Zepped

Zepped is a 1916 propaganda comedy short film about a German [strategic bombing during World War I|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, A Jitney Elopement and The Tramp, and according to Bonhams, By [the Sea |By the Sea].

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 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 reserve price. The second copy was found in a tin of assorted items bought from a secondhand shop in Sheffield in July 2011.

Exported to Egypt

Although a 1917 advertisement in the Manchester Film Renter announced a trade viewing, it may only have been shown in Egypt. An October 1917 entry in the British Board of Film Censorship's Ledgers says it was "For Export Only", and a Ministry of Interior film censorship certificate displayed at the beginning of the film states it was "Passed for Exhibition in Egypt".