Behind the Screen (1916)
With Eric Campbell, Charlie Chaplin, Henry Bergman, Lloyd Bacon, Wesley Ruggles, Tom Wood, Leo White, Albert Austin
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Behind the Screen is a 1916 American silent short comedy film written by, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin, and also starring Eric Campbell and Edna Purviance. Much of the film is slapstick comedy involving Chaplin manhandling large props, mishandling the control to a trap door, and engaging in a raucous pie-throwing fight which spills over into another studio where a period drama is being shot. In one scene Chaplin deftly carries 11 chairs over his back in his left hand and lifts a piano in his right hand.
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