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Zepped
Sign in to saveZepped is a 1916 propaganda comedy short film about a German Zeppelin attack on London during the First World War. Charlie Chaplin appears in the film, although it is unlikely he himself was involved in the production. Making use of stop-motion animation, Zepped may have used previously-unknown outtakes of three or four earlier Chaplin films: His New Profession (1914), A Jitney Elopement (1915) and The Tramp (1915), and according to Bonhams, By the Sea (1915).
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Within Vinony's link graph, Zepped is referenced by 5 other articles, and connects out to Charlie Chaplin, The New York Times and eBay.
Vinony files it under 1910s American animated films, 1910s rediscovered films and 1910s stop-motion animated films.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- silent film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Cast member
- Charlie Chaplin
- Narrative location
- London
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- publication date
- 1916-00-00
- color
- black-and-white
- copyright status
- public domain
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Surviving copies
- Exported to Egypt
- References
Zepped is a 1916 propaganda comedy short film about a German Zeppelin attack on London during the First World War. Charlie Chaplin appears in the film, although it is unlikely he himself was involved in the production. Making use of stop-motion animation, Zepped may have used previously-unknown outtakes of three or four earlier Chaplin films: His New Profession (1914), A Jitney Elopement (1915) and The Tramp (1915), and according to Bonhams, By the Sea (1915).
==Surviving copies== Two copies are known: one was unknowingly purchased by a collector who bought an old film reel tin on eBay for £3.20 (about $5) in September 2009 and found the nitrate film inside. He put it up for auction in June 2011 but the sole bid did not reach the £100,000 ($160,000) reserve price. The second copy was found in a tin of assorted items bought from a secondhand shop in Sheffield in July 2011.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zepped” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.