A gigantic new work of land art by artist Franck Bonneau (Land’Art & Co) was inaugurated on 11th June 2016 at the Aérodrome de Thise in France. Having been a Chaplin fan since childhood, Bonneau is thrilled to pay homage to Chaplin with this huge portrait, which to our knowledge, at 11330 m² is the biggest portrait of Charlie Chaplin in the world.
Coldplay have licensed from our office the use of Chaplin’s legendary final speech from The Great Dictator to open their current “A Head Full of Dreams Tour”.
Watch the original speech here:
We’ve uploaded a hilarious new video to our Youtube channel, TheChaplinFilms of Charlie Chaplin without makeup boxing lightweight champion, Benny Leonard, at Chaplin’s studio in 1918. Watch the fun archive footage below. And don’t forget to subscribe to our channel to stay updated on new videos!
This year’s Charlie Chaplin Days in Niles, CA are on June 11 & 12. Visitors can enjoy film screenings, a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest and more!
For more information, visit Niles Film Museum’s website.
Last year, we launched the digital distribution of the soundtracks to The Kid, The Gold Rush, The Circus and City Lights. We also released Charlie Chaplin’s legendary final speech from The Great Dictator on digital platforms such as iTunes, Spotify, Deezer, Amazon, etc.
Very soon, we will be releasing excerpts from the original recording of the music to Modern Times, as well. Stay tuned!
Chaplin’s archive does contain the entire, full, orchestrated scores. But Chaplin, as a filmmaker, was making changes all the time, sort of trial and error, and he was that way as a composer as well. He would compose a piece of music, they would make a short score of it and orchestrate it, and he would sit down with the orchestrator and tell him what to do. They’d make a full score, they’d make parts for the forty to sixty musicians, and then they would listen to it, and he’d go, “Hmm, no, I don’t like that, let’s have the oboe do this line instead, on trumpet here . . .” So players were writing stuff down all the time, because he was dictating the changes he was listening to. All of those changes were done on the parts, or on pieces of paper they attached to the parts. I found music for Modern Times on the back of laundry receipts and paper menus and things like that, whatever scraps of paper players could find at the last moment and write down some notes. - Timothy Brock
Read more about the delicate process of restoring Charlie Chaplin’s music in a new interview of Timothy Brock on Criterion’s website.
We’ve uploaded a new video on our Youtube channel, TheChaplinFilms. Watch it below:
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