City lights : a comedy romance in pantomime /
A tramp wins the love of a blind flower girl and attempts to obtain money from a millionaire to help her regain her sight.
| Uniform Title: | City lights (Motion picture) |
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| Corporate Authors: | , |
| Other Authors: | , , , , , |
| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Closed-captioned (bonus material not closed-captioned). Silent film with English intertitles and accompanying music; with optional subtitles in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Thai, and Korean. |
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[France?] :
MK2 ;
[2003]
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| Edition: | Standard version. |
| Series: | Chaplin collection (Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.))
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| Summary: | A tramp wins the love of a blind flower girl and attempts to obtain money from a millionaire to help her regain her sight. |
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| Item Description: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1931. All-new digital transfer from Chaplin family vault picture and audio elements. Special features: Introduction by David Robinson: Chaplin's biographer discusses the historical and cinematic context of the film (5 min.) -- Chaplin today : City lights: documentary by Serge Bromberg with the participation of the animation artist and director Peter Lord (26 min.) -- Outtake: Charlie tries to disengage a sliver of wood stuck in a sidewalk grating (7 min.) -- The champion (excerpt): Charlie stages a balletic boxing match, 15 years before City lights (10 min.) -- Shooting: on the set of the famous scene in which Charlie and the flower girl first meet, filmed by Ralph Barton (8 min.) -- Georgia Hale screen test: the screen test made by the actress of The gold rush when Chaplin thought of replacing Virginia Cherrill as the flower girl (7 min.) -- The dream prince: a discarded idea for how the flower girl imagines her benefactor (1 min.) -- Rehearsal: Chaplin works out the staging of a complicated scene (1 min.) -- Chaplin and boxing stars: Chaplin playfully boxes with professional prizefighters visiting his studios (4 min.) -- Winston Churchill's visit: Britain's future prime minister visits Chaplin during the shooting of City lights (2 min.) -- Chaplin speaks!: in 1931 Vienna during his triumphant European tour, Chaplin speaks for the first time on film (3 min.) -- Trip to Bali: footage shot when Charlie and Sydney Chaplin visited Bali in 1932 (10 min.) -- Photo gallery: photos of the production and of the actors -- Film posters -- Trailers (8 min.) -- The Chaplin collection (12 min.). Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 2 videodiscs (186 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | DVD; Dolby digital, Dolby surround 5.1 and mono. |
| Audience: | MPAA rating: G. Bonus material not rated. |
| Production Credits: | Music composed by Charlie Chaplin ; photography, Rollie Totheroh, Gordon Pollock. |
| ISBN: | 0790771659 |