Kennington Bioscope online: 'Chaplin's London in Hollywood' May 20th 2020, 19:30 BST
Posted: Mon May 18, 2020 10:28 am
Hi again,
a new addition coming to the Kennington Bioscope YouTube channel, coming this Wednesday, May 20th 2020 at 19:30 BST (UTC+1), prior to our next live show on the 27th, is this interesting lecture from film historian David Trigg, about the influence of locations from Charlie Chaplin's early life in South London, on the directorial choices he made in his film career.
It'll be on this playlist, where there's currently a preview clip in the form of a deleted scene,
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... YAktmzp-d_ [note the hanging underscore]
or accessible from the Kennington Bioscope channel page:
https://www.youtube.com/kenningtonbioscope
a new addition coming to the Kennington Bioscope YouTube channel, coming this Wednesday, May 20th 2020 at 19:30 BST (UTC+1), prior to our next live show on the 27th, is this interesting lecture from film historian David Trigg, about the influence of locations from Charlie Chaplin's early life in South London, on the directorial choices he made in his film career.
It'll be on this playlist, where there's currently a preview clip in the form of a deleted scene,
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... YAktmzp-d_ [note the hanging underscore]
or accessible from the Kennington Bioscope channel page:
https://www.youtube.com/kenningtonbioscope
Film historian David Trigg provides a pre-recorded talk, illustrating how Charlie Chaplin drew upon his childhood haunts in South London when seeking ideas for locations and building his film sets in Hollywood. Avid Chaplin fans can learn about how the comic legend searched for suitable locations and built sets according to locations remembered from his South London childhood – including one resembling the building which now houses the Cinema Museum, the old Lambeth Workhouse, where Charlie and his family were once forced to reside. With colour slides of existing South London locations, excerpts from Chaplin shorts showing the Hollywood equivalents, and piano accompaniment from Lillian Henley. Chaplin's words read by Martin Humphries of the Cinema Museum. The talk was recorded at the Cinema Museum in 2011, and edited with the PowerPoint presentation visuals and film excerpts by Bob Geoghegan.
The talk will be preceeded by an 'overture' of sorts, in the form of a screening of 'La Suisse merveilleuse', a short stencil-coloured, non-fiction film of a boat journey around Lake Maggiore in Switzerland, 1913. Kindly supplied by the EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, from the Jean Desmet collection, with a new piano score by the Kennington Bioscope's John Sweeney, recorded this week. There's a nice symmetry of Chaplin's final connection with Switzerland, being followed by his origins in London.
The videos will premiere on YouTube on May 20th, 2020, 19:30 BST (UTC+1). Join us on the channel's main page, or the Chaplin's London in Hollywood playlist, where there's a preview clip of the talk in the form of a deleted sequence!
https://www.youtube.com/kenningtonbioscope
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... nYAktmzp-d_ [note the hanging underscore]