One A. M. Clippings 32/56
Motography, Chicago, Illinois, September 16, 1916.
Frontage of Deansgate Picture House (on right side), Manchester,
England, 1914, Cinema Treasures
& The Deansgate Picture-House (...)
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
„One A. M.“
The Latest Screaming Comedy.
(...) Guardian, Manchester, England, April 7, 1917
Deansgate, 68-74 Deansgate, Manchester
& New Gallery Theatre, auditorium with dome, London
– It is here that the charm of coloured and
decorative lighting is more pronounced. The dome is illuminated
with a large number of Osram colour sprayed lamps,
the colours being red, blue, green, and yellow. Each colour
is connected to separate circuits, the latter being
connected to dimmers. By the operation of the dimmers, separate colours and a wide range of mixed colours can be used
to flood the dome with coloured illumination of varying intensities
(...) The Cinema, London, June 25, 1925
& NEW GALLERY (...)
To-Night, 6 till 11. (...)
Charlie Chaplin– Charlie Chaplin, etc., etc.
To-morrow and during the week. (...)
Charlie Chaplin– Charlie Chaplin, etc., etc.
(...) Observer, London, England, March 11, 1917
New Gallery Theatre, 121-125 Regent Street, London.
„The Chaplin deal“
Editorial content. „England Pays $500,000 for Chaplin
British Rights to Mutual Comedies Sold
CHARLIE CHAPLIN will earn half a million dollars in
England this year. Now none will rise up and cast
aspersions at the business sagacity back of Charlie‘s vast salary.
The announcement was made in an interview
given a representative of MOTOGRAPHY by Fred Bolton
of London at the Hotel Walcott in New York, who
conducted the negotiations with John R. Freuler, president
of the Mutual Film Corporation, and the Lone
Star Corporation, which makes the Chaplin comedies.
Mr. Bolton is a director of Walker‘s Mutual
Chaplins Ltd., Film D‘Art of America and Canada Ltd., and
Anglo-Italian Films. Walker‘s Mutual Chaplins is
the name of the newly formed concern which will handle the
new Chaplin comedies, taking its name from J. D.
Walker, known as the premier renter of the United Kingdom.
The deal was put through by Mr. Bolton prior
to his departure from London. The Chaplin deal, amounting
to a half million dollars, is said to establish a record
for single film transactions in the United Kingdom. The rights
thus acquired by Walker‘s Mutual Chaplins, Ltd.,
covers the series beginning with The Floorwalker and
continuing through the twelve comedies to be
made under the Mutual‘s $670,000 contract with Charles
Chaplin. The Walker territorial rights under the deal
just closed take in the British Isles, India, Burma, Ceylon
Siam and Africa.
As is customary in the Walker ventures, Anglo-Italian
Films of Reynold‘s House, Great Newport Street,
London, will handle exploitation in all territories outside of the
United Kingdom.
J. D. Walker, president of the English Chaplin company,
is a conspicuous success in British cinematography,
with a history characteristic of the romance which always
accompanies the growth and development of a new
industry. ,It is the determined intention of the company to give
Chaplin a ,fair crack o‘ the whip,“ observed Mr. Bolton.
,Hitherto Chaplin has universally been used in these territories
as an umbrella under which inferior releases were
foisted upon exhibitors. For the first time it will be possible
to book a Chaplin per se, and the enterprise will,
I am sure, be amply compensated by an assured success.‘
The Film D‘Art, which Mr. Bolton also represents
has about two hundred and fifty thousand feet of subjects
in New York on which he proposes to dispose of
exclusive rights for America and Canada. Another enterprise
in which Mr. Walker, Mr. Bolton and their associates
are interested is the British Home and Beauty series of half reels
showing British scenes and industries.
,I am decidedly pleased with the plans which Walker‘s
Mutual Chaplins have announced for the distribution
of the Chaplin comedies,‘ observed President Freuler after the
conclusion of the negotiations. ,It is particularly pleasing
to know that the Chaplin product will be marketed abroad just
as it is here, strictly on its own merits, and with ,a fair
crack o‘ whip,‘ as Mr. Bolton says.‘“ (...)
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