Pssst, want to check out Charlie Chaplin's London in our new look?
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- Year
- 1969
- Runtime
- unknown
- Director
- Bill Douglas
- Genre
- Short
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TimHeaney
A lost film according to this although apparently some raw footage remains.........Bill went to Kennington, the London area where Chaplin grew up, making straight for Chaplin's main childhood home, 3 Pownall Terrace. He was stunned to find the house being demolished. He filmed the demolition, and also snuck inside to film the actual garrett rooms where Chaplin grew up. He also filmed the house where Chaplin lived with his father, the workhouse where Charlie, his brother Stanley and their mother also lived, one of the pubs where Chaplin's dissolute and absent father drank, and several other locations referred to in Chaplin's autobiography.
Bill intended to add a voiceover to the film, taken from My Autobiography. For various reasons, the project was never completed. He went to film school in 1969, where he remade the film on 16mm. This 16mm version is now lost, so the 8mm footage is all that remains of the last moments of Pownall Terrace.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/charlie-chaplin-s-london-restoring-unique-film#/story 8 years 7 months ago