Given by Serge Bromberg, Lobster Films, winner of the 2011 FOCAL Award for “Best Archive Restoration Project - Chaplin Keystone Project”.
Lobster Films, Cineteca di Bologna and the British Film Institute, under the aegis of the Chaplin Estate/Association Chaplin, jointly undertook the complex seven-year project of restoring the thirty‐five short comedies that Charlie Chaplin acted in/directed between January and December 1914 at the Keystone studios. These films constitute an invaluable treasure as Charlie Chaplin's very first steps in cinema.
Discussion of the TRIP TO THE MOON restoration, entered as a FOCAL Award candidate this year will also be included. The content itself will be familiar to television viewers, but the newly restored images will be a revelation.
Speaker's biography:
Although Serge Bromberg is based in Paris, France, he is an international crusader for cinema. His enthusiasm is bottomless, his energy even more so. He lives the lives of four men, all of them passionate and amazingly accomplished cinephiles. Serge began as a child collecting Laurel & Hardy comedies, but he soon discovered that rare old films come to him as flies come to honey. Serge will go to a butcher shop to buy some chops and instead see and buy a pile of hundred-year-old 35mm prints.
