new material added through out the short! In addition, the old transfer was from a print that was matted on the sides to add a soundtrack, causing a tall & thin picture. This new transfer restores the original square framed picture, adding to the sides of the picture. The negative side to this new transfer is that the complete full frame print is from a negative that is a couple more generations away from the original camera negative. This is most noticable in the opening (and longer) taxi scene. Picture details in the taxi are lost in the blacks, where the older transfer shows some vehicle details.

In a conversation I had with David, he said that trying to add the new footage to the existing footage on this title was too jarring, plus the sides of the picture were missing on the old transfer. The decision was made to go with the complete print for the whole transfer. It should be noted that the bulk of the short that takes place inside the house does not look bad and the benefits of the added picture to the sides are a big plus in keeping the new transfer.

David also stated that he was working on restoring Chaplin's Keystone comedies! If it is a David Shepard project, it is well worth getting.

The Little Tramp: The Charlie Chaplin Collection

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Charlie Chaplin 5 DVD Set from Passport Video
"The Little Tramp...Charlie Chaplin (1914-1922) ~ Passport Video"

The Little Tramp: The Charlie Chaplin Collection
Starring: Charlie Chaplin
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The Chaplin Collection, Vol. 1 (Modern Times / The Great Dictator / The Gold Rush / Limelight)
City Lights (2 Disc Special Edition)

ASIN: B000EWBOAE
Release Date: 2006-06-06

Description

Charles Chaplin was cinema's first 'superstar.' Widely hailed as a comic genius, he revolutionized film comedy. Born in London and trained in British music halls, Chaplin immigrated to America and entered motion pictures, where he developed his screen persona as the luckless 'Little Tramp' character. Soon he was directing his own films, and he refined movie comedy from pie-in-the-face broad slapstick to humorous portrayals of the human condition, combining hilarity, grace and pathos. In this remarkable compilation are the comedy shorts made during the most productive years of Chaplin's career, from when he was first starting out as an unknown comic at Keystone Studios to the last short films he made before working exclusively on features. Here are the shorts that made him famous and his 'Little Tramp' character immortal; Easy Street, The Vagabond, The Pawnshop, The Rounders, The Rink, plus many, many more! Bonus material includes rare 'Charlie Chaplin' cartoons and an ultra rare promotional film showing Chaplin out of make-up- and being waited on by the one and only Buster Keaton! DISC 1 AT KEYSTONE STUDIOS 1914 197 minutes Making a Living 10:00 Kid Auto Races at Venice 11:00 Between Showers 15:00 A Film Johnny 07:13 Tango tangles AKA Charlie's Recreation 12:00 Cruel Cruel Love 09:13 Mabel at the Wheel 15:00 Mabel's Busy Day 9:32 Caught in a Cabaret 15:50 Mabel's Married Life 14:00 The Masquerader 9:22 His New Profession AKA The Good For Nothing 16:00 The Rounders 08:20 The Rival Mashers AKA Those Love Pangs 16:00 Dough and Dynamite 18:20 DISC 2 AT ESSANAY STUDIOS 1915 218 minutes A Night Out 16:00 The Champion 31:00 In the Park 14:25 A Jitney Elopement 15:00 The Tramp 19:44 Shanghaied 27:22 A Night in the Show 23:41 Burlesque on Carmen 31:20 Police 25:39 Triple Trouble 14:33 DISC 3 1916 AT MUTUAL STUDIOS 181 minutes The Floorwalker 21:00 The Fireman 24:23 The Vagabond 22:52 One A. M. 17:00 The Count 25:20 The Pawnshop 32 Behind the Screen 20:53 The Rink 20:31 DISC 4 1917-1918 MUTUAL TO FIRST NATIONAL 174 minutes Easy Street 19:44 The Cure 20:45 The Immigrant 25:20 The Adventurer 23:50 A Dog's Life 40:00 Shoulder Arms 45:00 DISC 5 1919 - 1922 AT FIRST NATIONAL 174 minutes Sunnyside 34:00 A Day's Pleasure 21:00 The Idle Class 25:00 Pay Day 26:00 BONUS MATERIAL Seeing Stars 11:00 Hollywood Rivals: Charlie Chaplin vs. Buster Keaton 50 minutes

