The Floorwalker
1916 short film directed by Charlie Chaplin / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Floorwalker is a 1916 American silent comedy film, Charlie Chaplin's first Mutual Film Corporation film. The film stars Chaplin, in his traditional Tramp persona, as a customer who creates chaos in a department store and becomes inadvertently entangled in the nefarious scheme of the store manager, played by Eric Campbell, and the store's floorwalker, played by Lloyd Bacon, to embezzle money from the establishment.[1]
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Directed by | Charlie Chaplin Edward Brewer (technical director) |
Written by | Charlie Chaplin (scenario) Vincent Bryan (scenario) Maverick Terrell (scenario) |
Produced by | Henry P. Caulfield |
Starring | Charlie Chaplin Eric Campbell Edna Purviance |
Cinematography | William C. Foster Roland Totheroh |
Edited by | Charlie Chaplin |
Distributed by | Mutual Film Corporation |
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Running time | 2 reels (24 minutes in restored, speed-corrected version) |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
The film is noted for the first "running staircase" used in films which is used for a series of slapstick that climaxes with a frantic chase down an upward escalator and finding they are remaining in the same position on the steps no matter how fast they move. Edna Purviance plays a minor role as a secretary to the store manager.