Unique Charlie Chaplin Film to Sell at Bonhams’ Entertainment Memorabilia Auction

artwork: Charlie Chaplin on extremely fragile 35mm nitrate film and almost 7 minutes long, the movie features some of the earliest known animation in film history. - Photo: Bonhams.


LONDON.-
Bonhams are to sell the remarkable, only known surviving copy of the film ‘Zepped’ in their Entertainment Memorabilia auction on Wednesday 29th June at Bonhams Knightsbridge. In 2009 the vendor Morace Park bought a battered cinema reel tin from an online auction site. Once he eventually opened the tin it revealed a roll of film entitled ‘Charlie Chaplin in Zepped’. Having been unable to find any record or mention of the film during his subsequent research, Mr Park began a worldwide investigation to find out if he had discovered the last copy of a forgotten Charlie Chaplin film.

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