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Unknown Chaplin
(1983)

2005 A&E Home Video edition

Unknown Chaplin (1983), black & white and color, 163 minutes, not rated.

A&E Home Video, unknown catalog number, unknown UPC number.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, two? single-sided?, dual-layered? DVD discs, Region 1, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, cardboard wrap case with plastic tray in cardboard slipcase?, $24.95.
DVD release date: 29 November 2005.
Country of origin: USA

This long-awaited edition of one of the best documentaries on Charles Chaplin focuses on the working methods of the moody genius, illustrated with outtake footage from the Estate of Charles Chaplin. The three parts are accompanied by wonderful music by Carl Davis.

USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.

Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.

Other silent era CHARLES CHAPLIN films available on home video.

Other Photoplay Productions documentaries available on home video:
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995)
D.W. Griffith: Father of Film (1993)
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (2000)
So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton at MGM (2004)

Other silent era-related DOCUMENTARIES available on home video.

Charles Chaplin filmography in The Progressive Silent Film List

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