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PRESSKIT OPENING - APRIL 2016

Chaplin's World™ © Bubbles Incorporated. 3.2 The Studio

A. Easy Street: London childhood

B. The Circus: the beauty of silence INDEX C. The film studio: quiet on the set! D. Production secrets: behind the clown, a genius of the seventh art

E. Hollywood Boulevard - F. Wax that creates illusions 3.3 The park 1. WELCOME MESSAGES 06 4. STAGING 22 2. FOREWORD 12 4.1 The Savoir-faire of Grévin 2.1 A manor as a backdrop 4.2 The Savoir-faire of the Compagnie des Alpes 2.2 The children and family life

2. 3 The integration of Charlie into the community 5. GENERAL PLAN: WITH THE SUPPORT 3. CLOSE UP: CHAPLIN’S WORLD, DISCOVERING THE MAN OF CHAPLIN’S WORLD PARTNERS 24 AND THE ARTIST 16 5.1 Principal partner 3.1 The Manoir 5.2 Strategic partners A. Ground floor 5.3 Event partner a. Chaplin and topicality: a citizen of the world

b. The library: a self-taught writer

c. The living room: music at all costs

B. First floor

a. Family albums: a family not so different from others

b. Celebrities: recognition without frontiers

2 3 9. WIDE-ANGLE SHOT: PRACTICAL INFORMATION 35 9.1 The museum space

9.2 Adress ANNEX 9.3 Opening hours 9.4 Prices

9.5 Access

9.6 The gift shop

- 9.7 “” café-restaurant 6. MONTAGE: CHRONOLOGY OF THE PROJECT 26 9.8 Events 6.1 History 9.9 Press contacts

6.2 Thanks

6.3 Partners in the development of the museum project

6.4 Major dates

7. CLOSE-UP: A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF 30 7.1 Childhood on the streets

7.2 Hollywood glory

7.3 Charlie and Oona

7.4 The ‘American Dream’ incarnate

7.5 The price of audacity

7.6 Newfound peace

8. ESTABLISHING SHOT: FILMOGRAPHY 34

4 Only a few years separate the birth of Charlie Chaplin and that of Grévin, seven years to be precise, yet what do the two have in common? Why this link between a venue dedicated to Chaplin and a renowned Parisian museum? Together, let us explore the common thread that will invite you to discover a great museum that is unique, innovative and entertaining. -

Charlie Chaplin is back and yours to discover through his most famous movie scenes presented in new film montages and in the recreated decors If Charlie Chaplin is a pioneer and of his movie sets. Discover the secrets of moviemaking and experience the father of Hollywood movies, stirring encounters with wax figures of the mythical stars of his movies: it was at Grévin, in 1892, that Edna Purviance in The Immigrant, Virginia Cherrill in or Eric Emile Reynaud presented the first Campbell often cast in the role of the intimidating bully, but also the many moving picture, “Les pantomimes versions of the Tramp who will surprise you during your tour. We will take lumineuses”, for the first time. you on a journey to the vibrantly rich and ever relevant world of Charlie Pantomime so dear to the heart of Chaplin. Young and old alike will be captivated! Chaplin, completely embodied in the character of the Tramp: a little At the , his last residence, Chaplin welcomes you as if you man whose overstated gestures were his guest: you will spend memorable moments in the haven of peace and expressions complement the of this genius of the seventh art, so venerated and admired. He spent 25 characters in the first attempts at happy years of life in : let us tell you a story about a great man cartoons, where the comic register who lived here amidst souvenirs and dreams, in this beautiful part of the becomes entwined in the tragic. Vaudois Riviera along Lake . Charlie lives on because he is a legend. Every thread to stir up emotion Quiet on the set! Take one! Action! and laugher was present, and at the beginning of the 20th century, Charlie Chaplin would impart a noble reputation to silent movies and the art of comedy. More than one

hundred years later, he is none the Jean-Pierre PIGEON Béatrice DE REYNIES worse for wear. General Manager, Chaplin’s World President Grévin International

6 7 The idea of a remarkable museum dedicated to Charlie This quest for a site giving dimension and suppliers who cooperated to the life and work of an exceptional concretely in the achievement of Chaplin and his work originated in a meeting in 2000 individual was gradually embraced an unprecedented project, and to between a Swiss (Philippe Meylan) and a Quebecer by regional stakeholders assembled sustainable economic impacts. around the Charlie Chaplin Museum Chaplin’s World is the story of many (Yves Durand). Meylan is an architect from the region Foundation, and then by teams of crucial encounters that contributed with long-established connections with the Chaplin architects, engineers and designers to forging a group of entrepreneurs who developed the plans, specs and artists who sought to develop family, and Durand is a museographer with a passion for and studies that were to serve a site combining culture and cinema and Chaplin. The very first scenarios concocted as the foundation of an inquiry, entertainment, a showcase for an consultation and consensus-building exceptional man and his life’s work between Switzerland and Canada, initially shared very process that would span ten years. through a creation in harmony with discreetly with the children of the filmmaker, were The project would experience a the Vaudois and Swiss communities, second move forward with the and an entirely new view of the based on one key concept: Charlie and the Tramp meeting with Genii Capital in world seen chiefly from a global (“Charlot” in French) were to become the ultimate hosts 2008, when the group joined the perspective. original team to offer the backing of a museum venue corresponding in every way to their and guidance needed to develop a image and situated at the heart of an estate preserving business plan that would further support another meeting that would the integrity of the attributes underlying Charlie allow the initial idea to become Yves DURAND & Philippe MEYLAN Chaplin’s decision to make it his family residence. reality: the Compagnie des Alpes, PROJECT DESIGNER AND DEVELOPER with its affiliate, Musée Grévin. To - the group already in place, they would bring recognised expertise in the management of museums and parks of international scope, and in wax figure technology. Chaplin’s World is also a story of meetings that took place over time, including those with the state of , communal authorities, tourist and cultural organisations and businesses of the Vaudois Riviera. From a loan of 10M CHF granted by the Canton of Vaud with the unanimous support of the communal councils (made possible through the LADE cantonal program), to the Yves DURAND commitment of local businesses

8 9 Our family is honoured to participate in the development of a museum project at a scale that none of us would have imagined -

From its thematic dimension, both rich and authentic regarding the heritage left to the world by our father and also from the dimension of the premises and achievements that we observe today with a manor that has regained the noble appearance of the time our family lived there, with outbuildings renovated in line with the architectural considerations of origin, a studio reflecting that of which our father was the most proud, his work, and even copyright ® Roy Export Company Establishment his garden resplendent with greenery and paths that will be walked along again as they once were by my father and mother by the thousands of I spent a large part of my childhood here in Corsier-sur-. I attended visitors who will come here each year, from around the world. the neighbourhood school and often brought friends home to play in this magnificent park. I remember that some were disappointed that my father We believe in the insightful and innovative concept defined by the incredible was already an old man with white hair. “That’s not Charlot,” they would team of partners assembled around the Chaplin’s World museum. In say, barely concealing their dismay at not finding the Tramp at home. Alas, addition to the effort expended to offer a site beautifully adapted to the he was not there. This tramp, this homeless person, this gypsy whose cinematographic and humanistic heritage left by Charlie Chaplin, we adventures always ended on the road, never lived here. But at the Chaplin’s appreciate the use of the latest techniques in scenography and multimedia. World site, we can state that he has finally found an abode, where he will We are convinced that when combined with the use of light and shadow have a good home and settle in. so characteristic of our father’s work, they will add to the magic and accessibility of the venue for families and the children of today. My family and I thank everyone who has worked hard to make possible what was only a dream at the onset an illusory one for some to make something concrete and real, impressive and almost beyond imagination, alive today, much like our father’s legacy.

