guardian.co.uk - 27 days ago
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• Collector turns detective in search of movie's secret • Lost war propaganda reel could be worth £40,000 Morace Park was footling around on eBay looking for antiques when he stumbled on an item that was listed casually as an "old film" – and even then he was really more interested in the tin ...
cinematical.com - 26 days ago
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cinematical.com —
One day, a man named Morace Park is
surfing around eBay, looking for antiques, when he's intrigued...
by an item listed as an "old film." Housed in a funky antique tin, the man bids and wins it for the super-reasonable price of £3.20. He buys and ...
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Lost Charlie Chaplin Film Pops Up on eBay
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Man Buys Lost Chaplin Film on eBay
Film In Focus —
... On November 06, 2009 From The Guardian comes this amazing story: a man bought a previously unknown Charlie Chaplin film for the princely sum of 3.20 (about $5.30) on online auction site eBay. It's not quite on the scale or enormity of the discovery of a proper print of Fritz Lang's Metropolis (which, incidentally, will be playing for the first time at Berlin next year), but still the emergence of Chaplin's Zepped is a great story. Here's more from Charlotte Higgins' ...
Editor's Blog: Man Buys Lost Chaplin Film on eBay
Film In Focus —
... On November 06, 2009 From The Guardian comes this amazing story: a man bought a previously unknown Charlie Chaplin film for the princely sum of 3.20 (about $5.30) on online auction site eBay. It's not quite on the scale or enormity of the discovery of a proper print of Fritz Lang's Metropolis (which, incidentally, will be playing for the first time at Berlin next year), but still the emergence of Chaplin's Zepped is a great story. Here's more from Charlotte Higgins' ...
Lost Charlie Chaplin Film Pops Up on eBay
Cinematical —
... Yes, folks, as a story in the Guardian attests, this is a forgotten film that there's no record of. Almost seven minutes long, the short "is a mixture of footage of Chaplin and exuberant animation that reminded Park of Monty Python sequences." Park's neighbor John Dyer says: "It starts with live shots of Chaplin. It then turns into a dreamscape. We see a Zeppelin bombing attack. And then we see Chaplin taking the mickey out of the Zeppelin, at the time a powerful instrument of terror." They deduce that the film is a propaganda piece from the first World War. Park and Dyer have ...
Chaplin for £3.20
Ultimate Addict —
... I was reading The Guardian today and spotted this article on a guy who bought a random film reel on ebay for £3.20 which turned out to be an unseen short film by Charlie Chaplin. Surely something to put on the IMDB trivia page, when it eventually gets one. ...
Finding A Lost Chaplin Film
The Moviezzz Blog —
The Guardian has a very interesting story about an antique collector buying an old film can on Ebay, only to find it contains an unknown Charlie Chaplin film. A mixture of Chaplin and animation, no record exists for the film. ...
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