{"product_id":"9781905796243","title":"The Search For Charlie Chaplin","description":"In the world of film collecting, the claim \"find of the century\" may\u003cp\u003esound an unpardonable exaggeration. But what discovery can equal it?1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCollectors had hailed the discovery of the occasional lost Keystone\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecomedy in which Chaplin played, but nobody had the slightest idea that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esomewhere in England, somewhere in France, and somewhere in the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnited States lay three separate treasure troves of silent film which\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewould, for the first time, reveal the working methods of the greatest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esingle figure of the cinema. It was a treasure hunt involving innocence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand guile, accident and coincidence. A treasure hunt which took us to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwitzerland, France and the United States. The treasure, when it was\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003euncovered, revealed information as precious as the film itself. From the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ematerial, we compiled a television series called Unknown Chaplin, three\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehour-long documentaries produced for Thames Television.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eApart from the experience of making the series, we learned so much\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eabout Chaplin we could not squeeze into the commentary we decided to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epreserve it in the form of a book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UKA Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039296012528,"sku":"9781905796243","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781905796243_p0.jpg?v=1763615605","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781905796243","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}