Michael CHAPLIN Son of Charlie Chaplin & President of the Chaplin Museum Foundation

11 12 concluded in less than a month. month. a than less in concluded the lake andmountains. The sale was around it,and the magnificent viewlove of in fell and with the manor, the trees andgardens owner, premises the the upon toured The happened Chaplins Corsier-sur-Vevey. the of in Geneva commune Lake location a at overlooking stopped chauffeur, couple their the of At region. suggestion the the Charlie visited Oona Switzerland, and in arrival their after days mere 1952, December In importance. Swiss the on listed inventory of cultural assetsof nationalis style Ban de Neoclassical Manoir The Geneva. Lake his work aboundalong the shores of and in Vevey. Even today, examplesof castle) (Aile the famous Troisl’Aile Couronnes hotel de Château the include His the Tour de l’Horloge (clock tower),accomplishments region. the in prestigious most the architects of one renowned was Franel estate. the of Philippe owner the Scherer, Franel Philippe on behalf of CharlesEmile Henri de architect Vevey-born The Manoir de Ban was built in1840by - BACKDROP 2.1 A MANOR AS A - FOREWORD on help extremely loyal to them. And And them. to loyal vice-versa. count to extremely able help was on family gardeners. of Chaplin team The a and assistant, chamber maids,acookandher a secretary, two nannies,several estate included abutler, achauffeur, dozen a of staff. Personnel working at the presence the required estate an large so Maintaining movies. his store to room conditioned the basement of the manor, anair- terrace, the on in a tennis court,astaff house andin veranda built a eaves, bedrooms the the expanded, renovated, kitchen was property did. The he as about clowning he that hung, and himself cows auction of at herds and purchased landscapes bovines rural a of featuring with paintings of stairwell the series lined He welcome. Sometimes organ. he would turn itshandleasasignofChaplin barrel a hall, great At installed the home. of new his entrance to the objects shipped him personal to and dear furnishings some his put had who Beverly Hillsresidence up for sale,had Chaplin, Charlie anniversaries, Easter egg hunts, hunts, egg Easter and anniversaries, birthdays recurring games, The children recall the ball case. the were such if see to watching and closely laugh not of viewers fear the by making driven Charlie, and behind, ever projector the Oona with operating afternoons, movies Sunday Charlot on old children watching The recall friends. children’s the the on of company the in often swings, playing and parties, frequent pool Chaplin, prepared Charlie by like barbecue Saturday routines, the own its had family The French. no as spoke English, Charlie speak not his did when guests pantomime of language it isreported -solely with the attempt every effectively quite - communicate to making miming scenes, funny garden, trees beautiful fruit the the of in shade the clowned in often about and tricks children played the on Charlie cheerful. was sense of humour. Life at the Manoir and shehow to charmhim with her Chaplin scripts. knew how to make Oonalaugh, develop or write to in was he where the habitof shuttinghimself away office the his left or Chaplin library at - Charlie when family least other any life the much pretty of resembled Manoir the at Life Géraldine Chaplin pregnant.” her see liked to Daddy and children have to liked “Mommy - LIFE FAMILY AND CHILDREN THE 2.2 and foremost to his work. work. his to first foremost dedicated and had Hollywood, he in as been same the was priority. artist main The his remained it age, devote to himself to work. Even at anadvanced continued the say Chaplin to life least, family busy a Despite Charlie Chaplin living!” enjoy I and living is “Working disguise. his than in other saw dressed never Charlie optician whom village the by always up, portrayed show would Claus Santa shows. puppet And every Christmas Eve, the fake the days course, of rainy on and, plays the theatre balls, Halloweens, American-style

13 copyright ® Roy Export Company Establishment 2. 3 THE INTEGRATION OF “This show is a new CHARLIE CHAPLIN INTO experience for me. I THE COMMUNITY never expected to see a show of this quality. And - The Chaplins viewed themselves believe me, during my as part of the community, running career I have seen quite errands in town and occasionally attending local festivities. However, a few!” they complained openly about the noise from the Gilamont firing range Chaplin on the Fête des Vignerons de located along lowlands below the estate. Vevey, Feuille d’Avis de Vevey, 1955 Charlie Chaplin was to get used to the inconvenience despite himself, in a Switzerland of particularly deep-rooted Throughout his life, Chaplin felt a traditions. certain fondness for fairgrounds, an copyright ® Roy Export Company Establishment appreciation that we know influenced One might often see Charlie Chaplin - and inspired - more than one movie strolling along the pedestrian streets he toured regularly for the most part by associated with his work. During the of old Vevey. A man dressed in a automobile. He liked to travel incognito, 25 years spent in Switzerland, Chaplin grey flannel suit, elegantly styled and occasionally listen to the comments and his family never missed the opening trousers, jacket with a breast pocket of tour guides. He took pains to discover night of the Cirque Knie, the main circus and the suggestion of a white shirt. all dimensions of the countryside and company in Switzerland, directed since He frequently wore a silk scarf and a the lives of people around his manor, its foundation in 1803 by the dynasty felt hat pulled down low on his brow. from the vines of along the of the same name. Chaplin loved to be With Oona, he liked to wander about shores of and in present at the arrival of the troupe at the market and the wharves along Lake , to the Auberge de l’Onde in the Grande Place, watch the big top rise, Geneva and often went to the Rex movie St-Saphorin and the Chalet Suisse in visit the menagerie and above all, meet theatre in Vevey. Gruyères. directly with the artists of whom he was the most avid spectator. “He would Charlie Chaplin liked this region, that Among the habits that Charlie took laugh like crazy!” confirmed Rolf Knie. great pleasure in, one finds the market in Vevey, the Château de Chillon (castle) where he once purchased a cane and, it is said, took a great interest in the political ideas and unorthodox liaisons of the prisoner who inspired Byron; the shores of Lake Geneva, the port of copyright ® Roy Export Company Establishment Tour-de-Peilz and its castle; errands in Lausanne with a stop at the barber’s Tradition would have it that as Chaplin in Lausanne Palace; the Gruyères arrived in the big top, the orchestra double cream that he liked to pour over would perform music from Limelight. strawberries from his garden. At the end of the show, it was also customary to take a picture of the In 1955 and in 1977, he participated in the ring, alongside in the famed Fête des Vignerons artists and employees of the circus. de Vevey (winegrowers festival), a The Knies and the Chaplins were in the grandiose celebration that takes place habit of getting together after the show, approximately every quarter century. around a table in a trailer, to share Each time, thousands of people endless tales and pantomimes of all assemble to celebrate the sacred union sorts. between man and wine through dance, song and festivities. Chaplin attended copyright ® Roy Export Company Establishment his second celebration in 1977, only a few months before his death.

