Happy Birthday Charlie Chaplin!
The Chaplin family and the Cineteca di Bologna celebrate the 130th anniversary of Charlie Chaplin (born April 16th, 1889) with the launch of the new website www.charliechaplinarchive.org .
Charlie Chaplin's entire archive, digitized and catalogued thanks to the Cineteca di Bologna, is now available online for scholars and enthusiasts from around the world, who can search and view over 150 thousand documents including photographs, posters, manuscripts, scripts, notes, letters, telegrams, contracts, everything that can tell Charlie Chaplin's life.
The new website www.charliechaplinarchive.org is the fulfilment of the decades-long effort produced by the Chaplin Project by the Cineteca di Bologna, created with the aim of restoring the cinematographic work, preserving the materials and at the same time making them accessible: a permanent project dedicated to the discovery and the study of this monumental and inexhaustible archive, able to tell the personal and artistic life of one of the greatest masters in the history of cinema and to reveal the genesis of his works from an internal and unedited point of view.
On the occasion of the anniversary, the Cineteca di Bologna also announces the new restoration of The Circus (1928), that will be presented in the 33th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato international festival (June 22-30, 2019). The screening will be accompanied by the Teatro Comunale di Bologna Orchesta, under the direction by Timothy Brock.
