PS I don't mean to imply this version is not "legit' . Film is PD so it is NOT a bootleg, but it also won't have the Chaplin score because it is not the "Authorized" version. Sorry for any confusion.
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Music Hunter <musichun...@nyc.rr.com>wrote: > Hi Kim, > > One need not purchase this expensive 2 disc set to obtain The Kid. > > Music Hunter has the single disc ( see below ) for $ 12.97. I do not > believe it contains the score though. > > We sent an inquiry to the manufacturer to find out & we will advise as soon > as they respond. > > Sincerely at your service, > > Jay Sonin, General Manager > > The Kid > (Full Frame, Black & White) > > > > > Starring: Charles Chaplin, Jackie Coogan, Edna Purviance, Carl Miller, Tom > Wilson > > Release Date: 4/22/2008 > UPC: 882012000274 > Director: Charles Chaplin > > Genre: Melodrama, Slapstick > Run Time: 67 > Flags: Excellent For Children > Distributor/Studio: A2Zcds Inc 200027 > > Charles Chaplin's first feature-length film pairs his Tramp character with > an orphan boy, forging a life together in a slum reminiscent of Chaplin's > childhood London home. Finding humor in the extreme harshness of the Tramp's > impoverished existence with his plucky adopted foundling, Chaplin turns the > pair's survival into a series of comic set pieces depicting such events as > their scheme to sell windows and their daily breakfast rituals. Coordinated > in their movements and well-matched in their temperaments, the Tramp and the > Kid are the perfect pair, underlining the potential for tragedy when the > child welfare authorities step in. Still, having revealed the Tramp's > paternal devotion in a bravura chase scene and a whimsical dream sequence, > Chaplin reunites the redefined family for a happy ending. Chaplin overcame > First National's resistance to his desire to make a dramatic comedy, and he > wrote, directed, and starred in a major success. Shot over nine months and > accompanied by a score composed by Chaplin himself, The Kid became an > critically hailed international hit, launching Jackie Coogan as a major > child star. With a blend of social realism and finely tuned physical comedy, > Chaplin infuses The Kid with a pathos and sweetness that would later mark > one of his greatest features, City Lights (1931). > > The Kid was Charles Chaplin's first self-produced and directed feature > film; 1914's 6-reel Tillie's Punctured Romance was a Mack Sennett production > in which Chaplin merely co-starred. > > The story "with a smile and perhaps a tear," begins with unwed mother Edna > Purviance leaving the Charity Hospital, babe in arms. Her burden is > illustrated with a title card showing Christ bearing the cross. The father > of the child is a poor artist who cares little for of his former lover, > carelessly knocking her photo into his garret fireplace and cooly returning > it there when he sees it is too badly damaged to keep. The mother > sorrowfully leaves her baby in the back seat of a millionaire's limousine, > with a note imploring whoever finds it to care for and love the child. But > thieves steal the limo, and, upon discovering the baby, ditch the tot in an > alleyway trash can. Enter Chaplin, out for his morning stroll, carefully > selecting a choice cigarette butt from his well used tin. He stumbles upon > the squalling infant and, after trying to palm it off on a lady with another > baby in a carriage, decides to adopt the kid himself. Meanwhile Purviance > has relented, but when she returns to the mansion and is told that the car > has been stolen, she collapses in despair. Chaplin outfits his flat for the > baby as best he can, using an old coffee pot with a nipple on the spout as a > baby bottle and a cane chair with the seat cut out as a potty seat. > Chaplin's attic apartment is a representation of the garret he had shared > with his mother and brother in London, just as the slum neighborhood is a > recreation of the ones he knew as a boy. > > Five years later, Chaplin has become a glazier, while his adopted son (the > remarkable Jackie Coogan) drums up business for his old man by cheerfully > breaking windows in the neighborhood. Purviance meanwhile has become a world > famous opera singer, still haunted by the memory of her child, who does > charity work in the very slums in which he now lives. Ironically, she gives > a toy dog to little Coogan. Chaplin and Coogan's close calls with the law > and fights with street toughs are easily overcome, but when Coogan falls > ill, the attending doctor learns of the illegal adoption and summons the > Orphan Asylum social workers who try to separate Chaplin from his foster > son. In one of the most moving scenes in all of Chaplin's films, Chaplin and > Coogan try to fight the officials, but Chaplin is subdued by the cop they > have