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14 15 a. CHAPLIN AND “I knew nothing of Clara TOPICALITY: A CITIZEN and was presented to a OF THE WORLD very frail little woman. After the meeting, CLOSE - The lives of a great number of people someone asked her to play in the 20th century are evoked through the piano. She sat down notable events that occurred during the century: two world wars, the Roaring and began. Well! The only Twenties, the Great Depression, the rise thing that I can say is that

copyright ® Roy Export Company Establishment ® Roy copyright of authoritarianism in Europe, the Cold UP War and ensuing witch hunts. Visitors when she was finished, learn about the importance of the I went to her and said connections between a century of world events and Chaplin’s cinematographic in the naïve manner for work. They discover the planetary which I was known, “But dimensions of the filmmaker’s esteem for the peoples of all continents and you are a great artist!” - all walks of life and the criticism that She smiled and that he faced from certain milieus in a 3. CLOSE UP: CHAPLIN’S WORLD, DISCOVERING THE puritanical and traditional America. They marked the beginning of learn about an artist on the threshold our friendship.” MAN AND THE ARTIST of glory, stalked by a press as admiring - of his work as they were violent towards Charlie Chaplin Chaplin’s World, between lake and mountain, is an entertaining museum designed a person inspired by liberal ideas by the firm, Confino and staged by Grévin to immerse visitors in the intimate and who preferred to be a “citizen of the On the spot, charmed by her talent, Hollywoodian life of Charlie Chaplin, allowing them to discover both the man and world” rather than merely an American Chaplin invited the pianist to the the artist: Charlie and “Charlot”. It is an enjoyable cultural exhibition open to the citizen. He would pay the price of a Manoir. A long friendship was born. He public and a cult place for movie lovers and fans of Charlie Chaplin. The 3000 m² McCarthyism that ostracised liberals purchased for her and undoubtedly thematic tour encompassing the Manoir de Ban and its Hollywood-style studio and intellectuals. for himself a Steinway concert piano showcases the humour and emotion so dear to Charlie Chaplin and that conquered that she would play during evening the entire world. Chaplin’s World is the fourth entertainment site developed by b. THE LIBRARY: A SELF- gatherings among friends, receptions Grévin on the international scene. or, each year thereafter, the traditional TAUGHT WRITER Christmas breakfast.

3.1 THE MANOIR A. HAPPY AS A SWISS! - The accidental death of Clara Haskil, The library is a world of words, writing, caused by a fall down stairs, led to “the - - screenplays, and projects with very deepest grief he had ever experienced,” The 500 m² staging of the Manoir is Thanks to the many archival documents humanistic connotations that never stated his daughter Géraldine. Five dedicated entirely to Charlie Chaplin and photos, we can piece together ceased to fill Charlie’s mind. He never months after her death, during a the man, and to his daily life. Some the life of “Chaplin the Swiss”, his stopped wanting to write, compose, concert in her honour in the spring of rooms in the Manoir have been life at the Manoir, his relations with direct, and change the world. 1962, Chaplin would declare: “I have recreated with furnishings and personal the neighbouring community, his known three geniuses in my life: Albert items. During the tour, visitors learn travels in his host country, his view of c. THE LIVING ROOM: Einstein, Sir Winston Churchill… and about the family life around Charlie Switzerland and finally, the memory Clara Haskil.” and gain insight into the reasons that that he left behind. MUSIC AT ALL COST. led him to Switzerland, how he was welcomed, how he lived with his family - during the last 25 years of his life, and On November 6, 1953, Chaplin attended how much he appreciated it. a concert by Clara Haskil given during a In the dining room, visitors learn about reception for charitable purposes. the family’s daily life, including culinary traditions and the parties and many celebrity guests invited into the home. The living room provides a backdrop for the many events that took place at the Manoir and the prominence of music.

16 17 B. FIRST FLOOR A. EASY STREET: LONDON CHILDHOOD a. FAMILY ALBUMS: A FAMILY NOT SO THE CURTAIN RISES ON DIFFERENT FROM OTHERS REMINISCENCES OF - CHAPLIN’S CHILDHOOD The first floor of the Manoir presents Chaplin’s meetings with celebrities - from an entire century, during his life The street was quickly adopted in Hollywood and when he lived at the by Charlie Chaplin for purely Manoir de Ban. Close by, the space of cinematographic reasons. It offers a fine backdrop for the versatile use of a thousand journeys of a “citizen of the C. THE FILM STUDIO: world” as he used to like to call himself, copyright ® Roy Export Company Establishment a pantomime actor who preferred all- reveals anecdotes and his historic purpose layouts to American sets. In QUIET ON THE SET! Chaplin’s opinion, the wandering about meetings with people who marked b. CELEBRITIES: - the 20th century. Chaplin travelled a of his character at street level was In the basement, the visitor experiences great deal during the time he spent in RECOGNITION WITHOUT far more important than the richness the size of a movie set with many Hollywood and the time spent at the imparted by a set, even seen close up. FRONTIERS of Chaplin’s best known decors: the Manoir de Ban. The Easy Street decor was basically a machine from Modern Times and the The floor introduces the visitor to the mixture of the London streets of his - cabin in . private rooms of the couple formed by childhood and those of New York that During his life as a Hollywood artist, The biggest screen of the tour welcomes Charlie and Oona. The room featuring he discovered upon his arrival in the Charlie Chaplin would meet some of the visitor with emblematic scenes that furnishings that he himself designed United States. The set was life-sized, the most influential people of the 20th come instantly to mind among cinema contains a thousand souvenirs of a full a rarity in Hollywood. Chaplin invested century. Chaplin met Albert Einstein, lovers and that might eventually become life: from the portrait of Hannah to the $10,000, a huge budget for the era. who did him the honour of participating a series of virtually stand-alone scenes, sketch of Oona, of American glory in In the background, the temple in the in the world premier of City Lights almost perfectly self-contained, where the Oscar for a lifetime of work, to the colours of the Salvation Army, shops in 1931 and for whom he would feel one need not know what will happen or accounts and drawings for The Freak, his and apartments the length of the unfailing admiration. It was also during what happened before: the globe dance final film project. street and a fruit stand, the contents the filming of City Lights that Charlie (), the dance of bread Oona’s room is close by and one gains of which the Tramp would lavish upon Chaplin would welcome Winston rolls (The Gold Rush), the entrechats a better understanding of the place others less fortunate than himself; the Churchill, whom he would hold in great of the Jewish barber, passed out along occupied by Charlie’s wife, mother of asphalt street, a gas lamp inventively esteem and form a lasting friendship. the sidewalk, (The Great Dictator), the a large family, manager of the Manoir used by the policeman, a set with all Tramp’s crazy race along the roof tops with its dozen staff and projectionist for the appearances of a lawless slum. Its towards his adoptive son (The Kid), Charlie’s movies and those of the myriad 3.2 THE STUDIO dreariness is reminiscent of East Lane “Charlot” the factory worker enmeshed of great family celebrations that took in London and its touches of colour as - in the gears of the machine (Modern place in the home. appreciated as they are rare. Immersion in the cinematographic Times), and the eating machine (Modern world: a meeting with Charlie Chaplin Times). the artist B. THE CIRCUS: THE

