British collector buys unseen Charlie Chaplin film on eBay for 3 pounds

A British collector, Morace Park, searched eBay looking for antiques and bought an old film tin for only 3.2 pounds which turned out to contain a previously unknown film by Charlie Chaplin.

When Park’s parcel arrived, he didn’t open it for a while. However, when he did, he found in it a film titled ‘Charlie Chaplin in Zepped.’ He googled it but he couldn’t find anything about this film. Later, he asked his neighbor, John Dyer, for help because he used to be the former head of education for the British Board of Film Classification.

The film was just under six minutes long. It’s footage of Chaplin and exuberant animation that reminded Park of Monty Python sequences. "It starts with live shots of Chaplin. It then turns into a dreamscape. We see a zeppelin bombing attack. And then we see Chaplin pocking fun at the Zeppelin, at the time a powerful instrument of terror," he said.

The real value of the film is considered to be 30,000 to 40,000 pounds.

By People's Daily Online