Grand Rapids Ballet Company to do a Chaplin inspired ballet, the revival of Gordon Peirce Schmidt’s “Flickers,” a one-act ballet the GRBC artistic director created in 2003 for the company’s Dancers’ Theatre Series.
When: 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and Feb. 5-6, 2 p.m. Sunday and Feb. 7
Where: GRBC’s Wege Theatre, 341 Ellsworth St. SW
Tickets: $30 adults, $25 seniors, $20 children 12 and younger at Ticketmaster outlets, (800) 982-2787, “Tickets here”:http://www.ticketmaster.com
More info: 454-4771, or on the “Grand Rapids Ballet website”:http://www.grballet.com and on “MLive”:http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/01/grand_rapids_ballet_companys_n_1.html
“Through these humble relics of popular culture we can track the growth of Chaplin’s phenomenal popularity, which is intertwined with the rapid growth of the film industry itself.”
Dan Kamin, author of The Comedy of Charlie Chaplin has written an interesting article about “Chaplin appearing on magazine’s covers.”:http://magazinehistory.blogspot.com/2009/12/charlie-chaplin-in-magazines.html
Nice good looking vintage magazines to have a peek at as well.
CHARLIE IN THE HEARTLAND
INTERNATIONAL “CHARLIE CHAPLIN CONFERENCE”:http://www.zanesville.ohiou.edu/chaplin/
October 28, 29, and 30, 2010
Ohio University Zanesville, Zanesville, OH USA
h4. Keynote Speaker and Honoree
Charles J. Maland, author of Chaplin and American Culture: The Evolution of a Star Image, celebrating its 20th anniversary. (Professor and Head of the University of Tennessee English Department )
h4. Other Confirmed Featured Speakers
David Robinson, Film Critic, Historian and author of Chaplin: His Life and Art
Kate Guyonvarch, Director of Roy Export S.A.S. and the Association Chaplin office, Paris
Cecilia Cenciarelli, Archivist and Head of Progetto Chaplin, Cineteca di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Frank Scheide, Co-Editor of The Chaplin Review, Professor of Communications at the University of Arkansas
In keeping with the theme of the conference, “Charlie in the Heartland,” which was chosen to commemorate Chaplin’s first trip to the United States with Fred Karno’s Comedians in October, 1910, we are seeking papers in a wide range of areas, all to do with Chaplin, his relationship with, influence on, or evocation of America, either during or after his long residence here. The following topics are meant to generate ideas for presentations, not limit creativity or exclude participation:
Maland’s Chaplin and American Culture 20 Years Later
Reconsidering “Chaplinitis”
From Karno to Keystone: Eliding the Music Hall Stage and the Silent Screen
American Vaudeville Audiences of the 1910s – A Herald of Silent Film Popularity?
Chaplin’s Company: Who were Charlie’s Character
Actors and What Were Their Influences?
Vulgar Film Comedy as High Art.
Chaplin and Public Appearance: A Reconsideration of the Liberty Bond Tour
The Chaplin Imitator Phenomenon
Film Audience Reception in the Heartland
The Heartland Rebels: Chaplin and the American Legion
Brother Sydney Chaplin : What Was the Magnitude of His Impact?
The Representation of America or Americans in the
Films of Charlie Chaplin
Chaplin’s Little Tramp and the Beat Generation in America
Individual papers or full panels are welcome to submit proposals.
Please send a 500-word abstract, a short bio and your contact information to Lisa Stein, Assistant Professor of English, OU-Zanesville, 1425 Newark Road, Zanesville, OH 43701 or via email by February 1, 2010. Graduate and undergraduate students are welcome and encouraged to submit.
N. B. We have tried to make this an accessible conference for young scholars by offering several low-cost housing options, as well as a reduced registration rate. We will also have a student travel grant available for applicants. Check back in early 2010.
The Zanesville Art Museum will host a six-week-long exhibit on Chaplin entitled “Charlie Chaplin and America,” to begin October 1, 2010.
Check the “website”:http://www.zanesville.ohiou.edu/chaplin/ for updates on this event.
Katie Melua has a lovely song about “Mary Pickford”:http://www.amazon.com/Pictures-Katie-Melua/dp/B0020H46KQ%3FSubscriptionId%3D1GGP2X6SNBRNARDHET82%26tag%3Dcharliechap0e-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB0020H46KQ eating roses, Douglas Fairbanks wearing a mustache “and musta had much cash” and Charlie Chaplin being invited,
“when these artists became united”.
The clip has touching footages of D. Fairbanks M. Pickford and Charlie Chaplin playing around when they created United Artists. Those were the days…
Beware before listening, you might find yourself whistling the tune all day…
The complete retrospective featuring _ALL_ the Chaplin film !
At the “Austrian Film Museum”:http://www.filmmuseum.at/jart/prj3/filmmuseum/main.jart?rel=en&content-id=1251646240124&reserve-mode=active
Vienna From December 2nd to January 7th 2010
Also, December 8th 2009
THE CIRCUS projection at The Munich Filmmuseum, Germany
December 20th 2009
MODERN TIMES projection at “Lugano Cinéma 93”:http://www.luganocinema93.ch/, Switzerland
Reissue box set of The Unknown Chaplin DVD and book, edited by “La Cineteca di Bologna”:http://www.cinetecadibologna.it/comprare/categorie/obj_ricerca_charlie_chaplin
Unknown Chaplin is Kevin Brownlow and David Gill 1983 fanstastic documentary insight into Chaplin’s work. Featuring out-takes from Chaplin’s films, and other rare footage, “Unknown Chaplin”:http://www.amazon.com/Chaplin-Master-at-Work/dp/B000BB14ZS%3FSubscriptionId%3D1GGP2X6SNBRNARDHET82%26tag%3Dcharliechap0e-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB000BB14ZS gives a valuable insight into the creation of Chaplin’s films.
Also included are interviews with people who knew and worked with Chaplin. The documentary is in three parts: My Happiest Years, Hidden Treasures and “The Great Director”.
Our licencee Parol Accessoires have launched a new Chaplin quotation scarf:
“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up but a comedy in long-shot”
Please see “their website”:http://www.parol-accessoires.de/shop/product_info.php/info/p140_Scarf–Charlie-Chaplin-chestnut-.html/XTCsid/11105357e6750b0d033bf2bbce7c09b5 for more details.