Customer Reviews:

Charlie Chaplin 5 DVD Set from Passport Video.......2007-04-17

I received this DVD set yesterday, and here is my review:

All the movies have watermark on them "The CHARLIE CHAPLEN (not mystype!!!) Collection", placed on right-down side of screen. Watermark is sized like big TV station logo, and when scene is bright you could just barely see it, but when the scene is dark, it shows quite good. In my opinion this is unsatisfied, because I want "clear screen" view, without any watermarks.

I bought this Collection because I' like to find his Keystone movies in better conditions then I have them already. Keystone's here presented are in my opinion overaly in better condition from the other available compilations, but unfortenately, watermarked.

Essanay studio collection is not completed, there are missing a 5 titles, Mutual studio is complete, and the First National movies are here, but without "the Kid" and "the Pilgrim". Quality of this film is so-so, not good like Image Entertaiment or MK2 editions.

The final line: Will I buy this if I knew about watermark? Probably not, because quality of most movies I'm interested in (Keystone's) are maybe little better or the same like I have already, and all other films are available in better, restored editions

"The Little Tramp...Charlie Chaplin (1914-1922) ~ Passport Video".......2006-07-12

Passport Video and Koch Entertainment Distribution present "The Little Tramp: The Charlie Chaplin Collection" (1914-1922)
(Dolby digitally remastered)...relive those days of silent comedy from the early 1900's
when Charles Chaplin took us down the path to entertaining comedy from all our daily
troubles and brought abounding laughter into our lives....some of the best routines ever
to grace the Saturday Matinee Screen...don't miss any of the Charlie Chaplin
features loaded with laughs that will leave you wanting more of his priceless antics.

VERY SPECIAL BONUS MATERIAL:
1. Features: Chaplin Cartoon (1915); Super-rare fragments of once-lost Charlie Chaplin
cartoons produced early in Chaplin's career by animation pioneer Otto Messmer, creator
of Felix the Cat.
2. Seeing Stars (1922); An ultra-rare promotional film shot at First National Studios showing
Chaplin out of makeup, being waited on by none other than Buster Keaton!.
3. Hollywood Rivals: Charlie Chaplin vs. Buster Keaton; An original documentary that takes
a fascinating look at the rivalry between these two silent clowns, told with classic film clips, newsreels,
and rare photos

SPECIAL FEATURES:
BIOS:
1. Charles Chaplin (aka: Charles Spencer Chaplin)
Birth Date: 4/16/1889 - Walworth, London, England, UK
Died: 12/25/1977 - Vevey, Switzerland

Special footnote, Chaplin's character of the little tramp with toothbrush mustache, undersized bowler hat and bamboo cane
who struggled to survive while keeping his dignity in a world with great social injustice...invented his tramp costume with the
help of 'Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle' 's pants. Arbuckle's father-in-law's derby, Chester Conklin's cutaway, Ford Sterling's
size-14 shoes, and some crepe paper belonging to Mack Swain (which became the tramp's mustache). The only item that
actually belonged to Chaplin was the whangee cane.

