Michael J Hayde wrote:Brent Walker wrote:I'm still convinced there is a 37th Chaplin Keystone film out there, which would actually be his first released: HOW MOTION PICTURES ARE MADE, the most likely candidate for that mysterious frame of Chaplin with Mabel Normand at the switchboard.
There may be a 38th, if you and the other Mafiosi would scroll to the mysterious newspaper ad at the bottom of my blog's plug of this historic find.
http://betterlivingtv.blogspot.com/2010 ... found.html
Michael
Michael, I see what you're talking about--that ad for ZUZU THE BANDLEADER from August 1914, listing Arbuckle and Chaplin in the cast. That was a kind of weird two-reeler in that it seems like Sennett all or partially distributed it outside of Mutual (this was when he was still getting flak from them about delivering two-reelers instead of the contracted one-reelers). However, it was filmed in September 1913 and finished in mid-October 1913, a couple months prior to Chaplin's arrival. And it seems very common on Keystone ads (though this one is for a theater and not for Keystone specifically) to list all their stars in a film in which only one or two appeared. The earliest Keystone releases list Mabel Normand, Ford Sterling and Fred Mace in the cast of almost every film, though when you see the film you discover it only contains maybe one of them. I've seen a couple of stills from ZUZU, but the film isn't known to exist. However, by August 1914, they might have even put it out again with some footage of Arbuckle and Chaplin edited in from something else. But until an actual print shows up, we'll never know for sure.