Instead, we’re moving right on to his second, the 1925 masterpiece, The Gold Rush, one of my favorite films of all time. Again, we’re going to skip a bit and hopefully return to his first feature there, A Woman in Paris, when (or if) it gets its own Blu-ray release here in the United States. To date, The Criterion Collection has released six of them. Because I’m hopeful the films he made for First National will receive their own home video release in the United States (right now you can watch all eight on Criterion’s Hulu channel), I’m going to skip over featuring anything from this period and move right into when he was finally able to make his first film at his own company, United Artists, in 1923.Īt United Artists, Chaplin made eight features. First National would not let Chaplin buy out his contract with them, so he finished it out, releasing his final First National film, The Pilgrim, in early 1923. Griffith, and Douglas Fairbanks, created the revolutionary studio United Artists. In 1919, then, Chaplin, along with Mary Pickford, D.W. Though he had a degree of independence at First National - they allowed him to produce without a fixed schedule - after making a couple of films Chaplin yearned for even more independence. When Charlie Chaplin finished up his contract with the Mutual Film Corporation in 1917 (the films he made with Mutual are available from Flicker Alley in an edition highlighted here last week), Chaplin signed on with First National Exhibitors’ Circuit and promised to create eight films for $1 million. You may click on them to view the 900x506 image. Screen captures below are taken from The Criterion Collection Blu-ray disc, but resolution has been reduced from 1920x1080 to 900x506 and slightly compressed. Review of The Criterion Collection Blu-ray edition.
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