BERN, Switzerland, April. 6 2016-Recognized as the most popular comic silent film and one of the most brilliant artists of the Seventh Art, a genre in which he also excelled as a producer and director, British Charles Chaplin will be remembered 127 years after his birth with opening Chaplins World museum.
this exhibition is dedicated to the life and work of the actor was opened in Switzerland on April 16, the day he was born, and will open its doors to the public one day after .
the museum is located in his former home in Corsier-sur-Vevey, where the actor lived for 25 years with his wife Oona O’Neill, daughter of Nobel prize winner Eugene O ‘ Neill, and their eight children.
Chaplin moved to Switzerland in 1952, during the era of the ‘witch hunt’ led by Senator Eugene McCarthy, and lived on this site until the day of his death the December 25, 1977.
the museum is a project promoted since 2000 by Canadian Jean-Pierre Pigeon that has the approval of the heirs of Chaplin, who made available albums and home videos.
Chaplin’s World is also a cultural center that will house exhibitions and film screenings; the second floor of the house, a space of 250 square meters, will be rent for private events.
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin was born on April 16, 1889 in one of the poorest neighborhoods in London, within a family of entertainers, so a child she performed in musicals and pantomimes, never imagining that achieve fame with his silent films and would become part of film history.
in 1910 he traveled to America on tour with the company for which he worked, and settled in that country permanently two years later.
he first appeared on the big screen in 1913, in strips Keystone, Mack Sennett, but was in the movie “auto Racing children” (or “suffocating Carreras”, 1914) who first played the role of vagabond “Charlot”.
character transpired wearing a baggy pants, big shoes, bowler hat and bamboo cane, since it represented in more than 70 films.
His creation of the little tramp “Charlot” is a universal symbol of individuality indestructible, triumph over adversity and persecution, both human and mechanical, same that gave him worldwide fame as a comedian and dramatic actor.
Chaplin perfected a personal style of interpretation, derived circus clown and mime combining acrobatic elegance, expressive gesture and facial eloquence, with a sense of impeccable rhythm.
Given its success, in 1915 he teamed up with the company Essanay, then with the Mutual and the First National, to have their own studios in Hollywood in 1918.
in 1919 he founded, along with Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and DW Griffith United Artists Corporation, which continue until 1952.
During those years of short films developed gradually its peculiar character, after the famous production of “The Tramp” (or “Charlot vagabond”, 1915 ).
Never broke the stereotype of the wicked clown compassionate human figure reaching impact on viewers around the world.
all films most renowned marked successive records box office, however that some were made during the era of talkies, same as on arrival, at the end of the decade of the 20s of last century, did not impair the effectiveness of their pantomime, which depended largely creation.
at the same time began to express concern about the social problems of his time, and then abandoned the role of vagabond to specific characters, a transition that marked “the great dictator” (1940) , which already fully he used the resources of talkies.
in this film productions followed others of great importance as “Monsieur Verdoux” (1947) -in which last appeared his character ” Charlot “-; “Limelight” (1952) and “A King in New York” (1957).
Apart directed, without protagonizarlas, “A Woman of Paris” (1923) and “A Countess from Hong Kong” (1966 ), a film in which he made a small role. I also composed the music for most of his film work.
The “Chaplin’s” approach combined satire and melodramatic pathos, under which throbbed love for humanity and individual freedom.
a Chaplin also liked writing and this activity two books emerged. “My autobiography” (1964) and “My life in film” (1975)
it was not all glory the director, since the late 40s and early 50s suffered the persecution of “McCarthyism” or “witch hunt” by his political thinking left, forcing him to leave the United States in 1952 and established in Switzerland.
in 1972 made a brief trip to the American Union to receive several awards, including an honorary Oscar for his contribution to cinematography.
the health of the elderly actor began to decline since the mid-1960s, when he finished filming “a Countess from Hong Kong”, he was later diagnosed dementia, a degenerative disease that caused various visual, motor and communication complications; also suffered from asthma
Chaplin, who in 1975 was knighted in his homeland and on occasion he said:. “. I’m not a politician; I believe in freedom That’s all my political” died December 24, 1977, in Corsier-Sur-Vevey, Switzerland.
in 2011, Chaplin was the subject of a tribute to fulfill 122 years of his birth, in which context it was held, inter alia, Season Two Silent film, with a selection of six films English classic, the Symphony Hall of the University Cultural Complex of the Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP), with free admission.
the program they highlighted the films “the gold Rush”, “Limelight”, “city Lights” and “boy”.
by 2014 the fourth edition of Charlie Chaplin Comedy film Festival was held in the village Waterville on the Ring of Kerry, southwest Ireland, where various events, projects and workshops, as well as a themed street in honor of the actor were made.
The following year, in April, at the National Film Barbachano Manuel Ponce, the Theatre “Armando Manzanero” Yucatan, free performances in which the artist’s masterpieces were screened were offered.
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