The Studio is a 1350 m² structure BEAUTY OF SILENCE D. PRODUCTION SECRETS: built on the estate to present the BEHIND THE CLOWN, A GENIUS cinematographic world of the artist, - In a decor taken from the movie The actor and filmmaker. The tour starts OF THE SEVENTH ART Circus, the visitor discovers great with a montage of images tracing actors of the silent-movie era such - Chaplin’s life and work. It continues as Buster Keaton or Laurel and Hardy The visitor moves on to the editing on against a backdrop of 20th century who contributed to elevating to the room and learns how some of the most history, moving on to a street right rank of the seventh art, cinema, long memorable images were imagined, shot, out of an Easy Street decor, one of considered to be a minor art-form. The and edited, and can then try to edit the most emblematic settings of his visitor is offered a synthesis of the most some scenes and properly synchronise movies. exemplary silent movies, from the most the music. “Charlot” knew cities, and he always Vaudevillian to the most touching. attempted to create authentic decors The visitor can then try to mime the that were both geographic and most varied figures of the Tramp’s copyright ® Roy Export Company Establishment symbolic. The Studio is greatly inspired Pantomime. 18 by this. 19 E. Hollywood Boulevard 3.3 THE PARK - - The length of Hollywood Boulevard, A four-hectare park surrounds the the visitor is surrounded by specific Manoir and the Studio, offering visitors decors evocative of the major themes a breathtaking view overlooking Lake associated with Chaplin’s filmmaking Geneva and the Alps. It is evocative of the flower girl’s shop that emphasises the special relationship that Chaplin the romantic side of the Tramp in City cultivated with nature, in particular Lights the barber shop, the decor of the mountainous landscapes, the lake even greater existential resistance, tells and the vineyards that surrounded the story of the most daring movie from his estate. His park welcomed deer, among all of Chaplin’s work, The Great foxes and badgers. Chaplin provided Dictator. The visitor learns about the them with food in order to be able to film shoot produced by , observe them. He also admired his accompanied by a description of his various species of century-old trees: preparation and the shoot, as well as cypress, pine, cedar, cryptomeria, tulip an overview of the social and political and sequoia, as well as the many fruit- contexts that motivated Chaplin to bearing trees. Planters and carpets of produce the movie, against all odds. flowers alternated with maple, , The visitor will smile again in the elm, poplar and spruce trees. restaurant evoking the thousand and one facets of the theme of food, When they were alone, Charlie and associated with every trick that the Oona liked to lunch in the middle of the Tramp can marshal to obtain some. And garden, each time under a different tree. in the clothing shop featuring the many costumes from roles played by Chaplin, “With such happiness, I and in the bank curiously adjacent to the prison, etc. The end of the boulevard sometimes sit out on our features a projection of the emblematic terrace at sunset and look route taken by the Tramp, most often alone, at the end of a journey sure to over a vast green lawn to herald more to come. the lake in the distance, and beyond the lake to the reassuring mountains, and in this mood F. WAX THAT CREATES I think of nothing but enjoy their magnificent ILLUSIONS serenity.” - At the Manoir and Studio alike, the tour Charlie Chaplin (My Autobiography) is punctuated by encounters with more than 30 wax figures created by Grévin: Charlie Chaplin and Oona, the Tramp, actors and actresses in his movies, Claire Bloom, and Sophia Loren, as well as friends and people who mattered to him: Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, and artists greatly inspired by his work, such as Roberto Benigni, Federico Fellini, and even Michael Jackson.

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Sculpture: Several sculptors work ALPES STAGING permanently for Grévin. Faces are - modelled during sittings with the For more than 25 years, the Compagnie person. Numerous measurements, des Alpes, a European leader in the photos, videos and 3D imaging take leisure industry, has operated some of place. the most popular French alpine skiing resorts and recreation parks in Europe. Moulding: Once the sculpture is Today, the company exports its unique completed, a plaster and elastomere savoir-faire beyond the frontiers of - mould is made. Wax for the face and Europe, lending assistance to the design resin for the body are poured into the and management of huge projects: 4.1 STAGING: THE SAVOIR-FAIRE OF GRÉVIN mould. mountain resorts, leisure parks, indoor recreational activities exceptional - The face: After de-moulding, the leisure destinations for large numbers More than 130 years ago, journalist Arthur Meyer, founder of the daily newspaper, person’s wax head is sent to the make- of people, established in territories and “Le Gaulois”, decided to create a venue where people who made the headlines and up shop. The eyes, veritable ocular regions that espouse the dynamics of were involved in current affairs in general, might be represented in prostheses, are often chosen in the creating shared value. three-dimensional format. He entrusted the artistic direction to Alfred Grévin, presence of the person. The hair is a well-known caricaturist, sculptor and theatre costume maker. It was decided that natural and implanted hair by hair. As an operator offering exceptional the museum would bear his name. Then, financier Gabriel Thomas joined the duo and There may be up to 50,000 hairs on a leisure experiences, the Compagnie ensured that Grévin would benefit from an economic structure that would allow him single head. The teeth are crafted by des Alpes employs close to 5000 men to quickly develop the concept. a professional dental technician. The and women passionate about their face is made up with oil paint. Minute jobs and pleased to evoke exceptional The Grévin museum opened on June 5, 1882 and crowds hurried to satisfy their curiosity and details, such as dark circles, age spots, reactions from their clients. Since its experience exceptional encounters. What a privilege to stand beside Sarah Bernhardt, beauty marks, scars, etc., are carefully beginnings in the French Alps, the group Melle Judic, Emile Zola, Victor Hugo. Jules Massenet, Charles Gounod or even Auguste Rodin! reproduced. has cultivated the value of sharing exceptional moments. Their expertise Since then, more than 60 million visitors have come to the Parisian “Grands Boulevards” costumes: Period costumes are developed in the mountains has since to admire some 2000 wax figures on display since the opening of the Musée Grévin. created based on historic documents. been expanded to encompass leisure In the case of living persons, clothes parks and indoor recreational activities Today, Grévin Paris welcomes more than 800 000 visitors annually. Four to six wax figures are often provided by their own clothing to allow each individual to experience enter Grévin each year, with most chosen by the Académie Grévin presided over designers or they themselves offer ever more pleasure, intensity and variety by Stéphane Bern. Grévin one of their outfits. in complete safety for the utmost satisfaction of their clientele. Accessories: Great attention is paid to the accessories. Some have belonged to the persons. Such is the case with the authentic, free-standing bathtub in which Marat was assassinated, or the harpsichord on which Mozart is said to have played.