LITTLE TRAMP: THE CHARLIE CHAPLIN COLLECTION (in alphabetical order in which they appear)
1. The Adventurer (23:50)
2. Between Showers (15:00)
3. Behind the Screen (20:53)
4. Burlesque on Carmen (31:20)
5. Caught in a Cabaret (15:50)
6. The Champion (31:00)
7. The Count (25:20)
8. Cruel Cruel Love (09:13)
9. Cure (20:45)
10. A Day's Pleasure (21:00)
11. A Dog's Life (40:00)
12. Dough and Dynamite (18:20)
13. Easy Street (19:44)
14. A Film Johnny (07:13)
15. The Fireman (24:23)
16. Floorwalker (21:00)
17. His New Profession (aka: Good For Nothing) (16:00)
18. The Idle Class (25:00)
19. The Immigrant (25:20)
20. In the Park (14:25)
21. A Jitney Elopement (15:00)
22. Kid Auto Races at Venice (11:00)
23. Mabel at the Wheel (15:00)
24. Mabel's Busy Day (9:32)
25. Mabel's Married Life (14:00)
26. Making a Living (10:00)
27. Masquerader (9:22)
28. A Night Out (16:00)
29. A Night in the Show (23:41)
30. One A.M. (17::00)
31. The Pawnshop (32:00)
32. Pay Day (26:00)
33. Police (25:30)
34. The Rink (20:31)
35. Rival Mashers (aka: Those Love Pangs) (16:00)
36. The Rounders (08:20)
37. Shanghaied (27:22)
38. Shoulder Arms (45:00)
39. Sunnyside (34:00)
40. Tango Tangles (aka: Charlie's Recreation) (12:00)
41. The Tramp (19:44)
42. Triple Trouble (14:33)
43. The Vagabond (22:52)

Chaplin and Buster Keaton had an interesting relationship...considered rivals, Chaplin hired Keaton for a part in "Limelight" (1952)...Keaton, who was flat broke at the time, went into a career decline after having been signed by MGM in 1928...Chaplin, at this point, felt sorry for Keaton due to his hard luck...in his autobiography Keaton called Chaplin "the greatest silent comedian of all time."

Great job by Passport Video for releasing "The Little Tramp: The Charlie Chaplin Collection" (1914-1922), the digital transfere with a somewhat clean and clear print...looking forward to more high quality releases from the vintage era of the '20s, '30s & '40s...order your copy now from Amazon or Passport Video where there are plenty of copies available on DVD, stay tuned once again for top notch performances mixed with laughter...they're funny, they're sad, but most of all they're passionate...Chaplin has often been criticized for putting too much sentimentality into his films...no one did it as successfully as Chaplin...this set is invaluable for Chaplin fans...Charlie was a genius in filmmaking and his film shorts finally have the release that they deserve.

Total Time: 950 mins on 5-DVD's ~ Passport Video DVD #5880 ~ (6/06/2006)

The Essential Charlie Chaplin Collection

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Much more than a Comedy!

The Essential Charlie Chaplin Collection
Starring: Essential Charlie Chaplin
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ASIN: B0000A9D2D
Release Date: 2003-07-08

Description

40 of Chaplin's greatest short films, compiled in chronological order. B&W/700 min.

Customer Reviews:

Much more than a Comedy!.......2007-01-01

The perfect intro to your first Chaplin film, you'll find much more than comedy here in this brilliantly remastered remake of the original 1925 classic that thrilled the entire world in the era of the Roaring Twenties, just before The Great Depression.

While the filmmaker Chaplin has control over every facet of his cinematic career - he was fortunate and talented enough to have full reign under the studio system - his character "The Little Tramp" is as foolhardly and unprepared as the rest of the Alaskan golddiggers.

Casting is superb, with everyone communicating in mime. Classic scenes include his deliverance from hunger by thrusting his boot into boiling water and serving it at the table as if it were prime rib served with spaghetti (the shoelaces). Every emotion is revealed from heartbreak, terror, courage, dignity and love.

A companion DVD answers the evocative question: How was The Gold Rush filmed? Originally, the 18-month filming was attempted in snow-covered Truckee, CA, but inclement weather forced the crew to move to an undetectable backlot in Hollywood.

Chaplin writes that once he developed his Dickensonian "Little Tramp" persona, he "became" the character. Indeed, his own life began in a similar and shocking manner: he was the child of an alcoholic father and a schizophrenic mother, and did indeed rise from rags to riches as in this film.

