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16 August 2024 Bonn (Germany)
Internationale Stummfilmtage: Behind the Screen
Neil Brand (Piano) & Günter A. Buchwald (piano, violin) - Arkadenhof der Universität Bonn
Program Info: The twelve short film comedies that Charlie Chaplin produced for the Mutual company in 1916/17 are among his best works. In BEHIND THE SCREEN, which was only shown in Germany in July 1922, Chaplin plays the assistant to a tough prop master and causes chaos in a film studio. For international distribution, Chaplin assembled several negatives from different shots, with the best “A” negative reserved for the domestic market. During the restoration of all of Chaplin's Mutual films in 2013/14, material from the "A" negative was used for the first time.
The twelve short film comedies that Charlie Chaplin produced for the Mutual Film Company in 1916/17 rank among his best works. In BEHIND THE SCREEN, which was not shown in Germany until July 1922, Chaplin plays the assistant of a strict property man and causes chaos in a film studio. For international distribution, Chaplin edited together several negatives from different takes, with the best "A" negative reserved for the domestic market. In the course of the restoration of all of Chaplin's Mutual films in 2013/14, material from the superior "A" negative was utilised for the first time.
No parliamentarian is the most famous man in the world and no politician, neither Wilson nor Poincaré - no inventor, no tenor, no aircraft pilot. The most famous person is undoubtedly Mr. Charlie Chaplin, at whom everyone once laughed: the Parisians and the Londoners, all the Americans and the Australian sailors, the visitors to the Chinese cinemas and recently also the Germans […]. From the eight or ten films that have come to Germany so far, a wealth of details remain, each of which is played to perfection. […] Man must have an unheard-of power of observation, a stealing eye. He can imitate the movements of all crafts. Once [in CHAPLIN AT ANNA BOLEYN] he styled the head of a bear's bed rug: with what feminine grace and with what bored matter-of-factness he handled the comb and brush and, after shampooing, dried his wet head lightly and elegantly and superficially! This shows the natural comedy of this great artist. When our mimes imitate a craftsman on stage, you can see that they have never observed him: no shoemaker knocks like that, no scribe writes like that, no coachman moves like that. Chaplin knows them all.
Kurt Tucholsky, in: Prager Tagblatt, July 22, 1922
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