Behind the Screen (1916) - full transcript
Three movies are being shot simultaneously and Charlie is an overworked scene shifter. The foreman is waited on hand and foot until all the shifters but Charlie go on strike. A girl looking for work pretends to be a man and helps Charlie. Charlie discovers her gender and falls in love with her. The foreman thinks they are homosexual and in the ensuing fight they become involved in a long pie throwing scene from one of the movies in production. The frustrated workers dynamite the studio.
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 13, 1916.
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 gun --
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
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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 13, 1916.
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 gun --
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
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.:: ENGsub by Korf (UIN#104538656) ::.