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Still photographs to Chaplin, and his crew, were publicity vehicles only...

Film
Date published
7th September 2021

Newly found photographs taken by Dan James, Assistant Director on the film, recently acquired by the Chaplin office, reveal that other scenes we thought had only remained on paper, were actually shot...

Film
Date published
3rd September 2021

Long-time Chaplin collaborator, Roland 'Rollie' Totheroh recalls, years later, the daring process of editing The Kid...

Film
Date published
14th January 2021

Affectionately known as Dickie, Lord Mountbatten is probably best known for two things...

Friends, artists, intellectuals
Date published
13th June 2020

Chaplin shot two endings for Modern Times. After the success of City Lights he first envisaged an epilogue similarly rich in pathos...

Film
Date published
29th April 2020

On September 26th, 1925 at 7:30 pm, BBC radio transmitted to every station throughout the British Isles a ten-minute excerpt from the screening of a silent film.

Friends, artists, intellectuals
Date published
31st March 2020