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Bet there’s lots of seller’s remorse!
That is pretty cool. I thought they were going to say it was stock footage or something. wow.
That must have been the last one.
Wow, I would have loved to be the one to find that. I have a fairly extensive collection of Chaplain films. My ultimate goal is to have a copy of every film he made. Guess I’ll have to add one to the list.
Boy, did I miss out on that one. A fan of classic Hollywood films I often bid on old Hollywood memorabilia, to use to decorate our theater room. Even the odd and unusual. I once bid up to $1500 on a small chunk of the airplane that Carole Lombard was in when she died. The winning bid was twice that, and good thing. My wife would of killed me, and sold my ashes on Ebay.
This is a huge find. It may be only seven minutes, but Chaplin was a perfectionist. That seven minutes could of taken weeks for him to call it good. He was famous for retake after retake, after retake, spending all day a few seconds of film.
Are you kidding me? An unknown Chaplin film? This guy could hold out for millions.
Considering the fragility of the film-stock and lack of professional conservation, it’s remarkable that anything not already in hand still survives from that era. Sometimes you get lucky. About two years ago they tracked down a complete version of Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” in a private South American collection. I posted the item but the mods seem not to have been fans of German impressionistic cinema.
A well known boxer, Dick Burge, became Sgt. Richard Burge and was a recruiter, before compulsory service enacted in 1916. Bombardier Wells (A white hope) also served. He did not go to the trenches. I would love to see that film, especially if it captured the dreaded Zepplins over London. It is part of history of that terrible war, that destroyed part of English life for ever.
So fierce was patriotism that the crowd ran rampant on any "dodgers" even harassing them in the street. Ted "Kid" Lewis of London(World welterweight boxing champion) had to stay Stateside for a while, he managed to escape that, until the anger subsided. My dad was a school kid in the East-End of London, when 105 kids were killed by a bomb. It may have been by a Gotha, a long airplane, they threw the bombs out by hand.
I do feel bad for the original seller. I often wonder if I myself, picked up a trophy for peanuts, would I try to remit to the seller a sort of compensatory reward?
Perhaps a hundred years from now someone will purchase a 50-cent tin at a neighborhood garage sale and find Obama's real birth certificate inside.
Strange things happen all the time, right?
Leni
I had read of the school being hit, it was by a Zepplin. The Family History Magazine article may have put too many deaths- or maybe my memory. It was 18 poor kids that died. You Tube had a survivors account.
Such was the Kaiser's war against civilians, people who had to struggle to survive regardless.