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J.C. Jessen, Motion Picture News, New York, January 26, 1918.
Chaplin pendant la construction de ses studios hollywoodiens
– Los Angeles, 1918, charliechaplin.com
& Chaplin Does a Stunt
(...) Photo, Moving Picture World, Feb. 2, 1918
& Chaplin Begins Work on Coast
The New York officers of The First National Exhibitors‘
Circuit have received news per telegraph from
California as follows: „Charlie started work today, will deliver
first comedy in six weeks“ – which will place the
release date of the first comedy in the latter part of February.
A letter from Sid, the comedian‘s brother,
received a day or two previous to the receipt of the wire,
caused no little apprehension on the part of the
Circuit‘s officers. It stated that Charlie, while doing a bit of wire
walking on the steel roof frame of the new studio lost
his balance and came mighty near cancelling his contract
by a tumble to the hardwood studio floor,
forty feet below.
(...) Motion Picture News, Feb. 2, 1918
Identical with Moving Picture World, Feb. 2, 1918.
„Four or five stories ready for production“
Editorial content. „In and Out of West Coast Studios
By J. C. Jessen“ (...)
„Chaplin‘s Studio Ready
The Charlie Chaplin studio was receiving the finishing
touches last week, and active production will be
started within the next day or two. The stages – an open-air
and steel-and-glass-inclosed one – have been ready
for some time, but production has been delayed for want
of the necessary settings and peculiar equipment
necessary for the making of such comedies as Chaplin will
turn out for the First National Association.
Mr. Chaplin has engaged a staff of writers, which includes
Charles Reisner, song writer and vaudeville actor;
Melville Brown and Charles Lappworh, and the organization
working with Mr. Chaplin now have four or five stories
ready for production. The heads of the several departments
for the Chaplin studio include John Jasper as manager,
Frank Crompton, technical director; Roland Totheroh, cameraman,
and Carlyle Robinson, director of publicity. The only
players so far engaged are Edna Purviance, who has played
in more than a score of Chaplin comedies; Henry
Bergman and Albert Austin, comedians.
Mr. Chaplin celebrated the birth of 1918 by giving a stag
dinner to the heads of the departments at Hotel
Alexandria. A few minutes past twelve he was carried
to the stage by a crowd of admirers and forced
to make the welcome speech to the New Year. This he did
in his usual modest and unassuming, yet highly
entertaining, manner. Charles Reisner of the Chaplin party
sang the patriotic song of which he is author,
Good-bye Broadway, Hello France, and others of the
Chaplin dinner party gave numbers.“
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