Stepping Out: Edited Sequence
The Circus • 9m 56s
In the 1980s, film archivist Kevin Brownlow and David Gill screened thousands of feet of outtakes from Charlie Chaplin's silent movies for what would become the British television series “Unknown Chaplin.” One treasure from THE CIRCUS is the deleted sequence presented here, edited by Brownlow and Gill as Chaplin might have, and with a score composed by Timothy Brock.
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