It's well worth spending 82 minutes to watch this great human being at his finest (1889-1977) who followed his artistic dreams until the end, when he died at age 88 - Sir Charles Chaplin.

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ASIN: B0009PLLPE
Release Date: 2005-07-27

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Uneven but worthwhile
Would recommend to fans of independent film
Made me a tad Weepy!
Part of me, part of the USA, part of all of us
A so-so movie with a powerful leading cast

The Year That Trembled
Starring: Jonathan Brandis , Charlie Finn , Jay R. Ferguson , Meredith Monroe , and Matt Salinger
Director: Jay Craven
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Bad Girls From Valley High
Puerto Vallarta Squeeze
Ladybugs
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Robin of Locksley

ASIN: B0000E6FNH
Release Date: 2003-12-09

Description

A flawless ensemble cast brings to life this powerful 1970s coming-of-age drama, war chronicle and unconventional love story set in the shadow of Kent State's turbulent events. Written and directed by Jay Craven and based on the novel by Scott Lax, this "intimate, subtly riveting, and richly reminiscent" (Portland Press Herald) masterpiece follows a group of young people caught up in events that will transform their lives in ways they cannot imagine. Punctuated by authentic period footage, a soundtrack that includes 17 songs from the era, "lush cinematography and stellar performances" (Cleveland Plain Dealer), The Year That Trembled is a haunting portrait of a time when passions ignited a nation and choices became a matter of life and death.

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Uneven but worthwhile.......2007-04-17

Films about the 1960s are always difficult -- some go no deeper than the familiar media images, others fail to capture the tone of that unique time. This one does something a little different by looking at the end of the 1960s, following the lives of several high school graduates sharing a house near Kent State after the 1970 shootings. They represent a cross-section of young America at the time, with the late Jonathan Brandis our point-of-view character, aspiring writer Casey Pederson: politically & culturally a bit left of center, but no hippie or radical. (His tragic death shortly after making this film lends it additional poignancy.)

Casey & his friends are waiting for the first draft lottery, which hangs over their summer like a black cloud of potential doom. Having endured the same horrible wait back then, I can attest that the ominous feeling is captured perfectly, as well as the sense that the optimism & ideals of the earlier 1960s were fading away. We all sensed that things were going to be very different in the 1970s, nothing like the golden future of peace & understanding we had envisioned -- and the film conveys this with precision.

The low budget gives it a sort of ramshackle feeling, and at times the quality veers into made-for-TV territory. The script & acting are a bit uneven, especially at first; but as the story continues, a certain emotional power builds up. Characters are forced into narrowing corners with fewer & fewer choices, and several make the wrong ones, both politically & personally. Casey's brooding & uncertainty, his unspoken but obvious need for something genuine, for fidelity & love & faith in the future, is superbly portrayed. It rings just as true today as it did then. And Marin Hinkle gives a warm, wonderful performance as the fired high school teacher who is both guiding mother figure & troubled woman.

Sometimes the necessary intensity or insight is lacking ... but on the whole, this film is a reminder of a time when teenagers thought about more than mass market fads, and considered their place in the world & their need to make something better of it. The cost of bearing that weight, which led to both self-betrayal & rising to idealistic heights, is depicted well. They were all so terribly young.... The film will leave you with a bittersweet afterglow, and a realization that its message is all too relevant again today. Recommended!

Would recommend to fans of independent film.......2006-03-22

Not a big fancy film, but very good for a small independent film. The cast as a whole gave a great performance; Jon Brandis, in one of his last projects, was excellent. I wish this film had been given the wider theatrical release it deserved.

Made me a tad Weepy!.......2006-03-18

I've been a Jonathan Brandis fan since the days his face adorned the cover of BOP and Tiger Beat magazines. I followed his career with glee and taped every episode of SeaQuest in order to see his baby blues peeking at me from the depts of my tv. And when I found out that he had ended his life I was both heart-broken and outraged.

