The Chaplin Collection vol. 2 - 3/2/04 (1 Viewer)

[Brian PB]

I think I'll pass on the Chaplin Revue 2-disc set. Call me a purist, but I don't want The Pilgrim (the single funniest short I've ever seen) coupled with A Dog's Life and Shoulder Arms, and "strung together to form a single feature length film. Chaplin also provides new music, narration and a small amount of connecting material to the film."

I'll content myself with the two OOP Image releases containing all seven of the First National shorts (Charles Chaplin: A First National Release and The Kid/A Dog's Life) presented as they were originally intended.

 

[Brandon Conway]

 

[Mark Zimmer]

There is presently no good presentation of the Keystone Chaplins (one of them is lost). The remaining are in the works of restoration in a joint product of Bologna, Lobster Films, David Shepard and I think the BFI, but it will be some time yet before that's available for home viewing--with so many films in shabby condition there's a good deal of work to be done on these pictures.

 

[Bradley-E]

Question; I have a 16x9 television and a Sony Blu Ray player. I've had them both for about 2 years and I set them up so that anything and everything that is 4x3 automatically formats to that setting. Last night I tried to watch City Lights. It automatically formats 16x9. I tried re setting my BD player and Television to try to get it to 4x3 and was unsucessful. The Chaplin titles are the only titles I have had this issue with. What can I do? Has anyone else encountered this?

thanks