The Floorwalker Clippings 37/84
Motography, Chicago, March 11, 1916.
EXHIBITORS Chaplin HUNGRY.
Mutual Film exchanges are quoting the new Charley
Chaplin releases at $50 a day, with many
inquirers ready to sign contracts now for the first release.
This is the highest rental price ever asked for
film and indications point to Mutual doing a big business.
An indication of how „Chaplin hungry“ the
public is may may be taken from the fact that Mutual is renting
a fifty-foot strip showing Chaplin signing his new
contract, to exhibitors for $5 per day, with eight of these
prints working solid.
(...) Variety, March 17, 1916
„Next to the war in Europe“
Editorial content. „Chaplin Company Forming
Charley Gets $670,000“
Photo. „CHARLES CHAPLIN has signed a contract that
will pay him $670,000 for the first year to appear
exclusively in the releases of the Mutual Film Corporation and
as a result there is being formed a Chaplin producing
company, involving the sum of $1,550,000.“ (...)
„Next to the war in Europe, Chaplin is the most expensive
item in contemporaneous history.“ (...)
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