So when I happened across this movie, I jumped at the chance to buy one of the last films he appeared in. And I wasn't disappointed in the least. I enjoyed seeing "Andy" from Dawson's Creek and "Knox" from Angel, as well.

The trials and tribulations of college-aged kids, trying to grow-up yet still being controlled by the adults around them was enough to make me thankful my childhood was spent without too much home threats of war.

I recommend this flick to any and all who :
1. Love Jonathan Brandis (a line in the movie will break your heart, though: "I could just die right now..." Cuz - ya know - he's not living...)
2. dig a love triangle as complicated as Bermuda's, and
3. oppose War and all it has to "offer."

Part of me, part of the USA, part of all of us.......2006-03-13

I was an extra in this movie and I must say the end product does not do justice to the experience. Being just down the road from the site of the Kent State shootings, I don't think it is possible to portray the reality of the feelings of that era on a television screen. The actors were wonderful to work with and my pride for them blends over into my viewing of their performances. My favorite, by far, is Jonathan Woodward who played "Charlie", the ill-fated all-American young man who accurately represents the situations of many of the drafted soldiers. I enjoyed the various perspectives as we see the citizen who so earnestly believes in his country only to be betrayed by it (Charlie); the draftdodger who escapes to Canada (Hairball); the protester thrown in jail (Judy); the teacher who lost her job over her opinions (Charlie's wife); and the various other character studies throughout the movie. The only sad part was that we spent four hours filming a five minute scene for a section of the movie and it was left on the cutting room floor! I wish there would have been a section on the DVD for extras such as history bites, cast interviews, and definitely those deleted scenes!

A so-so movie with a powerful leading cast.......2005-07-19

Although this movie gives a nice hint at what the atmosphere probably was in the early 70's, the directing is quite poor, and it's visually completely empty.
On the other hand, the writing is solid, and the dialogs sound real and above average (except for one of Jonathan Brandis' last lines - "Take care of that baby" - which is completely ridiculous. I mean, what normal mother wouldn't take care of her own child ???).
But the best is definitely the acting. Marin Hinkle gives an incredible performance, and Jonathan Brandis, although underused (again...), manages to show what a talented, smart and brilliant actor he was.
I'm warning all Brandis fans out there : The very last scene might steal one or two tears from you...

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Three Chaplin Mutual comedies and Sennet's "Tillie"

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Charlie Chaplin 8-DVD Pack

ASIN: B00008G8OW
Release Date: 2002-12-17

Description

Includes: The Rink The Immigrant Tillie's Punctured Romance The Vagabond Menus: English • Spanish • Chinese • Japanese Subtitles: Spanish • Chinese • Japanese B&W Running Time: 133 min.

Customer Reviews:

Three Chaplin Mutual comedies and Sennet's "Tillie".......2005-05-06

The "Charlie Chaplin Marathon" is an inexpensive way of seeing a variety of silent comedies by Chaplin. It includes versions of a trio of Chaplin two-reelers down for mutual, including what is arguably the best of this shorts, and a film that has the distinction of being the first attempt at a full-length comedy (albeit not by Chaplin):

"The Rink" (Released December 4, 1916), the eighth Mutual comedy, was based on a Karno Company sketch called "Skating" that was written by Charlie's brother, Syd Chaplin. Chaplin was often inspired by the business of serving food and here he ends up a waiter who ends up in a rollers kating rink trying to keep upright. Of course, if you have already seen "Modern Times" you know that Chaplin in a virtuoso on wheels when it comes to roller skating. This time around Edna Purviance is the Girl, while Eric Campell is one of her admirers, Mr. Stout, and Henry Bergman plays both Mrs. Stout and an angry diner (you can imagine what Charlie does to make a diner angry). In terms of the slapstick, "The Rink" is the most creative of the Mutual two-reelers.

