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MichaelB wrote:Nine, actually. Ten if a copy of The Mountain Eagle comes to light, Metropolis-style.

Apologies, slip of the tongue. I think they've only green-lit the work on the first 6 so far, but yes will be 9 in total.

Philip French in The Observer: "important, instructive, hugely enjoyable".

Jonathan S wrote:It looks like there's some sort of authoring flaw on the BFI edition of this set. On disc one Twenty Minutes of Love ends abruptly after 5m 21s. I was alerted to this by a post on Nitrateville and my copy is the same.

MichaelB wrote:BFI DVD Publishing is aware of this issue and is investigating.

In the meantime, you should be able to watch the whole film via the 'Play All' option.

Same problem with my copy. Obviously this is a fault which only occurs on the BFI edition. Watching the film via the "play all" option doesn't help. I find this very annoying and would like to know if any other member had the same experience.

It skips on mine too, unless I got via Play All and laboriously flick through all that comes before it.

Replacement discs have just arrived - anyone affected should get in touch with Ben Stoddart ([email protected]) for further details.

^^^ I did so over a week ago but no reply yet. Anyone else heard anything?

EDIT: It seems they've now taken care of me. Praise and gratitude to the BFI

I received the replacement in a timely fashion, it all took some three days or so. And mind you, I live in Scandinavia.

The Chaplin Keystone Project won Best Archive Restoration Project at last night's Focal International Awards, an honour shared by Lobster Films, the Cineteca di Bologna, the BFI, the Library of Congress and UCLA.

How many films did Chaplin actually make for Keystone?

36 in total, of which 34 are on the DVD. Fragments of A Thief Catcher are included as extras, and Her Friend The Bandit is believed lost.

February 2, 1914 - Making a Living
February 7, 1914 - Kid Auto Races at Venice
February 9, 1914 - Mabel's Strange Predicament
February 19, 1914 - A Thief Catcher
February 28, 1914 - Between Showers
March 2, 1914 - A Film Johnnie
March 9, 1914 - Tango Tangles
March 16, 1914 - His Favorite Pastime
March 26, 1914 - Cruel, Cruel Love
April 4, 1914 - The Star Boarder
April 18, 1914 - Mabel at the Wheel
April 20, 1914 - Twenty Minutes of Love
April 27, 1914 - Caught in a Cabaret
May 4, 1914 - Caught in the Rain
May 7, 1914 - A Busy Day
June 1, 1914 - The Fatal Mallet
June 4, 1914 - Her Friend the Bandit (believed lost)
June 11, 1914 - The Knockout
June 13, 1914 - Mabel's Busy Day
June 20, 1914 - Mabel's Married Life
July 9, 1914 - Laughing Gas
August 1, 1914 - The Property Man
August 10, 1914 - The Face on the Bar Room Floor
August 13, 1914 - Recreation
August 27, 1914 - The Masquerader
August 31, 1914 - His New Profession (The-Good-For-Nothing)
September 7, 1914 - The Rounders
September 14, 1914 - The New Janitor
October 10, 1914 - Those Love Pangs
October 26, 1914 - Dough and Dynamite
October 29, 1914 - Gentlemen of Nerve
November 7, 1914 - His Musical Career
November 9, 1914 - His Trysting Place
November 14, 1914 - Tillie's Punctured Romance
December 5, 1914 - Getting Acquainted
December 7, 1914 - His Prehistoric Past

Anyone else get a faulty disk 4? Mine won't play no matter what I do. AnyDVD just get can't read it, VLC just streams out error messages too and PowerDVD doesn't even detect it in the drive.

Edit: Make that faulty disks 2, 3 and 4. Strange.

Any prospect of this coming out on Blu-ray in the near future?

I can't speak to a blu release of these films, but all 4 of my discs worked fine when tested this morning. It's probably your player?

Hah, that post was in 2012 and I have no memory of it. Judging by e-mails though, it looks as if I returned and replaced the set.

So I’m working at finding original Norwegian cinema titles for some Chaplin shorts.

The original Norwegian censor card (translated by me) gives the following info:

TITLE:
Chaplin the dance champion/Chaplin as master dancer
DATE OF SUBMISSION:
4th of October 1916
LENGTH:
10 minutes
STORY:
Chaplin dances with a big, fat farm girl that is thrown into the sea and then pulled up from the water.

My reasoning is that if the stated length is correctly recorded, I’m assuming that it is most likely a Keystone short. Does anyone recognize this plot? If so please reply with what title you think this can be. Thanks