June 1st & 2nd, 2013 - Don’t miss the Charlie Chaplin Days at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Fremont, CA!
Enjoy special film screenings, contests and other fun events! For further details, visit the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum website.
If you’d like to spend more time with Charlie Chaplin checkout the blog whose mission is to :
bring something new and interesting to the incredible lore and history of Chaplin - his life, his times, his films. Much of it will be pulled from old magazine and newspaper articles and out-of-print books.
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Charlie Chaplin is a great teaching tool! You can download some educational material by clicking here. The resources in this file are for educational purposes only. They may not be used commercially. Please be creative with them! Kids can use the images of Chaplin to create their own Chaplin movie posters, for example. They can also create their own flip-books using material from the original press book of the 1940 release of The Great Dictator, or make cutout paper dolls from the 1936 Modern Times press book.
If you have any questions or if you’d simply like to share any of your classroom’s Chaplin creations with us, please don’t hesitate to get in touch:
Roy Export SAS
58 rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau
75001 Paris, France
Tel: 33 (1) 40 26 31 23
e-mail: office[AT]charliechaplin[DOT]com
The Chaplin films owned by Roy Export, all those made by Chaplin from 1918 onwards (except A Countess from Hong Kong), may only be accompanied by Chaplin’s full symphonic score, either played live by an orchestra or on the film’s actual soundtrack. For the rights to screen one of these films in your school, please contact:
DIAPAHANA for France.
Léna Force : LenaFORCE[AT]diaphana[DOT]fr
CURZON for the UK.
info[AT]curzon[DOT]com
CRITERION/JANUS FILMS for the USA.
Brian Belovarac - belovarac[AT]janusfilms[DOT]com
Or contact us at office[AT]charliechaplin[DOT]com for your country, if not listed above.
The films made by Chaplin before 1918 for Keystone, Essanay and Mutual are in public domain, so there is no copyright for the films themselves. However, different people or companies may have copyright in and to any image restoration they have carried out on the films, or in and to the music put on a particular video or DVD to accompany the films. Therefore, you cannot just screen from a DVD that you buy in a shop because it may contain such copyright material.
David Shepard, of Film Preservation Associates in California, has the best quality restorations of Chaplin’s 1915 - 1917 films that we know of. His email address is DShepFilm[AT]aol[DOT]com. His associate in Europe, Serge Bromberg of Lobster Films, serge[AT]lobsterfilms[DOT]com would also be able to license the footage to you.
Lobster is also in charge of clips from the Keystone (1914) restoration project by the BFI, Cineteca di Bologna, and Lobster. Chaplin did not compose music for the films he made before 1918. These can be accompanied by piano, organ or any other instruments playing the music of your choice.
Our official website is full of articles, news, book and DVD information.
If you need images from Chaplin films, please visit our image bank.
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You can also check out our Youtube channel for clips from films and other videos.
The Cineteca di Bologna has scanned all the Chaplin archives - documents and photographs from the Chaplin Studios and the films.
You can also read about “Ciné-Pousse” Filmmaking Workshops for Kids, which Roy Export and the Chaplin family are happy to sponsor.
Charlie Chaplin
Written by Kieran, Year 5
St Peter’s C of E primary School
Walworth London
Charlie Chaplin was a star
And also a great director
He always wobbles
And blows bubbles
He was a famous actor
Charlie Chaplin’s best film was “The Kid”
He was a tramp
He was very funny
And got a lot of money
Charlie wore a hat
He had baggy trousers
His moustache looked like a grizzly bear
I am a massive fan
He was always hit with a frying pan
The comedian went on stage at five
He was more than alive
Died with style on a beautiful day
On Christmas Day
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Experience the magic of Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush this month with orchestras performing Chaplin’s own score live!
**Winnipeg, Canada - Saturday, April 20, 2013, 8:00 PM**
The Gold Rush with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra at the Centennial Concert Hall
Tickets available on the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s website.
**Sheffield, England - Sunday, April 28, 2013, 7:30 PM**
The Gold Rush with the Sheffield University Salon Orchestra at Firth Hall
For information and tickets, visit the Sheffield University website.
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If you can’t make it to these screenings, check out our full regularly-updated list of live orchestral screenings of Chaplin films.
i{1663-filename-big} Charles Spencer Chaplin was born in London, England, on April 16th, 1889!
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to perform original songs from the music halls of Victorian London?
The Porter House of Publishing has just released a songbook by Cecilia H. Porter featuring six long lost songs that were originally performed on the Victorian Music Hall stage more than a hundred years ago by Charles Chaplin Senior, father of the famous Little Tramp.
The book comes with a CD so that you can hear the songs, but there’s also an additional sing-along version of each song! For those who like to “tickle the ivories,” sheet music is included, as sold on the original song sheets.
Interested in experiencing those far away days with your family and friends? Visit the Porter House of Publishing website for details.
And see our page on Charles Chaplin Sr. to read more about Charlie Chaplin’s father.