Our artistic heritage needs to be preserved and there is a constant battle to preserve early film legacy.
Here is a wonderful short about the international effort to preserve and restore some of Charlie Chaplin’s early silent work: showing how the work of dedicated people to find lost footage and modern technology can combine to maximize our ability to see and enjoy these films as they were seen and enjoyed a century ago. The films weren’t almost impossible to view, and they didn’t move in jerky motion. Now they can be seen as they were meant to be seen — which helps us appreciate the genius that went into them. MUST VIEWING:
And YES you can buy the full collection of these restored films:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.