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JAEGER LECOULTRE, CHAPLIN’S WORLD WILL BE PLAN CHAPLIN’S WORLD MUCH MORE THAN A MUSEUM PARTNER - A great project will soon become reality at the - Manoir de Ban in Corsier-sur-Vevey, the last For many years now, Jaeger-LeCoultre has been residence of the famed artist and filmmaker, honouring the skills and expertise involved in the Charlie Chaplin an acknowledgement of the work world of film-making as well as paying tribute of this great man, but also an attraction for the to great directors. Whether in the workshops of region in which Nestlé Suisse has always believed. - the Manufacture or in the intricate process of It is for this very reason that we have supported film production, artisans and artists are fired by the project’s designers from the very onset of WITH THE SUPPORT OF CHAPLIN’S WORLD PARTNERS the same passion and the same creative élan: to their endeavour. By sponsoring this ambitious ensure every second bears the imprint of eternity. project, Nestlé Suisse is offering support to a Concern for details, technical advancement, flagship that will impart a new dimension to the tireless creativity and the quest for excellence region. There is no doubt that this new attraction PRINCIPAL PARTNER are just some of the values shared by these two will draw Vevey closer to Hollywood! worlds. Jaeger-LeCoultre is delighted to be paying - homage to an incredible artist both in front and behind the camera, by becoming a partner of Chaplin’s World. The Manufacture, located since EVENT PARTNER 1833 in the Vallée de Joux, Switzerland, has an ongoing history with the artist and his family. - When he settled in Canton Vaud, the cantonal authorities presented him with a Jaeger-LeCoultre CHAPLIN’S WORLD – A TRIBUTE TO A LEGENDARY ICON Memovox watch, while an association of Swiss journalists gifted him an Atmos clock. These two - items testifying to Charlie Chaplin’s heritage will “When I don’t take pictures, I think about them and when I don’t think about them, be on display in the Manoir de Ban. I dream of them.” “Reality is not what counts in a movie, but what the imagination The work of great men transcends generations and makes of it.” ideologies. As is the case with healthy derision, Chaplin’s wit skilfully combined the great emotions One hundred years after his first appearance on a set, brilliant filmmaker, actor and and capacity of men to exceed aspirations author Charlie Chaplin offers a glimpse of his life and his work at the very location frustrated by the vicissitudes of history. that not only became his home, but also his homeland. With his great personality This “superstar” of the seventh art would have liked the great pioneers of Champagne of the 19th and boundless humanism, he brought joy and happiness to the world, moving people century who overcame antagonism by advocating of all ages and cultures, worldwide. The museum site offers a unique opportunity to that wine and festiveness be shared during a meet Charlie Chaplin and share his precious memories. Cornèrcard is proud to be a period when ways of thinking and conflict divided part of this extraordinary project and will make every effort to share the message mankind. Since 1838, DEUTZ has paid tribute to of hope for humanity that resonates in our hearts and across the entire country, great talent by presenting its champagnes during for generations to come. As the payment card issuer, Cornèrcard shares the same major events, with the aim of proving, with all due values and same philosophy. Our humble contribution will serve to highlight the respect for the Noble Art, that Champagne wine is importance of emotions and creativity in our daily lives, in keeping with Chaplinian also a vector unifying the civilisations that allow it. thought. “We think too much and feel too little.” Without doubt, the ongoing search for excellence is the talent that unites those who have marked history. Charlie Chaplin is one of them. This project in Vevey to create a permanent tribute to an outstanding artist is one we fully support.

2424 6.2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS - The site planners (Domaine APPENDICES du Manoir de Ban SA for the construction phase and Compagnie des Alpes – Grévin for the staging and operating infrastructures phases) salute and thank HRS Real Estate SA, the architectural firm - of IttenBrechbühl, the engineering firms Amstein + Walthert et TBM, 6. MONTAGE: the landscaping firm In-Situ, the CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS Atelier scénographique Confino, 6.1 HISTORY manufacturing specialists Bodino Engineering, Michel Helson of - Culturetech, the multimedia firms More than 200 entrepreneurs, workers Towards the end, a new building rose of inytium and ETF, Lobster films, and artisans have left their mark on at the construction site. The Studio the Chaplin’s World site, as presented would become the cornerstone of an the consultancy offices and the to the public. The construction site exhibition of Hollywood dimensions. entrepreneurs, workers and artisans valued at some 45M CHF and completed The design of the building is long - who participated in the achievement over a two-year period was faced with voluntarily unassuming and modern of a huge and very complex project challenges of architectural integration - so as to blend in seamlessly with the associated with renovating and existing buildings and park. to create a most spectacular 6.3 PARTNERS IN THE transforming the Manoir de Ban and museum. its outbuildings, the construction of The transformation of the site into DEVELOPMENT OF THE a huge building both unassuming and a museum required updated access Videos of the Chaplin’s World modern, and the development of a park infrastructures to properly integrate MUSEUM PROJECT to showcase nature at its best. the new institution into the nearby construction site may be viewed on - The Manoir de Ban necessitated urban fabric: reorganisation of Youtube at: many and often extremely complex roadways, new pedestrian pathways, The Département de l’Économie et handcrafted interventions carried drop-off areas and parking spaces for des Sports of the Canton de Vaud https://www.youtube.com/channel/ out in conjunction with Monuments motorcycles, bicycles and buses, and UClWLh0YhZCH_Ef3JEyS9mOg et Sites du Canton de Vaud: genuine access to some 230 parking spaces on The ten Communes of the Vaudois slate roof, sandstone framing of doors the premises for automobiles. and windows crafted by stone carvers, Riviera preservation of the vaulted cellars, In the fall of 2015, the scenographic renovation of roof trusses and the and artistic teams began to work The Chaplin family via: Roy attic, restoration of the buildings to inside the buildings to install decors, Export SAS, Roy Export Company their former colours, and compliance technical infrastructures and the with environmental and safety multimedia components that will give Establishment, Bubbles Incorporated standards for a site now open to the the visitor’s tour with a deliberate, SA and the Chaplin Association public. resolutely modern connotation. The site includes1850 m² of exhibition The firm, By Grévin, an affiliate of Inspired by conservation space divided between the Manoir and considerations, the farm and garage the Studio, including Grévin International, an affiliate of exteriors were restored with their the re-creation of private spaces used Compagnie des Alpes historic cladding. The interiors of the by the artist and his family, a theatre, buildings were custom designed and two emblematic, Hollywood-style Domaine du Manoir de Ban SA, born re-organised for their new functions - streets, a studio, boutique, restaurant, the farm for welcoming visitors, office a terrace seating more than 200, of the encounter between Chaplin space and a restaurant - the garage as and reception halls - many places to Museum Development SA and Genii a ticket office and boutique. visit and enjoy surrounded by a truly Capital magnificent 4-hectare park.

