c British Film Institute
Ein langjähriges Restaurierungsunternehmen ist an sein Ende gekommen. Die Keystone-Filme aus der Frühzeit von Chaplin erscheinen demnächst auf DVD. Damit wird endlich die Lücke geschlossen, die den Beginn seiner Karriere markiert.
Das British Film Institute informiert auf einer Website über dieses internationale Unternehmen, das sich über mehrere Jahre hingezogen hat. Die einzelnen Titel werden dort detailliert vorgestellt:
Restored by the bfi National Archive
- Kid Auto Races [2]
- Mabel at the Wheel [10]
- A Film Johnnie [5]
- The Property Man [21]
- His Prehistoric Past [35]
- Between Showers [4]
Restored by L’Immagine Ritrovata, Cineteca di Bologna
- Mabel’s Married Life [19]
- The Masquerader [24]
- Laughing Gas [20]
- Twenty Minutes of Love [11]
- Tango Tangles [6]
- Getting Acquainted [34]
- Mabel’s Busy Day [18]
- His Musical Career [31]
- The New Janitor [27]
- Making a Living [1]
- The Rounders [26]
- Caught in the Rain [13]
Restored by UCLA /bfi National Archive
Restored by Library of Congress
- Gentlemen of nerve [30] paper print
Being restored in 2006
Restored by the bfi National Archive
- The Star Boarder [9]
- The Knockout [17]
- His Trysting Place [32]
- Mabel’s Strange Predicament [3]
Restored by L’Immagine Ritrovata, Cineteca di Bologna
- The Face on the Bar-Room Floor [22]
- A Busy Day [14]
- The Fatal Mallet [15]
- Caught in a Cabaret [12]
To be restored 2007/2008
- His Favorite Pastime [7]
- Cruel, Cruel Love [8]
- Her Friend the Bandit [16] not extant
- Recreation [23]
- His New Profession [25]
- Those Love Pangs [28]
- Dough and Dynamite [29] paper print Library of Congress
c Flicker Alley
Die Edition mit 4 DVDs erscheint bei Flicker Alley in den USA:
„With the support of Association Chaplin (France), 35mm full aperture, early-generation materials (with only a few exceptions) were gathered on almost all the films in this international collaboration and were painstakingly pieced together by the National Film and Television Archive of the British Film Institute, L’Immagine Ritrovata in Bologna, Italy, and the UCLA Film and Television Archive; then digitally refurbished by Lobster Films in Paris.
Flicker Alley is proud to present Chaplin At Keystone. These films feature all-new musical settings by Eric Beheim, Neil Brand, Antonio Coppola, Frederick Hodges, Stephen Horne, Robert Israel, Rodney Sauer, The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, Ethan Uslan, and Ken Winokur with Tillie’s Nightmare, all outstanding practitioners of silent film accompaniment.“ (Flicker Alley)
Nachtrag vom 20.7.2010: 35 Filme werden enthalten sein, darunter auch „Her Friend The Bandit“, nicht jedoch der jüngst aufgefundene „A Thief Catcher“. Die Box erscheint am 26.10.2010. (Quelle: Nitratville)
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