Behind the Screen (1916)

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Behind The Screen was
Chaplin's seventh film for Mutual.

It descends from two of his
Keystone comedies. A Film Johnny
and The Property Man,

but at the same time burlesques
the Mack Sennet school of knock-

about which Chaplin had left exactly
two years before this film
was released on November , .

BEHIND THE SCREEN

"Can I be an actress, please?"

"Goliath, the stage-hand.
David, his assistant."

"Prepare the scene!"

"Loafing again?"

Later. The scene dressed.
Finishing touches.

"Look! At it again!"

Stage-hands' lunch hour.

"How dare you wake us up?
We strike!"

"We've struck!
Are you with us?"

"Do you need a stage-hand, sir?"

"When I fire this g*n --
you pull the traps!"

"Oh! Mercy!"

"Boy, sew this!"

The dramatic department.

The comedy department.
Rehearsing a new idea.

"I don't like this
high-brow stuff!"

The strikers plan revenge.

GIANT POWDER
DYNAMITE

"Can you act?"

"He ducks and you get it!"

THE END