Mr. Duncan....book just came in....incredible...all I can say. The ultimate book on Chaplin...I could get rid of the others. In this day of age of electronics, this volume is an example of the lost art of book making. Oh, and the film strip....who cares! Glad you like it, and thanks for the complim...

elliothearst wrote:http://nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=18319" target="_blank

Thanks for this. Great stuff.
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It may be a good idea to keep an eye on how much Chaplin is in there when purchasing; I once placed an order based on a name to find that it was just mentioned for a few minutes. A bit of a waste of money that was. So don't just buy based on a search engine hit. Thanks for the advice. Some of the h...

Spiny Norman wrote:Try perhaps http://www.atvaudio.com/ata_search.php" target="_blank" target="_blank ?

Fantastic. I've already searched and made an inquiry.
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Hi,

I've been asked to help out with the audio guide for Chaplin's World, currently being prepared for a Spring 2016 opening.

It would be great to include the voices of Chaplin and his collaborators. Has anybody come across audio recordings during their researches?

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The film strips are cut through the entire film, or there's strips with only opening cards, intertitles and fade in/out? Will be a little disappointing get a strip without a scene, haha. I just got a message from the head of production at TASCHEN, who tells me that all the strips have images. best ...

I ordered last week and got a copy number somewhere close to 9,450. So the first 10,000 are almost gone. Thanks for trying to generate some panic buying! In reality, TASCHEN distribute in batches to different countries, with all the numbers mixed up, and then these are further mixed with copies ava...

Are all the current released copies still part of the first 10,000 run? Yes, the first printing is still on sale worldwide, so it shouldn't be a problem getting it now. Normally, TASCHEN books sell better in the weeks before Christmas - for example, the first printing of The James Bond Archives wit...

Just curious about something...the film strip...is it a piece of nitrate? I ordered the book and don't really care about the strip, but I was wondering. Just because it was in his archive doesn't mean it is "original." It could have been cut from a print struck in the 70's or later. Does anyone kno...

Here's the link for the Clyde Bruckman bio: http://thecriticalpress.com/books/the-gag-man/" target="_blank “This is much more than the long overdue discovery of Clyde Bruckman and the origins of film comedy. This is a deep insight into the vortex of laughter and death.” – Werner Herzog “Matthew Dess...

Just spotted this:

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I was disappointed with much of the text, though. Much of it is from the autobiography, of course, but quotes from other people that would have been well-served by giving a date and source just appeared with no explanation. And sorry, but I dont think it was necessary to put the name of the editor ...

Just got a nice review in The New Yorker by Richard Brody: "The most un-put-downable movie book of the season is also the most un-pick-uppable one: “The Charlie Chaplin Archives” (Taschen)" http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/charlie-chaplins-scandalous-life-and-boundless-artistry?intcid=...

Unfortunately, the weight of it took a toll on my shoulder, so I won't be able to get around to seriously going through it until the numbness in my arm subsides (that's my second movie related injury this month). I see a trend here: huge book dragged through rain, bodily injuries, small animals bei...

An odd question, perhaps, but does the book include information about production records/call sheets detailing full cast and crew members involved in the making of the films? These are materials from the Chaplin archives that I've always been interested in seeing. The book contains reproductions of...

bigshot wrote:The endpapers of the book are call sheets!

Actually, they are the crossplot for Monsieur Verdoux - then called A Comedy of Murders - that shows which actors are required on which day, and which scene is to be shot each day.
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R Michael Pyle wrote:According to Amazon, the book weighs 14.4 lbs. Is this correct????!!!!

I think it's more like 14lbs. The book comes in its own box, and there will be packaging around that, so maybe that accounts for the extra .4. It's impressively bound, I'm told.
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So many pictures I've never seen before; among them an early shot of Chaplin's mother Hannah Yes, there are a lot of pix I have never seen in print before, including some from Keystone. Also, just before we went to print the Manoir in Vevey was being cleared out in preparation for conversion for Ch...

Just bought it. It probably means I'll have to live exclusively on oatmeal for the next month, but I felt just confident enough I won't regret it. Or you could live on buckwheat pancakes a la Chaplin... I'll be excited to hear what you think of the book when you have had time to digest it. (Not tha...

Some months ago, you all helped me plug some info gaps for The Charlie Chaplin Archives , so I thought it would appropriate for me to return the plug. And here it is: The Charlie Chaplin Archives , published by TASCHEN is out now in the UK and Europe, and is due in the US within the next couple of w...

As a voice in the wilderness who has raised this point in the past, the term "intertitle" is an a academic concoction of recent vintage. In the silent era they were called subtitles or simply titles. If one is actually concerned with practices of the film culture of the time, then one should use th...

Hi Steve, A fantastic piece of detective work there - but you need to ease up - I see on your avatar it's turned you cross-eyed. So far, I've found nothing on Peggy Paige in the Chaplin archives, although to be fair there is almost nothing from the Keystone period to look through except some clippin...

Fantastic! I'm convinced.
Many thanks Ian.
I knew I could count on Nitrateville!
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Researching documentation on THE KID, I note that a young Esther Ralston played the vamp in the heaven sequence for about two weeks of filming before she was replaced by the younger Lolita McMurray - later Lita Grey Chaplin, of course. Did Ralston ever talk about this in any sort of detail? I've see...

I'm still writing/researching The Charlie Chaplin Archives, which will be published by TASCHEN next year. And I still have questions. In The Idle Class there is a scene where the Tramp is reading a paper on the bench - a pickpocket tries to steal from the gentleman sitting beside the Tramp, but the ...

BTW, besides the drunk in the street James Kelly plays another role in the film. In drag he's the old lady that brings the goldfish in to pawn. He often played old Irish ladies in his days on the stage, and starred in the comedy WIDOW O'BRIEN in the late 1800s. Many thanks for this. Great info. I'v...

I've got all the Mutuals here and I can see that the drunk in the street of The Pawnshop is Kelley, and he looks like the Butler in The Count, and the cameraman in Behind the Screen.

So the old actor is another actor.

If I knew how to embed images, I'd send frame grabs.

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Thanks, but James T. Kelley plays the drunk outside the pawnshop, who asks Albert Austin the time - he doesn't play the old actor.
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I'm researching a book on Chaplin and notice that in "The Pawnshop" the old actor declaiming a sob story about the ring he wants to pawn is often credited as Wesley Ruggles, but it isn't. Does anybody know who it is?

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