The Floor Walker
(2017, original release: 1916)
Nonfiction
eVideo
Details
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
ISBN/ISSN
1374795
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Title from title frames
The Floorwalker, Chaplin’s first film under his landmark contract with Lone Star-Mutual, has embezzlement as its subject. Chaplin’s inspiration for the film came while he and his brother Sydney were in New York City negotiating his contract with Mutual. While walking up Sixth Avenue at Thirty-third Street, Chaplin saw a man fall down an escalator serving the adjacent elevated train station and at once realized the comic possibilities of a moving staircase
In Process Record
Film
Originally produced by Flicker Alley in 1916
Mode of access: World Wide Web
In English