Music Hunter carries every CD/DVD title in print.
We also offer special sales of out of print CD/DVD titles on Excel files to
interested libraries quarterly ( seperate files for CDs & DVDs ).
Jay
----- Original Message -----
From: Jessica Rosner
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Videolib] Chaplin film with score?
However there is a difference between the $5-$15 copies of classic but PD
silent films and the more expensive but better versions. I hope you carry both.
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Music Hunter <musichun...@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
Quite correct, however they all cost less when they're ordered from Music
Hunter as compared to other vendors.
Music Hunter is very proud of our budget stretching prices.
Jay
----- Original Message -----
From: Jessica Rosner
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Videolib] Chaplin film with score?
I know. I didn't say otherwise but since it was implied when I said
"legit" version I corrected it. However keep in mind with silent films that
while there are often multiple version which are all legit, some are much
better quality than others and they nearly always cost more.
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Music Hunter <musichun...@nyc.rr.com>
wrote:
Music Hunter only sells " legit " Cds & DVDs.
Jay Sonin, General Manager
----- Original Message -----
From: Jessica Rosner
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Videolib] Chaplin film with score?
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
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