In 1914, the great Charlie Chaplin signed a one-year contract with the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company for what was then an unprecedented salary. Shooting in its California and Chicago studios, he went on to make 16 films that established him as the world's favourite screen comedian.
Unlike other screen stars...
Eleven films from the definitive icon of silent cinema.
Films:
The Kid
The Circus
The Gold Rush
City Lights
The Great Dictator
Modern Times
Limelight (2 disc set on DVD)
The Chaplin Revue
A King in New York
A Woman of Paris
Monsieur Verdoux.
Charlie Chaplin entered the film industry in 1914 and by 1916 was the highest-paid entertainer in the world after signing a contract with the Mutual Film Corporation for a salary of $670, 000. Mutual built Chaplin his very own studio and allowed him total freedom to make 12 two-reel films...
Written and produced by the awarding-winning factual team Kevin Brownlow and David Gill and narrated by actor James Mason, Unknown Chaplin is every film enthusiast's dream.
For years, film collectors and historians dreamed of stumbling on a cache of unknown Chaplin footage - his rushes, his out-takes, his abandoned films...