"The Immigrant" (Released June 17, 1917) is the best of Chaplin's shorts as far as I am concerned. Chaplin filmed 24 hours of footage over two months to produce a 21-minute film when most two-reelers were shot in two days. When Chaplin began, filming the restaurant scene (with Campbell as the head waiter), the film was going to be about the bohemian life, but the scene was too short and he decided to make the Tramp and the young girl immigrants, creating the opening sequence on the boat and the happy ending. Starting with the simple gag of the Tramp leaning over the ship's railing turning out to be something other than what we think, "The Immigrant" is classic Chaplin, mixing comedy, romance, and pathos.

"Tillie's Punctured Romance" (Released November 14, 1914) is a notable film not because of the presence of Chaplin, who is essentially out of character playing the heartless sharper instead of the loveable Tramp, but that it was the product of Max Sennet's desire to produce the first feature-length comedy in film history. Sennett had signed the famous stage comedienne Marie Dressler for a film version of her big success, "Tillie's Nightmare." A massive legal entanglement resulted and the film was sold to Arco for $100,000 and released as "Tillie's Punctured Romance" in a whole bunch of different lengths with different soundtracks. Essentially this is a burlesque of a burlesque in which the city slicker (Chaplin) leads the pretty country heiress (Dressler) astray. Sennett throws every trick he knows into directing this 1914 film and anyone familiar with the work of Chaplin or Dressler after this point will be dismayed with their performances here. Chaplin is extremely deadpan and Dressler is overly mannered (with way too much makeup on). Fortunately even his facial hair is different enough for us to convince ourselves this is not the Tramp and therefore not the real Chaplin.

"The Vagabond" (Released July 10, 1916), third two-reeler for Mutual, has Chaplin as a street violinist who starts off passing the hat for some other street musicians but takes the donations and goes to the country. There he rescues a girl (Purviance) who has been kidnapped by a band of gypsies. They meet an artist (Lloyd Bacon) who paints the girl's portrait. The girl falls in love with the artist and his painting is seen by the girl's real mother. Campbell plays the Gypsy chieftain and Leo White is both the Old Jew and a Gypsy Woman. This is an average Chaplin comedy on a slightly lower level than the other two Mutuals included on this DVD.

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FROM A CHAPLIN FAN

The Essential Charlie Chaplin
Starring: Charlie Chaplin
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The Little Tramp: The Charlie Chaplin Collection

ASIN: B0009IW91Q
Release Date: 2005-06-07

Description

DVD 1 Making a Living Kid Auto Races at Venice Mabel's Strange Predicament Between Showers Film Johnny Charlie's Recreation His Favorite Pastime DVD 2 Cruel, Cruel Love The Landlady's Pet Twenty Minutes of Love Caught in a Cabaret A Busy Day The Fatal Mallet The Knockout DVD 3 Mabel's Married Life Laffing Gas Face on the Bathroom Floor Recreation The Masquerader The Good-For-Nothing The Rounders DVD 4 The New Janitor The Rival Mashers Musical Tramp A Fair Exchange His New Job A Night Out The Champion DVD 5 Dough and Dynamite In the Park The Tramp By the Sea DVD 6 Work A Woman The Bank Shanghaied DVD 7 A Night in the Show A Burlesque on Carmen Police The Floorwalker DVD 8 The Fireman The Vagabond One A.M. The Count The Pawnshop

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FROM A CHAPLIN FAN.......2006-06-28

Hi everybody!
I like this dvd in first place because you can find most of the
Keystone stuff wich are hard to find.I know the quality is not good but if you're interested in Chaplin earliest films i doubt
you can find it with a better quality nowadays.I also like this dvd because you can choose if you want to hear the original soundtrack or the sound of the old reelers.The presentation is cool too.Recomended for those who want to find the Chaplin Keystone reels.

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Noooooooo!
The Stirrings of Genius ...
Sometimes it's best just to let the past go...
classic classic charlie chaplin
The ULTIMATE Chaplin Collection!!!!

