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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

Three men are largely responsible for the early transformations in Charlie Chaplin’s political philosophies and understanding: Upton Sinclair, Max Eastman and writer/publisher Rob Wagner.

Friends, artists, intellectuals
Date published
2nd March 2020

Many snakes were hired during the making of The Circus ...

Revealing objects
Date published
10th January 2020

From Chaplin's cheques we can discover that ...

Revealing objects
Date published
12th March 2019

Sydney Chaplin, Charlie’s brother, carefully preserved some letters from Hannah to her sons.

Letters
Date published
12th March 2019

Jean Cocteau and Chaplin were on the same boat in 1936, travelling back from Japan. Chaplin described it in his autobiography.

Friends, artists, intellectuals
Date published
2nd October 2018

Actors who worked with Chaplin often described how he would play out each part himself to show them how he wanted it done.

Craft secrets
Date published
27th September 2018