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Moving Picture World, New York, November 25, 1916.

Behind the Screen Scenes

& BEHIND THE SCREEN (Mutual Chaplin), Nov. 13. – While

this Chaplin effort will doubtless evoke much laughter

from a certain class of audience, it is not one to be strongly

recommended. There is throughout a distinct vein

of vulgarity which is unnecessary, even in slapstick coedy.

A great deal of comedy is intended to be extracted

from a pie slinging episode which occurs during the rehearsal

of a couple of scenes in a moving picture studio. The

funniest part of the comedy occurs during the manipulation

of a trap door in one of the scenes by Chaplin.

All of the action takes place in a moving picture studio.

(...) Moving Picture World, Nov. 25, 1916

„Understands him and is kind“

Editorial content. „Mutual Film Corporation

      MUTUAL-CHAPLIN.

      Behind the Screen (Two Parts – Nov. 13). – Set down

in the midst of a thoroughly equipped motion picture

studio, with the real director tearing his hair and shouting

through his megaphone, with dramas and comedies

under way, pretty actresses being picked, settings being put

up and torn down – there is unlimited opportunity

for the wild destruction that follows in Charlie‘s wake.

As an under stage carpenter, he goes about his

work of knocking over cameras, setting up columns, getting

in bad with the director, and doing everything that

he shouldn‘t do with the pathetic seriousness that makes

his work so peculiarly human.

      Every one picks on him. Big Campbell, the laxy head

carpenter, makes him wait on him like a slave; the

director catches him every time he sits down to draw a breath

after his vigorous labors and thinks that he is loafing;

even stage properties that he is handling fall on him. However,

Edna, sn awkward country girl, the butt of ridicule

of the other applicants for work,who manages to disguise

herself in the overalls and cap cast off by a striking

carpenter, understands him and is kind.“

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