The Charlie Chaplin Collection
Starring: Essential Charlie Chaplin
Manufacturer: Delta
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Charlie Chaplin Short Comedy Classics - The Complete Restored Essanay & Mutual Collection
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ASIN: B00008OM6Y
Release Date: 2002-04-23

Description

A must-have for any fan or film buff's library. This definitive collection of 12-DVDs contains 57 of Chaplin's legendary early films in chronological order…a true historical legacy of the greatest comedian who ever lived. In addition to these film gems, also included is an exclusive 90 minute documentary on the life and times of this comedic master. COVERS CHAPLIN'S WORK AT KEYSTONE, ESSANAY, MUTUAL AND FIRST NATIONAL FILM COMPANIES.

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Noooooooo!.......2006-08-04

Not another cheapo crummy box set! No No No!!

Okay, so here's what we have -

The Keystone films - Once again, the SAME crummy prints that are used every time. Sadly, only a couple of these are available in any good condition. They are -

TIllie's Punctured Romance and Mabel's Married Life, available on Image's "Tillie's Puctured Romance" dvd. let me put it this way - Tillie on the present set is a 50 minute pile of poorly narrated and terrible condition garbage that is missing a lot of essential scenes. The Image disc has a mostly complete print that is actually quite watchable and - wait for it - actually makes sense! Amazing!

The Knockout and The Rounders - available in the "Forgotten Films of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle" set. These look quite nice here. The Rounders is also available in the Slapstick Encyclopedia set, along with a Chaplin fragment unavailable anywhere else.

Okay, that takes care of the films filmed at Keystone. The fact is, if you want to see most of the Keystone films, you might as well get this set or one even cheaper if possible. But there are MUCH better copies of ALL of these films out there, waiting to be released.

AS far as the rest of the material from the Essanay, Mutual, and First National years, this set is nowhere near as good the the Image and M2K releases, and shouldn't even be considered in those cases. In fact, it still remains to be determined if the use of some of these prints is even legal, since they were clearly duplicated from official releases.

There is also a documentary included. Sadly, it's not really about Chaplin, but is a fascinating documentary about how badly somebody can screw up a life story. The information is often false, misleading, or simply a big fat pack of lies. And it's boring. And poorly made. I'm sure talking this one up, aren't I?

If you want a GREAT documentary, try Unknown Chaplin, which is still a knockout 20-odd years later.

Avoid this title, buy all the Image and M2K releases, and then come back to this only when you really MUST see crummy versions of the Keystones. Hopefully soon, we'll have comething better.

The Stirrings of Genius ..........2005-01-16

I claim no more knowledge of Chaplin movies than the average fan. I gave this collection four stars, and I'll give 4 reasons why.
1. i don't think that, considering the fact many of the shorts are roughly between 80-90 years old, it is too much of a stretch to imagine that the image quality is less than stellar. we in the digital age are lucky to have them at all, given the fact that many early movie pioneers (m.sennett included)considered their finished products disposable, to be used until they couldn't be thread into the projector anymore.

2. it's been said that CC's Keystones are only fit for antiquarians and sentimentalists. i disagree. it's in his keystones, that we can see the stirrings of CC's genius. his lack of over acting (excessive mugging/gestures) immediately sets him apart from his contemporaries. chaplin's economy of movement, his deft manipulation of props, and his ability to convey his attitude to the audience with only quick facial expressions,all begin here in his keystone efforts.

3. not only do we get chaplin in this collection, but we also see other great stars of the silent era. mable normand, chester conklin, ben turpin, mack swain, and of course the incomporable edna purviance are just a few of the luminaries contained in these discs. i think you'd be hard pressed to find this much talent in one set.

4. lastly, i don't think i'm alone when i say that to a great degree i find silent movies in general a refreshing alternative to some of today's movie offerings. i'm constantly amazed at how much silents give to their audience, when you consider how little they had to work with, compared to today. and no one was more of a master of that than Charlie Chaplin - don't pass this opportunity up to get so much, for so small a price !

