The Floorwalker (1916)
- Directed by
- Charlie Chaplin
- Genre
- comedy film, silent film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 24 min
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 115 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Charlie Chaplin's tramp visits a department store and causes trouble. He stumbles into a scheme by the store manager and floorwalker to steal money.
slapstickchaoticplayfulfranticlight-heartedphysical comedyfast-paced
What happens
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 viewable free of charge on YouTube. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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