His New Job (1915)
Country: US
Technical: bw 32m
Director: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Charles Chaplin, Ben Turpin, Charlotte Mineau
Synopsis:
It's open casting day at the film studio and Charlie gets a job first as an extra, then as handyman, and finally as an actor, before picking fights with the director and leading man.
Review:
An early Essanay picture with Charlie in his pre-tramp phase as an irrepressible mischief maker. What comes across as surprising is the extent to which he provokes and metes out most of the violence that takes place on screen, with swords, planks, mallets and boots up the backside all grist to the mill. As often in these early shorts, it all ends pretty arbitrarily with no getting of the girl (there isn't really one to be got after an initial brief scene of flirtation.)
Country: US
Technical: bw 32m
Director: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Charles Chaplin, Ben Turpin, Charlotte Mineau
Synopsis:
It's open casting day at the film studio and Charlie gets a job first as an extra, then as handyman, and finally as an actor, before picking fights with the director and leading man.
Review:
An early Essanay picture with Charlie in his pre-tramp phase as an irrepressible mischief maker. What comes across as surprising is the extent to which he provokes and metes out most of the violence that takes place on screen, with swords, planks, mallets and boots up the backside all grist to the mill. As often in these early shorts, it all ends pretty arbitrarily with no getting of the girl (there isn't really one to be got after an initial brief scene of flirtation.)
Country: US
Technical: bw 32m
Director: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Charles Chaplin, Ben Turpin, Charlotte Mineau
Synopsis:
It's open casting day at the film studio and Charlie gets a job first as an extra, then as handyman, and finally as an actor, before picking fights with the director and leading man.
Review:
An early Essanay picture with Charlie in his pre-tramp phase as an irrepressible mischief maker. What comes across as surprising is the extent to which he provokes and metes out most of the violence that takes place on screen, with swords, planks, mallets and boots up the backside all grist to the mill. As often in these early shorts, it all ends pretty arbitrarily with no getting of the girl (there isn't really one to be got after an initial brief scene of flirtation.)