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
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"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