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Author Topic: The Essential Charlie Chaplin - review and warning Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 08-15-2003 10:41 PM                     quote: By the way, does anyone know who got the rights to the Blackhawk collection? David Shepard.  |  IP: Logged Bill Carter Expert Film Handler Posts: 162 From: Minneapolis, Minnesota Registered: Sep 1999 posted 08-16-2003 01:23 AM                     David Shepard (who once worked for Blackhawk in Davenport, Iowa) bought the 16mm negative library some years after Blackhawk's demise. His company, Film Preservation Associates, can still provide new 16mm prints of this material. Some titles have even been upgraded since the Blackhawk days. David does indeed own the bona-fide Chaplin Mutual negatives. Newly struck, full-silent-aperture 35mm prints from these elements can be booked theatrically from Kino International in New York. David produced the now out of print Image discs of the Chaplin features, which were originally mastered for Laser disc. Working with the Chaplin estate, he used the best elements made available to him for those masters. David is also responsible for the amazing Buster Keaton multiple box set, the "good" versions of Chaplin's Keystones, Essanays, and Mutuals, plus a staggering number of other silent features and shorts that are/were available from Image Entertainment (disc) and Kino International (VHS). The lousy Chaplin discs that Brad mentions in the beginning of this thread keep cropping up again and again, from several different companies in a variety of packaging. Some of these masters were created by shooting projected 8mm (NOT a typo--8mm) prints with a camcorder. This is absolutely the worst you'll ever see these public domain shorts look. Unfortunately, the box art on the new Warner Bros. DVD set looks very similar to some of these horrible ones. Don't get fooled.  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 08-16-2003 09:18 AM                     The Chaplins I have on 16mm I have replaced most of them over the years due to better source material available....possibly due to Mr. Shepard's input. I started collecting Blackhawk 16mm as a teenager in the 1960's. In 1969 I was in Davenport with a traveling show as a stage electrician / followspot operator and spent the afternoon at the "red brick" building that housed Blackhawk Films. The staff treated me as a VIP and where happy to show the magic they did on their premises.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 08-16-2003 09:14 PM                       I saw "The Gold Rush" on TCM, I believe it was, a few weeks ago. I couldn't get over how good it looked! It looked like it was shot yesterday!  |  IP: Logged Hillary Charles Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 748 From: York, PA, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 08-17-2003 07:28 AM                     Brand-new 16mm prints of great silent titles once carried by Blackhawk are available again at www.filmclassic.com.  |  IP: Logged

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