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The Floorwalker
Theatrical poster to The Floorwalker
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)
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.[1]
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.
Mirror scene
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