Charlie Chaplin museum

 Melon, floor and mini-moves - everyone knows Charlie Chaplin figure "Tramp". This icon of film history dedicated the German Film Museum exhibition.Part of the collective film memory: Charlie Chaplin as "tramp" with Jackie Coogan, 1921.
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 Although the films are almost a hundred years old, belongs to Charles Spencer Chaplin (1889-1977) invented character of the "tramp" to today's collective memory of mankind. The German Film Museum in Frankfurt, dedicated to this icon of film history now an exhibition. "Charlie, The bestseller" not aware of any exhibition on the life and work of the great comedian, director Claudia Dillmann said on Monday.

"The focus is on showing how the unique character of the Tramp has found its way into everyday culture and isolation of the films leads an independent life," said Dillmann. "Absolutely stunning" is how often a still encounter the figure of the tramp, "Charlie", for example, in advertising, and how just a few attributes to the "tramp" unrecognizable. Melon, floor and triple steps in oversized shoes were "internationally familiar pictograms."
Exhibits from private collection
The slapstick figure was for merchandising, long before there was the term. In the exhibition are countless coffee cups and egg cups with the emblem of the famous vagabond, puppets, tin toys and Papieranziehpuppen. One can also see historical posters and books.
The exhibits are part of a private collection that has the Frankfurt Wilhelm Staudinger collected since his childhood and left the German Film Institute as a permanent loan in 2010. Trigger its acquisitiveness, Staudinger reported on Monday was "a shock."
In a magazine he had read as Chaplin, the hero of his post-war childhood, "attacked, slandered and spied on - that has rocked my sense of justice sustainable." In the U.S. This one could learn from him as much: "humanity, love, hope, truth and dignity