£100,000 for a minute of Charlie Chaplin? That and more will be learned in this series of videos from a recent event last year with some moments with Kevin Brownlow and Patrick Stanbury, from Photoplay.
First one includes some on NAPOLEON and a BUSTER KEATON DVD that a company produced with the wrong master.
Kevin talks about seeing a Mary Pickford film directed by Clarence Brown and how it started his collecting of US silent films.
Kevin talks about discovering a film library collection while on holiday and more...
£100,000 for a minute of Charlie Chaplin? That was the rate being charged by Chaplin's agent for any uses of Chaplin's films. With no budget for such a high amount, how Brownlow and Gill did get some Charlie Chaplin clips for HOLLYWOOD SERIES and continued to create UNKNOWN CHAPLIN SERIES.
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