BennyHollywood (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
Morace Park, who lives in Essex, England, bought the battered olive green film canister listed as "an old film" for £3.20, and found the title Charlie Chaplin in Zepped inside.
Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday
LONDON: A never-seen-before Charlie Chaplin film was found in an antique tin by a man who bought it on eBay for a meagre £3.20. Morace Park was looking for antiques on eBay when he stumbled on an item that was listed casually as an ...
The Moviezzz Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The Guardian has a very interesting story about an antique collector buying an old film can on Ebay, only to find it contains an unknown Charlie Chaplin film. A mixture of Chaplin and animation, no record exists for the film. A documentary is being made about the find. It appears to be taken from rough cut footage of Chaplin after he left Essanay studios. Story via Cinematical
Old Hollywood Glamour (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
photo credit Everett Collection/Rex features From the Daily Mail UK £3.20 battered tin bought on eBay reveals lost Charlie Chaplin movie worth £40,000 By Wil Longbottom 06 th November 2009 A chance purchase of a film tin for £3.20 on eBay has unearthed a previously unseen Charlie Chaplin movie which could be worth up to £40,000. Collector Morace Park decided to buy the battered...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
One day, a man named Morace Park is surfing around eBay, looking for antiques, when he's intrigued by an item listed as an "old film." Housed in a funky antique tin, the man bids and wins it for the super-reasonable price of £3.20. He buys and sells antiques, so when the package arrives, it sits around for a bit. When he finally gets around to opening it, he unfurls some of the film...
The Empire Chronicles (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A lost Charlie Chaplin film has been discovered in a can of nitrate film bought on eBay for £3.20, the Daily Telegraph reports. Morale Park from Henham, Essex, purchased the tin simply because he liked the look of it. He was amazed to discover its fragile contents: a previously unknown seven-minute film Chaplin film called Zepped. His interest was piqued, he said, when he could not find any mention...
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A previously unknown Charlie Chaplin film has been discovered when an eBay shopper bought a can of nitrate film for $5.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Sid Caesar once said, "One man's tragedy is another man's comedy," and this French-Belgian farce, with less than five minutes of onscreen dialogue, illustrates that truth. In a nod to pantomime masters Jacques Tati, Charlie Chaplin and...
PurpleSlinky (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Film News: Six-minute film 'Zepped' recovered in auction -- Morace Park thought he was bidding for a vintage film can when he placed an order on eBay a few months ago.
Stars Are Blind (Free subscription) | yesterday
With the Volume 1 sales out of this world, Glee has announced plans for Volume 2 of their amazing covers! With some classics like Lean on Me and Imagine to current smash hits like My Life Would Suck Without You, this track I’m sure will be as great as the first. This new [...] Related posts: Cast of ‘Glee’ on Alexa Chung ‘Glee’ Preview from the new ‘Wheels’...
Don't Stop Living (Free subscription) | yesterday
It had to be done. It was so obvious. There we were in Singapore, Asia and staying in a hostel just 25 minutes walk from the world famous Raffles Hotel. The Raffles Hotel is possibly the most famous hotel in Asia. It began life in 1887 and was founded by the Armenian Sarkies brothers. Monarchs and celebrities have stayed there over the years, including Charlie Chaplin and John Lennon. It was hardly...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The dead don't just get up and walk off. No. They need felonious help for that. Mental_floss has a fun piece on five great grave robberies (some more successful than others)--with guest corpses ranging from Charlie Chaplin to Abe Lincoln....
Indian Express (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A never-seen-before Charlie Chaplin film was found in a antique tin by a man who bought it on eBay for a meagre £3.20.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Weekly: 35mm images of Charlie Chaplin subject of new doc -- Morace Park, a British businessman and antiques dealer, thought he was bidding for a vintage film can when he placed an order for a collection of odds and ends on eBay a few months ago.
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