summoned. Coogan is roughly thrown into the back of the Asylum van, > pleading to the welfare official and to God not to be separated from his > father. Chaplin, freeing himself from the cop, pursues the orphanage van > over the rooftops and, descending into the back of the truck, dispatches the > official and tearfully reunites with his "son". Returning to check on the > sick boy, Purviance encounters the doctor and is shown the note which she > had attached to her baby five years earlier. Chaplin and Coogan, not daring > to return home, settle in a flophouse for the night. The proprietor sees a > newspaper ad offering a reward for Coogan's return and kidnaps the sleeping > boy. After hunting fruitlessly, a grieving Chaplin falls asleep on his > tenement doorstep and dreams that he has been reunited with the boy in > Heaven (that "flirtatious angel" is Lita Grey, later Chaplin's second wife). > Woken from his dream by the cop, he is taken via limousine to Purviance's > mansion where he is welcomed by Coogan and Purviance, presumably to stay. > > Chaplin had difficulties getting The Kid produced. His inspiration, it is > suggested was the death of his own first son, Norman Spencer Chaplin a few > days after birth in 1919. His determination to make a serio-comic feature > was challenged by First National who preferred two reel films, which were > more quickly produced and released. Chaplin wisely gained his distributors' > approval by inviting them to the studio, where he trotted out the delightful > Coogan to entertain them. Chaplin's divorce case from his first wife Mildred > Harris also played a part; fearing seizure of the negatives Chaplin and crew > escaped to Salt Lake City and later to New York to complete the editing of > the film. Chaplin's excellent and moving score for The Kid was composed in > 1971 for a theatrical re-release, but used themes that Chaplin had composed > in 1921. Chaplin re-edited the film somewhat for the re-release, cutting > scenes that he felt were overly sentimental, such as Purviance's observing > of a May-December wedding and her portrayal as a saint, outlined by a > church's stained glass window. > > Charles Chaplin - The Tramp > Jackie Coogan - The Kid > Edna Purviance - Mother > Carl Miller - Artist > Tom Wilson - Policeman > Albert Austin - Man in Shelter > Henry Berman - Lodging House Proprietor > Raymond Lee - His Kid Brother > Charles "Chuck" Riesner - The Bully > Robert Dunbar - Bridegroom > Jack Coogan, Sr. - Guest > Jack Coogan, Sr. - Pickpocket > Beulah Bains - Bride > John McKinnon - Chief of Police > Edgar Sherrod - Priest > Rupert Franklin - Bride's Father > Lita Grey - Flirting Angel > Jules Hanft - Physician > Walter Lynch - Tough cop > Phyllis Allen - A Woman > Nellie Bly Baker - Slum Nurse > Henry Bergman - Night Shelter Keeper > Kitty Bradbury - Bride's Mother > Frank Campeau - Welfare Officer > Esther Ralston - N/A > > > Directors > Charles Chaplin > > Producers > Charles Chaplin > > Composer > Charles Chaplin > > Screenwriter > Charles Chaplin > > Others > Eric James - Additional Music > Roland H. "Rollie" Totheroh - Cinematographer > Jack Wilson - Cinematographer > Charles Hall - Production Designer > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: Stanton, Kim > To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu > Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 1:06 PM > Subject: [Videolib] Chaplin film with score? > > > > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a DVD copy of The Kid (1921) with the score (1971 reissue > of the film). Can anyone who owns it confirm that Warner's Chaplin > Collection version includes the score? Or is there another source? > > > http://www.amazon.com/Kid-2-Disc-Special/dp/B00017LVNC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1287593101&sr=8-1 > > Thank you! > Kim > > Kim Stanton > Head, Media Library > University of North Texas > kim.stan...@unt.edu > P: (940) 565-4832 > F: (940) 369-7396 > > > > > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues > relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, > preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and > related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective > working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication > between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and > distributors. > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues > relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, > preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and > related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective > working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication > between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and > distributors. > >
VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
