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Paul Rotha, Celluloid, London 1931.

City Lights Scene

& The blind author and political activist Helen Keller „talks“

to Charlie Chaplin by feeling his lips and throat on the „Sunnyside“

set, Los Angeles, 1918, Roy Export, Cineteca di Bologna

„A masterpiece of humor“

Editorial content. „City Lights“ (...)

      „During the thirty odd years for which the cinema

has existed as a medium of expression, no other film has

received such advance publicity as that accorded

City Lights. No film has ever been more eagerly awaited

by the general public, the small-witted intelligentsia

and the film trade itself. Fanned to a pitch of semi-hysterical

anticipation by the Press, the cinemagoing public

was prepared to find in Chaplin‘s new comedy a masterpiece

of humor, eclipsing the brilliance of both The Circus

and The Gold Rush.“ (...)

      Celluloid. The Film To-Day, Paul Rotha

      (Founder of the Film Group, Author of The Film till Now),

      Longmans, Green and Co.,

      London, New York, Toronto 1931  

    

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