The Immigrant Clippings 64/72
Terry Ramsay, Photoplay, New York, September 1917
„Lyric Theatre, Fort Wayne, Ind.,“ undated, postcard in color,
Great Memories and History of Fort Wayne, Indiana
& LYRIC (...)
Special To-Day
CHAPLIN –In– „The Immigrant“
(...) Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, Fort Wayne, June 21, 1917
Lyric Theatre, 1014 South Calhoun St., Fort Wayne.
The Immigrant is
released by Mutual June 18, 1917.
& Terry Ramsay
Whose Romantic History of the Motion Picture has just been
published in book form
(...) Photo, Photoplay, Feb. 1927
„The hen still controls the egg market“
Editorial content. „Chaplin – And How He Does It
By Terry Ramsay“ (...)
„Raw film stock ready for the camera is about thirty dollars
a reel to the buyer, but it is nothing at all to Mr. Chaplin.
When he gets on the trail of a comedy Idea he goes after it with
the camera shooting film stock with the abandon of a
machine gun marksman repelling a German charge. Talking
studio costs to Mr. Chaplin would make you think that
the American eagle on the other side of the dollar was a buzzard,
talking salary – well that‘s another matter.
When Mr. Chaplin and the battery of the cameras at the
Lone Star studios got done shooting The Immigrant
he had used slightly more than ninety thousand feet of raw film
stock. Out of this came two thousand feet of negative,
selected in the cutting room, for the printing of the finished
production. This figure will appear particularly
significant when it is recalled that this is about equal to the
reported footage of film used in the taking of The
Birth of a Nation, a production which was released in twelve
reels of one thousand feet each, or six time the length
of the Chaplin comedy.“ (...)
„True to my promise I have set forth the complete science
of Chaplinism. Do not think that Mr. Chaplin knows all
these things. He can not and does not. Mr. Chaplin is not an
organized thinker or worker. If he had a correct system
of mental operation and knew how to run himself as a production
machine he would be a failure.
Science knows a lot about proteins and
carbohydrates but the hen still controls the egg market.
It is so with Chaplin comedies. (...)
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