26 27 6.4 CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS: MAIN June 2001 / ADOPTION OF THE March 2007 / OPPOSITION TO THE June 2010 / CONSTRUCTION PERMIT DATES CONCEPT NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN OBTAINED - Adoption, by the Charlie Chaplin Withdrawal of opposition and complaints following the inquiry into the buildings. Summer of 2000 / IDEA - Museum Foundation, of an overview of filed by associations. Maintenance of CONSULTATIONS a museum project: “The Charlie Chaplin one individual/private complaint (a Fall of 2010 / BUSINESS PLAN AND The firms of ARCO Architecture Museum Space”. resident neighbouring the site of the ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CONDITIONS and Conseils SA (Switzerland) and future museum). FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE Expérience International (Canada) Summer of 2001 / LAND MANAGEMENT PROJECT propose to members of the Chaplin DEPARTMENT PRELIMINARY December 2007 / DECISION OF THE family a museum project dedicated to AGREEMENT ADMINISTRATIVE COURT OF THE Spring of 2011 / PROJECT UNDER Charlie Chaplin and his work. Presentation of the general concept CANTON DE VAUD DEVELOPMENT TO ANNOUNCE THE underlying the architectural and Concerning the complaint filed by a ONSET OF WORK ANTICIPATED FOR November 2000 / FAMILY CONSENSUS museographic components to the neighbour against the museum project; 2011. The authors of the project and the Service de l’Aménagement du Territoire the court recognises the complaint owners of the Domaine de Ban (Michael, (SAT). Preliminary agreement obtained. only partially. The construction permit 2013 / ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE Eugène, Victoria and Christopher is subordinate to the establishment OPERATIONS PARTNERSHIP WITH CDA Chaplin) agree to prioritise the November 21, 2002 / COMMUNAL of road signage limiting the speed of - GRÉVIN INTERNATIONAL transformation of the premises into a COMMITMENT vehicles to 50 km/h on the portion of Communal votes: 80% joint and museum over any other option, thereby Vote of the Commune de Corsier- the Route de Fenil leading to the future several guarantee of the Canton loan avoiding the possible sale of the estate sur-Vevey to support the project and museum. by the ten communes of the Riviera – to private interests and fulfilling the granting of a surety for a loan of 7 Establishment of the conditions applying long-standing desire of Chaplin’s M CHF allowing the Charlie Chaplin December 20, 2007 / PURCHASE OF to the construction site, scenography, children to see the site dedicated to Museum Foundation to acquire the THE MANOIR DE BAN technical requirements, specifications, the memory of their father. Together Domaine de Ban. Private partners wishing to support calls for tenders process and the with the authors of the project, Michael, the museum project sign an offer to selection of collaborators and suppliers. Eugène, Victoria and Christopher April 2003 / ACQUISITION OF THE purchase the Manoir de Ban (conditional Chaplin take steps to create the Charlie DOMAINE DE BAN to acceptance by the Commission 2014 / LAUNCHING OF THE MUSEUM Chaplin Museum Foundation. The Charlie Chaplin Museum Foundation foncière / Lex Kohler) for the purpose of CONSTRUCTION SITE becomes the owner of the Domaine de establishing a museum. more than 200 workers, artisans, December 2000 / PRESENTATION OF A Ban, thanks to the surety granted by the entrepreneurs and artists join forces to MUSEUM DEVELOPMENT DOCUMENT four communes in the immediate region Year 2008 / STUDIES THAT complete the work onsite. The authors submit to the family a of Corsier-sur-Vevey. SHOULD LEAD TO THE ISSUING OF project to develop a museum that would CONSTRUCTION PERMITS April 16, 2016 / OFFICIAL OPENING ON make the Domaine de Ban the site of December 10, 2004 / APPROVAL OF THE Purchase of the Manoir de Ban by the CHARLIE CHAPLIN’S BIRTHDAY a daring tour intended to attract an NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN Société du Manoir de Ban SA for the international tourist clientele. Notice of approval of the Neighbourhood specific purpose of transforming it into April 17, 2016 / PUBLIC OPENING Plan by the Service d’Aménagement du a museum dedicated to Charlie Chaplin April 10, 2001 / CREATION OF THE Territoire of the Canton de Vaud. and his work. FOUNDATION Establishment of the Charlie Chaplin Year 2006 - 2007 / CONSENSUS AND Year 2009 / APPLICATION FOR Museum Foundation on which sit four PERMITS CONSTRUCTION PERMITS AND members of the family, representatives Approval of the Neighbourhood Plan UPDATING OF STUDIES. from four nearby communes, the two by all public authorities. Establishment authors of the project and persons co- of the conditions for the achievement Fall of 2009: PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO opted by reason of their regional social of the project. Reception of opposition THE CONSTRUCTION PERMITS and economic commitment. expressed and development of the followed by a public consultation foundations of a consensus draft. process.

