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Posted by Chad Shumaker (Member # 2384) on November 30, 2013, 08:31 PM:
 
Hello again.

I've been keeping my eyes open for The Gold Rush, Modern Times, and City Lights but I never see them come up. Did the Blackhawk digests of these come under other names? I know that happened with the old Marx Brothers pics (like This Is War is Duck Soup and so on)...
 
Posted by Paul Mason (Member # 4015) on December 02, 2013, 03:38 AM:
 
Chad, The Gold Rush went out of copyright in its original form when Chaplin brought out a re-edited sound version in 1942 and forgot to renew the copyright on the 1925 version. Collectors Club brought out a Super 8 full length version of the 1925 edition in the UK in the mid 70s. Sadly I misguidedly sold my copy 20 years ago but I remember the print was quite good although obviously copied from a 16mm print. The other features were tightly controlled by the Chaplin Estate and only "leased" in Super 8 ie were ultimately intended to be returned. How many customers took this up I don't know but they must be very rare.
 
Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on December 02, 2013, 04:40 AM:
 
There is a 200 feet digest (or extract, I don't remember) of Modern Times.
 
Posted by Paul Mason (Member # 4015) on December 02, 2013, 04:49 AM:
 
I remember now that I once had an anonymous 400ft extract of the first 2 reels from Modern Times, Charlie going berserk on the production line. The quality was poor and it was almost certainly a bootleg copy from a 16mm print.
 
Posted by Bruce Wright (Member # 2793) on December 02, 2013, 07:36 PM:
 
Hi Chad: I have The Gold Rush. Its on four reels, regular 8mm.
that I might let go. It would be a week to ten days before I can screen due to three days of chemo treatment starting
tomorrow. Or you could take it without screening. If you
dont like it, send it back. What's the going price anyway.
I haven't been keeping up on price.
 
Posted by Oemer Yalinkilic (Member # 86) on December 03, 2013, 09:37 AM:
 
http://www.super-8-hobby.de/k-pf79d.htm

scroll down and you see at the end (page 42), the german company Piccolo Film released in 1979 modern times, gold rush, the great dictator and city lights as full length features.
 
Posted by Paul Mason (Member # 4015) on December 04, 2013, 09:56 AM:
 
quote:
The other features were tightly controlled by the Chaplin Estate and only "leased" in Super 8
I guess this was only true while Chaplin was alive and before 1979. Great link.
 


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