HISTORIC FEATURE FILMS
The following vintage motion picture film classics have been meticulously and pain-snakingly restored to their original pristine condition from surviving 35mm materials.
The Charlie Chaplin Festival 1941
Producer/Script/Director: Charlie Chaplin Cinematography: Robert Rotheroh CAST: Charlie Chaplin, Albert Austin, Lloyd Bacon, Henry Bergman Production: Lone Star Corp. 97 min. B/W silent w/music score English Inter-titles.
American silent compilation film production produced, written, directed and starring comic genius Charlie Chaplin with co-players Albert Austin, Lloyd Bacon, Henry Bergman, etc,
"The Charlie Chaplin Festival" features four Chaplin comedy short films from 1917, including "The Adventurer," "The Cure," "Easy Street" and "The Immigrant," presented with sound effects and a new music score.
Early Film Treasures 1888-1896
Producers/Filmmakers: Thomas Edison, William KL Dickson, George Melies, The Lumiere Brothers, Alice Guy Blache, Louis Le Prince, etc.
silent/music score English Inter-titles 90 min. B/W This rare vintage archival film collection contains the uncut versions of the first embryonic visual imagery of the motion picture form from Louis Le Price in 1888 to Thomas Edison in 1896.
Charlie Chaplin Lost Film - "My Happiest Years" 1916
Producer/Script/Director: Charlie Chaplin Cinematography: Robert Rotheroh CAST: Charlie Chaplin, Lloyd Bacon, Albert Austin. Production: Mutual Film Corp.. 60 min. B/W silent w/music score Englush Inter-titles.
Rare, vintage lost Charlie Chaplin film written, produced and directed as well as in starring with co-players Lloyd Bacon ad Albert Austin in 1916.
Considered a "lost" Chaplin film classic.
So Long Letty 1929
Producer/Director: Lloyd Bacon Script: De Leon Anthony, Arthur Caesar, Elmer Harris, Robert Lord, Oliver Morosco Cinematography: James Van Trees CAST: Charlotte Greenwood, Claude Gillingwater, Grant Withers, Patsy Ruth Miller Music: louis Silvers Production: Warner Bros. 64 min. Color sound Engish version.
American early "talkie" Pre-Code musical comedy film was produced and directed by Lloyd Bacon starring Charlotte Greenwood, Claude Gillingwater, Grant Withers, Patsy Ruth Miller, etc.
"So Long Letty" had been previously produced on Broadway and then filmed as a silent short film under the same title in 1920.
The story concerns Uncle Claude, who comes to stay at the Ardmore Beach Hotel in order to see Tommy and his wife. Meanwhile, at the hotel with his two granddaughters Sally and Ruth. Uncle Claude meets a wise-talking employee named Letty, who causes him to leave the hotel. When he discovers Tommy, he somehow mistakes Grace for his own wife and likes her and the way she manages to keep a clean home. In order to get a big cash payoff from Uncle Charlie and to discover how life actually is with the other, the two spouses switch partners for exactly one week.
"So Long Letty" premiered on October 16, 1929. Film historian Scott Eyman, in his book "The Speed of Sound" wrote: "The film was one of a eave of more than seventy musicals inundating American movie theaters in 1930."