Chaplin’s lost film found in tin, sold for £3.2

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Posted: Saturday, Nov 07, 2009 at 2045 hrs IST
Updated: Saturday, Nov 07, 2009 at 2045 hrs IST


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London: A never-seen-before Charlie Chaplin film was found in a antique tin by a man who bought it on eBay for a meagre £3.20.

Morace Park was looking for antiques on eBay when he stumbled on an item that was listed casually as an ‘old film’, and even then he was really more interested in the tin it was in, The Guardian reported. “It had a lovely look to it,” said Park but little did he know about the container which included a previously unknown film by the legendary comic artist. When the parcel arrived, the antique collector opened a little of the film and saw the title, ‘Charlie Chaplin in Zepped’. “I Googled it. I couldn’t find any sign of it on the internet,” Park said. The film, with a duration of more than seven minutes has a mixture of footage of Chaplin and animation. “It starts with live shots of Chaplin. It then turns into a dream-scape. We see a Zeppelin bombing attack.

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