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Auction History Result 8d175 GOLD RUSH pressbook 1925 Charlie Chaplin comedy classic, great poster images, ultra rare! Date Sold 7/16/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 9 1/2" x 12 1/4" [24 x 31 cm]; 16 pages) (Learn More) The Gold Rush, the classic 1925 Charles Chaplin silent Alaska Yukon rags-to-riches romantic slapstick comedy ("A Dramatic Comedy"; "Written and Directed [and scored] by Charlie Chaplin"; Chaplin is a prospector who goes to Alaska by himself in search of gold, and he falls in love with a dance hall girl who doesn't even notice him, and he gets lost and has many adventures) starring Charlie Chaplin (Charles Chaplin), Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Georgia Hale, and Henry Bergman. Note that this movie not only contains the classic sequence of the snowbound Chaplin and Mack Swain sharing a shoe and eating it because they are starving, but it also contains the equally classic scene of Chaplin putting two dinner rolls on forks and making them "dance"! Also note that the movie was filmed "on location", but only for a small part of the movie did they go to the High Sierras. For the close scenes, Chaplin had artificial mountains created out of chicken wire and burlap covering 200 tons of plaster, 285 tons of salt, and 100 barrels of flour, and the artificial ice and snow was made of the same materials. 4 carloads of "cornfetti" were used for the blizzard scenes. They also transported much of the same material to the Sierra mountains to enhance the scenes shot there. The entire production took over a year, from first filming to final cut! This is surely Charlie Chaplin's greatest movie, and it is hard to argue with anyone describing it as the single greatest silent movie ever made, and both the movie and Chaplin are known the world over, even to people who have never seen this movie (but they certainly should see it!). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have provided an image of the front and back pages of this pressbook (if the back is not the poster page, we photographed the interior poster pages), and of course, the winner of this auction will receive the entire single pressbook we are auctioning (plus any supplements or heralds described above)!
UPDATED 07/14/2017: Note that a knowledgeable collector tells us that this rare pressbook originally had a black cover with gold ink depicting art of the back of The Tramp, with the title of the film and the purpose of the pressbook printed below. The inside front cover, rear cover and inside rear cover were all blank. Because of this, we have updated the Condition information and the Important Added Information section. Condition: fair to good, WITH CUTS. The pressbook is missing the front and back covers, there are smudges on the first and last page, and some small tears and tiny bits of paper loss at the spine edge of the last page. The interior pages are in pretty nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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