28 29 7. CLOSE UP: BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF future half brother of Charlie Chaplin. and interned. Thereafter followed a 7.2 HOLLYWOOD GLORY CHARLIE CHAPLIN difficult, complex childhood of vagrancy - - Charles and Hannah’s first son, Charles and panhandling for the two young Chaplin made his first appearance Charlie Chaplin’s life is the incarnation Spencer Chaplin, was born on April brothers Charlie and Sydney, who would onscreen as The Tramp in Kid Auto Race of the American dream: from a child of 16, 1889. There is no official record eventually find a place of choice in the at Venice. Thanks to the iconographic the streets of dreary East Lane (London) of birth for young Charlie, which long music-hall world introduced to them by personage of a tramp as likeable as to one of the best known, esteemed and fuelled speculation on the location and their respective parents them. he were irreverent, Chaplin quickly wealthiest artists on earth during his effective date of his birth. Chaplin would became an international star. Rapidly, era. His was a prolific life: as a young state that he was born in East Lane, “I am a mixture of several the actor was replaced by the actor Walworth, at the corner of Brandon producer, imposing a style of play and child on set inspired by a mother who nationalities, but I am taught him the art of the glance and Street, the place where Sydney John adopting innovative cinematography the gesture. Charlie Chaplin travelled was also born. most proud of being part tailored to the extraordinary pantomime Europe with the Karno troop to land in gypsy. My grandmother so characteristic of him. He would go an America where dreams come true and At the same time, Charlie’s father, was a gypsy and I like from Mack Sennett’s Keystone (1914) to where he was welcomed with as much Charles Sr., was touring major cities in Essanay (1915), to Mutual (1916) and to passion as he would later be rejected. England. Alcohol was part of the daily to believe that my talent First National (1918), before founding Just like in the movies, the end would be lives of music-hall artists, and they comes from her.” (1919) with the trio of a happy one, surrounded by the love of were strongly urged to join the public to Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and his life, his family, and the dream decor encourage people to drink. Charles Sr. Charlie Chaplin in an interview published David W. Griffith. of the Manoir de Ban in Switzerland. quickly became a victim of alcohol as an in Collier’s, 1940 occupational hazard. He went on tour His achievements reaped him ever 7.1 A CHILDHOOD ON THE STREETS in the United States, the couple grew His difficult childhood, often a recurrent greater glory. Backed by his reputation, distant, and then fell apart in the early - theme in his work, was filled with public success and international 1900s. Charlie Chaplin’s father, Charles painful material and family problems: recognition, he would begin to produce Chaplin, was born on March 18, 1863, in an alcoholic father leaving home, a feature films that would become Hannah found a new companion, Marylebone, London. Nothing is known baritone and music-hall man who died masterpieces of a cinema that he gifted artist and singer, Leo Dryden. of his youth except that at age 22, he when Charlie was only 12; his mother’s would contribute to elevating to the Capricious, with an impetuous, met Hannah Hill, the woman who would moments of madness and her time as rank of seventh art, in particular The aggressive, and sometimes violent become Charlie Chaplin’s mother. a music-hall actress who played under Immigrant, A Dog’s Life, Easy Street, The temperament, he made life hard for Hannah’s family was of more modest the name of Lily Harley; interned in 1901 Kid, , The Gold Rush, the three women in his life, Hannah in origins than that of Chaplin. Her father and whom he would bring to the United City Lights, Modern Times, The Great particular. She would have a son during was a mason from Ireland who spent his States 20 years later where she would Dictator, Limelight. this third marriage, Georges Wheeler entire life working in the shoe trade. die in 1928. Charlie and his half brother Dryden, second half brother to Charlie, Sydney, close and friends always, would More than anyone else, Chaplin would who would later become a permanent Her mother’s family was from southern both be sent to establishments for mark his era by resisting the arrival collaborator at the Chaplin Studio (La London. Hannah’s parents (Charles Hill orphaned and abandoned children. of talking cinema, producing only Brea). The Hannah-Léo Dryden union and Mary Ann Hodge, both wed a second two “sound” features (music, noise, lasted less than two years and when he time) lived in Lambeth Walk. Mary Ann background sounds and sound effects) left, he took with him his six-month old Hodge, who already had a son from a devoid of dialogue: City Lights and son whom Charlie and Sydney would not previous marriage, would give birth to Modern Times. This last production see again for more than 40 years. two daughters, Hannah Harriet (1865) featured the voice of a Charlot almost and Kate Pedlingham Hill (1870). The bidding adieux to his personage in the Family life became a nightmare. Hannah, family lived modestly, he working as a form of a language without real words alone and without work, tried as best heel maker and she as a shoe stitcher. demonstrating, once again, that the she could to provide for her two language of gesture basically his children who always described their Hannah and Kate were considered to be signature effectively transcended special relationship with their mother in very attractive women. Hannah became words. very affectionate terms. Hannah become pregnant at age 19 of an unknown incoherent, had visions and increasingly partner. From this misadventure was agitated. She was declared insane born Sydney John on March 16, 1985,

copyright ® Roy Export Company Establishment 30 31 Did you know? 7.3 CHAPLIN AND , the screenwriter and filmmaker, 7.6 PEACE ONCE AGAIN - - would use this freedom to produce - Charlie Chaplin would wed four times. work stamped with a societal dimension In Corsier-sur-Vevey (Switzerland), Charlie Chaplin received The first two marriages were particularly and a humanism that would attract where he is said to have found “peace more than 26 awards stressful, marked by public scandals, more than outpourings of enthusiasm. like any other man”, Charlie Chaplin and distinctions during lawsuits and alimony claims that would Through a rebellious and dauntless wrote and produced his two last films draw close media attention more than tramp, Chaplinian humour would attack ( and A Countess his lifetime, including a once. all forms of power that Charlie knew From Hong Kong). He would compose Golden Lion at the Venice that the masses wanted to poke fun the scores for most of his films and at. Chaplin produced scenes on war, Film Festival in 1972, three Charlie Chaplin’s fourth and last spouse write his autobiography. He continued was Oona O’Neill (1925-1991), daughter immigration, children of the streets, to write, compose and script until the Oscars, and a star on the of dramatic author and winner of the mechanisation and the exploitation end of his life. In 1972, America would Walk of Fame. Nobel Prize in Literature, Eugene O’Neill. of workers, and the powerful rise of make honourable amends, awarding him Oona wed Charlie on June 16, 1943 and authoritarianism as a precursor to the an Oscar for his work, prior to his being would remain at his side until the death worst calamities. knighted by the Queen of England a few Chaplin participated in no of the filmmaker and artist on Christmas years later. Chaplin died at the Manoir less than 81 films that he night in 1977. Charlie and Oona would 7.5 THE PRICE OF AUDACITY de Ban on Christmas night with Oona, have eight children, four born in the his inseparable angel, and his loved ones wrote, produced and, for the - United States: Géraldine Leigh (1944), His personal life would also be fraught at his side. most part, composed the Michael John (1946), Joséphine Hannah with political difficulties – he who original film scores. (1949), Victoria (1951), and four in refuted being a politician – would be Switzerland: Eugène Anthony (1953), subject to rejection and the hate of Jane Cecil (1957), Annette Emily (1959) a dominant class that would never Chaplin was also made and Christopher James (1962). forgive him for having taken sides Commander of the Order with the little man. Accusations of Charlie and Oona’s marriage was a a dissolute life brought about by an of Légion d’Honneur by the happy one and they were never to leave American puritan would join those of French government and one other, from the first day of a casting dealings with communist personalities knighted Commander of the interview to choose the female star of and organizations that would become, the movie, Shadow and Substance. Their in the eyes of certain powerful people, British Empire by Queen union was a story of love-at-first-sight veritable symbols of non-patriotism. Elizabeth II in 1975. that would only draw to a close upon Charlie’s death. Oona never remarried In 1952, he left New York with his family, and died 14 years later. aboard the Queen Elizabeth. During the Six of Charlie Chaplin’s trip, he would learn, by telegram, that films were selected to be 7.4 THE INCARNATION OF THE James McGranery, Attorney General preserved at the National AMERICAN DREAM of the United States, had revoked his - American visa effective immediately, Film Registry of the Library Charlie Chaplin lived in the United obliging him to submit himself to a of Congress. States for 40 years. He found fertile morality investigation and an exchange grounds – the only ones possible in on his political opinions. Chaplin was his eyes – that would allow his art to caught up in the wave of Don Quichotte To this day, Charlie Chaplin reach heights that he could never have McCarthyism that would result in holds the record for the imagined. He was the incarnation of the his expulsion from the land that had given him access to every possible longest standing ovation American dream. From a child of the streets in the slums of East Lane, he opportunity. at an Oscar ceremony (12 became everyone’s darling who, through minutes). glory and wealth, embodied the best of everything that New World America had to offer.

