Rare Charlie Chaplin Film Found in Junk Shop
An unemployed man has discovered a rare Charlie Chaplin film among a junk shop job lot.Brian Hann, 40, found the 35mm nitrate film at the Second Time Around shop in South Shields. The seven-minute footage is part of a first world war propaganda movie titled Zepped which Chaplin filmed in 1917 in an effort to help defuse the terror inspired by Zeppelin bombing raids over London. Last week, what was believed to be the only copy went on sale at Bonhams auction house in London for £100,000.
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It's fitting that a film about Charlie Chaplin lay lost and forgotten in a second-hand shop - it could be the script for one of his films. Chaplin himself was "lost and forgotten" as a child growing up in poverty on the streets of London, only to be discovered later for his true value.
Readers may also be interested to view my own little film about Charlie called, "London remembers Charlie Chaplin." It celebrates the little man's birth in London in 1889, because of course Charlie Chaplin was a Londoner. My 4-minute video is free to watch on my YouTube channel at http://www.EyesEars.com:
http://youtu.be/Kc7l4ku9ATU