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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