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8. THE BIG PICTURE: FILMOGRAPHY 9. THE BIG PICTURE: 9.5 ACCESS - PRACTICAL INFORMATION - Films produced by Keystone, 1914 1916 By automobile: direct access from the - - Burlesque on ‘Carmen’ 9.1 THE VENUE Vevey exit off Autoroute A9 (about 4 min) - - Police - Distance from Geneva and Berne: 60 min - Mabel’s Strange Predicament - Triple Trouble Chaplin’s World Distance from Lausanne: 15 min - Route de Fenil 2 Distance from Montreux: 10 min - Films produced by Mutual, 1916 GPS coordinates: 46.47544° - 6.851432° - - The Floorwalker 1804 Corsier-sur-Vevey - Tango Tangles - The Fireman Suisse By plane: from the Geneva airport, take - - The Vagabond - Cruel, Cruel Love - 1 A.M. 9.2 BUSINESS HOURS the train to Vevey station (1 hour of travel) - The Star Boarder - The Count - From the station: Bus 212, Chaplin stop - Mabel at the Wheel - Daily from 10:00 to 18:00, the ticket office (11 minutes of travel). - Twenty Minutes of Love - Behind the Scene closes at 17:00 - Caught in a Cabaret - The Rink For more information on train - timetables and public transportation, go Adult (age 16 and older): CHF 23.- - 1917 to: www.cff.ch and www.vmcv.ch Child (ages 6 to 15): CHF 17.- - The Fatal Mallet - Easy Street Student, senior: CHF 21.- - Her Friend the Bandit - The Cure - - The Immigrant Free for children under 6 9.6 BOUTIQUE - Mabel’s Busy Day - The Adventurer Family: CHF 68.- - - Mabel’s Married Life Adult with disability – reduced mobility: CHF 21.- - Laughing Gas Films produced by First National: Child with disability – reduced mobility: CHF15.- The boutique is located in Chaplin’s - - 1918 A Dog’s Life old garage. Visitors may choose from - The Face on the Bar Room Floor - 1918 GROUP RATES (15PAX) among a fine selection of souvenir - Recreation - 1919 Adult (age 16 and older): CHF 16.- products and quality objects reflecting - The Masquerader - 1919 Child (ages 6 to 15): CHF 12.- the life and work of Charlie Chaplin. - - 1919 A Day’s Pleasure Items include a wealth of stationary - The Rounders - 1921 The Kid products, cards, DVD and movie box GUIDED TOUR (MAX. 20 PEOPLE / - - 1921 sets, famous posters of his movies, GUIDE) - - 1922 Pay Day luxury lifestyle goods, toys for children French, English, German: Package deal CHF - Dough and Dynamite - 1923 The Pilgrim and, of course, Charlot’s mythical cane - 120.- and hat. Great gift ideas and souvenirs - Films produced by United Artists: created exclusively for Chaplin’s World - His Trysting Place - 1923 A Woman of Paris MUSEUM SPACE accessible to one and all, since the - Tillie’s Punctured Romance - 1925 The Gold Rush The tour of the venue extends over 1850 m² and boutique is open to the public. - - 1928 The Circus 5 hectares, divided into three key areas: - His Prehistoric Past - 1931 City Lights - Manoir: 500 m² - 1936 Modern Times - Studio: 1350 m² Films produced by Essanay, 1915 - 1940 The Great Dictator - Park: 4 hectares - - 1942 The Gold Rush (sound version) - A Night Out - 1947 - The Champion - 1952 Limelight - - 1958 The Chaplin Revue - - The Tramp Film produced by Attica-Archway - By the Sea - 1957 A King in New York - Work - A Woman - The Bank - Shanghaied - A Night in the Show

34 35 9.7 THE RESTAURANT to sip a drink, take in the sun and admire - the Vaudois countryside after a long stroll in the estate park.

9.8 EVENTS The Tramp restaurant at Charlie’s World - is located at the very heart of the park Chaplin’s World is prepared to welcome of the Estate of Ban. Drop by to enjoy individuals and companies for private some delicious food and discover the receptions, celebrations, thematic two faces of Charlie Chaplin, the man evenings, team building, seminars, etc. and the artist. Premises within the site or the entire venue may be rented for the occasion: The Tramp is open all day and evenings with menus specially designed for each - 250 m² VIP space in the Manoir loft moment of the day. The restaurant for private events during the day and offers delicious breakfasts for the evening more adventurous, great snacks to enjoy after an exciting visit, lunch - 4-hectare park for large receptions with Chaplinian accents, and even a quick bite to eat before leaving – for a - 150-seat movie theatre in the Studio gourmet experience in the friendliest of atmospheres. Evenings, a more - The “Hollywood” and “Circus” spaces in elaborate menu awaits visitors. the Studio

Starting May17, The Tramp will be open - The café-restaurant with mezzanine evenings, Tuesday to Sunday from 19:00 to 23:00.

The restaurant decor is reminiscent of Chaplin’s origins and expressed in the rich heritage of this building. Walls of brick are reminders of the street where he grew up and never forgot, and a recurrent theme in his movies that illustrate scenes from the life of a child of the streets of a bygone era. CHAPLIN’S WORLD The use of wood is a reminder of the origins of this country home before the Annick Barbezat-Perrin estate welcomed the Manoir now famous Communications Manager today. Route de Fenil 2 1804 Corsier-sur-Vevey (VD) You will feel right at home in this [email protected] unusual place with its many details related to the work of this legendary FARNER CONSULTING artist. Sébastian La Roche 00 41 21 517 67 11 The Tramp is open to the public year [email protected] round, providing the perfect opportunity Join us! FACEBOOK TWITTER INSTAGRAM 36 With the support of Chaplin’s World partners

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