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The Floorwalker is a silent film short released in the United States of America. Produced by the Lone Star Corporation, the work was directed by Charlie Chaplin. It is categorized as a slapstick comedy featuring themes of a department store and doppelgänger. The film has a runtime of 28 minutes.
The release date is listed as May 15, 1916, with an earlier publication date noted as January 1, 1916. The film holds a vote average of 6.4. Its tagline states, "I am now with Mutual." The status of the production is recorded as released.
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6.4An impecunious customer creates chaos in a department store while the manager and his assistant plot to steal the money kept in the establishment's safe.
Cast
- Charlie Chaplin as Impecunious Customer
- Eric Campbell as Store Manager
- Edna Purviance as Store Manager's Secretary
- Lloyd Bacon as Assistant Manager
- Charlotte Mineau as Store Detective
- Albert Austin as Shop Assistant
Themes
- department store
- slapstick comedy
- silent film
- doppelgänger
- short film
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Key facts
- 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
- Release date
- May 15, 1916 ( 1916-05-15 )
- Running time
- 2 reels (24 minutes in restored, speed-corrected version)
- Country
- United States
- Language
- Silent (English intertitles )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- short film
- Genre
- silent film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Director
- Charlie Chaplin
- Screenwriter
- Charlie Chaplin
- Cast member
- Tiny Sandford
- Producer
- Charlie Chaplin
- Cinematographer
- Roland Totheroh
- Duration
- 24
- FilmAffinity ID
- 497797
- Image
- Jefedetienda.jpg
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- aspect ratio (W:H)
- 4:3
- color
- black-and-white
- distributed by
- Mutual Film Corporation
- publication date
- 1916-01-01
- film editor
- Charlie Chaplin
- title
- The Floorwalker
- Commons category
- The Floorwalker
- copyright status
- public domain
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Encyclopedic overview
The Floorwalker 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.
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Floorwalker” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.