Timothy Brock - Restored Scores

The Gold Rush (1925/42, score restored 2006-07)

Director: Charles Chaplin; writing credits: Charles Chaplin; starring: Charles Chaplin, Georgia Hale, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Henry Bergman; genre: comedy; country: U.S.
Running Time: 96 minutes

A Woman of Paris (1923, music restored in 2005)

Directed by: C. Chaplin; writing credits: C.Chaplin;
Starring: Edna Purviance, Adolphe Menjou, Carl Miller, Henry Bergman.
Genre: drama; country: U.S.
Running time: 83 mins.

City Lights (1931, music restored in 2004)

Directed by: C. Chaplin; writing credits: C.Chaplin; starring: Charlie Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers, Hank Mann.
Genre: comedy; country: U.S.
Running time: 86 mins.

Pay Day (1922, music restored in 2004)

Directed by: C. Chaplin; writing credits: C.Chaplin; starring: Charlie Chaplin, Phyllis Allen, Mack Swain, Edna Purviance, Sydney Chaplin.
Genre: comedy; country: U.S.
Running time: 26 minutes

The Circus (1928, music restored in 2003)

Directed by: C. Chaplin; writing credits: C.Chaplin; starring: Charlie Chaplin, Merna Kennedy, Allan Garcia, Harry Crocker, Henry Bergman.
Genre: comedy; country: U.S.
Running time: 71 mins.

A Dog’s Life (1918, music restored in 2003, reduction 2004)

Directed by: C. Chaplin; writing credits: C.Chaplin; starring: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Sydney Chaplin, Henry Bergman, Charles Riesner.
Genre: comedy; country: U.S.
Running time: 36 mins.

The Pilgrim (1923, music restored in 2003, reduction 2004)

Directed by: C. Chaplin; writing credits: C.Chaplin; starring: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Kitty Bradbury, Mack Swain, Loyal Underwood.
Genre: comedy; country: U.S.
Running time: 50 mins.

Shoulder Arms (1918, music restored in 2002, reduction 2004)

Directed by: C. Chaplin; writing credits: C.Chaplin; starring: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Sydney Chaplin, Henry Bergman, Albert Austin.
Genre: comedy; country: U.S.
Running time: 45 mins.

Modern Times (1936, music restored in 1999-2000)

Directed by: C. Chaplin; writing credits: C.Chaplin; starring: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Chester Conklin, Allan Garcia, Stanley J.Sanford.
Genre: comedy; country: U.S.
Running time: 87 mins.

The Idle Class (1921, music composed by C.Chaplin in 1971,
restored by Carl Davis in 1995/96)

Directed by: C. Chaplin; writing credits: C.Chaplin; starring: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Mack Swain, Henry Bergman, Allan Garcia.
Genre: comedy; country: U.S.; Running time: 25 mins.

The Kid (1921, music composed by C.Chaplin in 1971,
restored by Carl Davis in 1995/6)

Directed by: C. Chaplin; writing credits: C.Chaplin; starring: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Jackie Coogan, Carl Miller, Henry Bergman.
Genre: comedy; country: U.S.; Running time: 60 mins.

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Other Silent-film Score Restorations:

Cabiria (1914, score restored 2006)

Director: Giovanni Pastrone; writing credits: Gabriele D’Annuzio; starring: Umberto Mozzato, Bartolomeo Pagano, Gina Marangoni, Italia Almirante-Manzini, Lidia Quaranta; genre: epic adventure; composer: Manilo Mazza/Idebrando Pizzetti; country: Italy.
Running time: 162 minutes.

The New Babylon (1929, Dmitri Shostakovich’s score restored in 2001)

Original Title: Novyy Vavilon; directed by: G.Kozintsev, L.Trauberg;
writing credits: G.Kozintsev, L.Trauberg; starring: David Gutman; Yelena Kuzmina, Andrei Kostrichkin, Pyotr Sobolevsky, Yanina Zhejmo, Sergei Gerasimov. Genre: drama; country: Soviet Union. Running Time: 96 mins.

Carmen (1915, Hugo Riesenfeld’s original compilation score restored in 1995)

Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille; writing credits: Prosper Mérimée (novel), William C. de Mille; starring: Geraldine Farrar, Wallace Reid, Pedro de Cordoba, Horace B. Carpenter. Genre: drama; Country: U.S. Running Time: 60 mins.