Customer Reviews

Chaplin - The Collection

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Beware! Just because it's a DVD doesn't automatically mean the image quality is good. Do not buy these DVDs. They are a waste of money. There are many wonderful restorations of early silent cinema by Film Preservation Associates and David Shepard and others. These are the farthest things from it. The DVD transfer made from wretched prints with ridiculous music accompaniment. They should be ashamed!

I wish I could give it NO stars, but this is the lowest I could choose.

It's bad when a marvelous comic like Chaplin has his legend reflected like this. These are horrible DVD transfers, so bad, you cannot understand much of what is occuring in the film. Save your money and put it toward the Mutuals collection. Or go buy ice cream with it, at least you'll get some pleasure rather than the pain of watching this garbage.

After releasing these Chaplins and that shoddy version of 'Metropolis', I doubt I will ever buy a DVD made by Madacy entertainment again.

"The Chaplin Collection" serves as an unfortunate reminder of what happens to classic films once their copyrights expire, and not-so-reputable publishers move in to take advantage of unsuspecting consumers. Poor production value and a genuinely amateurish package all around are made even worse by images so poor as to make the collection almost unbearable to watch. The memory of Charlie Chaplin and his cinematic genius deserve better. Avoid at all cost.

This collection is soterrible I could not stand towatch it.Save your money andbuy the Essanay and the Mutualcollections,They are worth it.

Miserable transfers from what look like battered home movies photographed from a screen. Titles are not centered, images are blurry-I could go on and on. Got rid of my copy immediately! Grab the wonderful David Shepard restorations of the Mutuals instead on DVD or laserdisk, and wait for him to finish the Essanay series, if it isn't completed already. This set is worthless.

Please do not buy this collection. Quality as well as the Movies are not good to see/enjoy. Pls don't buy.

We found this collection totally horrible. I would have cried seeing this low a quality of movie (agreed, it was taken tons of time ago). One thing we never did when we watched this collection was laugh.

The short films on these discs are chosen from Chaplin's 1914 - 1919 period, the early time of his career. Although they are transfered from mediocre prints, these are probably the best available at this time until planned restorations are completed. Most are available in other collections, but at least 1 may be difficult to find elsewhere. The packaging is nice with full sized cases for each disc. The other reviewers may not think much of this set, but their standards are probably too high. As an experienced viewer of early silent films, the quality in this set is fairly typical of un-restored films made before 1920.