Behind The Screen

Duration: 20 min 0:21:00

Genre: Educational

Creator: National Geographic

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: silent feature w/ Chaplin. 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., Describes a day of work at Universal City, showing the making of a Nestor comedy from the time of the arrival of the company until the picture is ready to be seen. Contains a pie throwing sequence. Stars Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance and Eric Campbell., Charlie is an overworked laborer at a film studio who helps a young woman find work even while his coworkers strike against his tyrannical boss.

Complete Record: silent feature w/ Chaplin. 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., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.