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New French DVD & Blu-ray Releases


Potemkine has just released new French Blu-rays and DVDs of The Kid and The Gold Rush. Fans will love these new editions with 108-page booklets full of articles, archival documents and more, plus new bonuses on the discs never before released in France, including Cineteca di Bologna’s 4K restoration of The Kid with a 2016 recording of the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna playing Timothy Brock’s restoration of Chaplin’s score, and the 1925 silent version of The Gold Rush accompanied by the Orchestra Città Aperta playing Brock’s restoration and adaptation of Chaplin’s score.

Available on Potemkine’s website :

The Kid
Blu-ray
DVD

The Gold Rush
Blu-ray
DVD

The Music of Charlie Chaplin


Jim Lochner’s brilliant comprehensive new musical biography of Charlie Chaplin, The Music of Charlie Chaplin, is now available from McFarland Books.

Chaplin the actor is universally synonymous with his beloved Tramp character. Chaplin the director is considered one of the great auteurs and innovators of cinema history. Less well known is Chaplin the composer, whose instrumental theme for Modern Times (1936) later became the popular standard “Smile”, a Billboard hit for Nat “King” Cole in 1954.

Drawing on numerous transcriptions from 60 years of original scores, this comprehensive study reveals the untold story of Chaplin the composer and the string of famous (and not-so-famous) musicians he employed, giving fresh insight into his films and shedding new light on the man behind the icon.

Also available on Amazon:

Chaplin's World Voted Best Museum in Europe!


Chaplin’s World has been voted Best Museum in Europe in 2018 by the European Museum Academy, which recognizes the exceptional work of organizations, researchers and cultural institutions in the creation of innovative museums, or the production of internationally significant studies or projects.

Chaplin’s World also recently won the TripAdvisor Travellers Choice award, making them the number one museum to visit in Switzerland.

And the winner is...


We are delighted to announce that Erhan Ay from Istanbul, Turkey is the winner of our Design a Logo contest for 2019, the 130th anniversary of Chaplin’s birth :

Congratulations, Erhan! We love the logo!

Erhan Ay’s design will accompany Chaplin events and communication in 2019. The logo will be used by the Chaplin office (Roy Export, Bubbles Incorporated) and their licensees, and by Chaplin’s World by Grévin.

To see Erhan Ay’s other work, you can visit erhanay.com and follow him on:

The jury consisted of employees of the Chaplin office, members of the Chaplin’s World team and Laura Chaplin, Chaplin’s granddaughter. We would like to express our thanks again to all of the participants for taking the time to submit their artwork, and for being Chaplin fans.

The competition was very tough. Amazingly, there were 195 participating logos - far more than we expected – from six continents, from such diverse countries as Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Canada, Colombia, Cyprus, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Lithuania, Malaysia, Nepal, Norway, the Philippines, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the USA and Venezuela.

We were so impressed with the submissions that it took us some time to come to a decision, and have decided to share a few of our favorite runners-up in the following days.

U2 Concert Intro




U2 has licensed from our office the use of Chaplin’s final speech from The Great Dictator to open their 2018 “eXPERIENCE & iNNOCENCE Tour” in European venues.

Watch the original speech here:



The Chaplin Revue Soundtrack - Now Online




In 1959, Chaplin released The Chaplin Revue, comprising three of his early silent films (A Dog’s Life, Shoulder Arms and The Pilgrim) with an orchestral music track he composed with the help of his music associate, Eric james. Chaplin also wrote the lyrics for The Pilgrim’s title song, “Bound for Texas”, which was sung by Matt Munro.

In the coming days, we’ll publish a new track from the original soundtracks of A Dog’s Life, Shoulder Arms and The Pilgrim once a day on Youtube so you can listen from anywhere! Subscribe to our Youtube channel to keep up with our daily posts.

You can also get the soundtracks on:
Apple Music / iTunes:
- A Dog’s Life
- Shoulder Arms
- The Pilgrim

Spotify:
- A Dog’s Life
- Shoulder Arms
- The Pilgrim

Deezer:
- A Dog’s Life
- Shoulder Arms
- The Pilgrim

Amazon:
- A Dog’s Life: GB US
- Shoulder Arms: GB US
- The Pilgrim: GB US

and more…