Sometimes it's best just to let the past go..........2004-09-16

By this point it ought to be blatantly obvious that the recent reviews are for the 8 disc Sams Club edition for under $20. But, just for the record, that's the copy that I'm reviewing as well.

I can understand the reviewers who give this set praises for being the only available DVD releases of the old Keystone shorts. On certain levels it's comforting to know that some of film history's most important shorts can never truly die, thanks to DVD preservation. However, when the quality is this bad, my opinion is that it's not really worth releasing at any price. If the originals have deteriorated to the point where they are this poor in quality, they simply shouldn't be seen by the average viewer. They certainly shouldn't be sold at a grab bag price to try to rope in as many sales as possible. The lower the price, the more newcomers will see Chaplin (or silent short comedy in general) for the first time in a set like this, and I believe that that does a great disservice to the silent film era. I can't help but feel that most people who buy this set are going to come away from it with a serious loathing of silent film short comedy. The quality destroys any enjoyment that undoubtedly at one time would have been had.

For example, on the first disc, which is obviously the one that most people will watch first, only "Kid Auto Races at Venice" is even remotely close to entertaining. It's quality is high enough that it is still relatively pleasant to watch. The other six shorts on the disc are an absolute disaster... Two of which spend a considerable amount of time with the heads cut off of all the actors due to cropping issues.

The prints are bad. Rarity, for me, is not the issue. These prints are beyond watchable quality even if they are the only ones left. This level of deterioration can only be tolerated by the most ardent fan. And I don't say that lightly. I am a film student who has seen more than his fair share of poor quality prints... These, by and large, have been scraped out of the gutter.

In short, if you absolutely must have the Keystone shorts, feel free to buy this set. But do yourself a favor and watch it with very low expectations. It won't live up to much else...

If, on the other hand, you simply want to see some Chaplin, pick up the Chaplin Collection 2-Disc releases or the Restored Mutual and Essanay shorts from Image.

Respect for the classics is as important as preservation. Cheap releases of shoddy prints does little to please anyone...

classic classic charlie chaplin.......2004-07-17

this is the best chaplin ever. Pay no attention to the people that gave bad reviews on this item.Its not bad quality at all,allthoughits very hard to get chaplins keystones in good shape because there so old. the rest is fine.This massive 12 disc box set has over 18 hours of nothing but legend Charlie Chaplin. Its worth the money.

The ULTIMATE Chaplin Collection!!!!.......2004-04-26

First of all,let me just notify you that this review refers to the 8-disc box set that I bought recently at Sam's Club that was produced by Platinum Disc Corporation and not the Delta/Laserlight release of "The Essential Charlie Chaplin" box set!!! Platinum's version of the Chaplin films is perhaps the best collection yet and is definitely well worth the money!! There are 58 short films in this set,two of which are features (THE KID (1921) and TILLIE'S PUNCTURED ROMANCE (1914) which,by the way,is the 50's reissue print marred by a narrator!).Besides those two films,there is also a huge collection of Chaplin's short films made by Keystone,Essanay,and Mutual that includes such classics as his debut film MAKING A LIVING (1914),ONE A.M. (1916),THE IMMIGRANT (1917),THE TRAMP (1915),and many more to name those few!!! All of the films are presented in their entirety and contain appropriately scored music (mostly piano/orchestral combos) and on one of the shorts,Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer" is heard throughout which is pretty cool!!! At the beginning of each DVD,there is a disclaimer saying that they did their absolute best digitally remastering these films from the best availible sources as well!!! I really love this collection of Chaplin's shorts and films and that it's a major improvement from the Madacy 2-disc "Chaplin Collection" set.I would advise you to go to your local Sam's Club store and buy this set and you will not be dissapointed!!! Thank you Platinum for putting together a great set of Chaplin comedies that you won't find anywhere else!! Now there's a company that definitely cares about quality on their customers!!! Also,see my review for Madacy's THE CHAPLIN COLLECTION set.

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