His New Job Movie

His New Job
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Released: 1915
Directors: Charles Chaplin
Genre/Type: Comedy
Slapstick
Producers: Jessie T. Robbins
Plot Synopsis by Phil Posner
Charlie Chaplin began his new job at Essanay Studios, who lured him away from Keystone with an offer of $1250 a week plus a bonus of $10,000, with a parody film on his former employer. It features two actresses at the beginning of their careers in minor roles -- Gloria Swanson and Agnes Ayres. Charlie applies for work at the Lockstone Motion Picture Company. Arriving at the office just after him is cross-eyed comedian Ben Turpin. Charlie is interviewed by the boss who uses a funnel and long tube as a hearing aid. Charlie uses the device with a cigarette in his mouth which gets lodged in the funnel. Charlie tries to dislodge it by pouring ink into the funnel and blowing but ends up with the ink on his own face. Hired as an assistant carpenter/prop man, he disrupts rehearsals and gets into trouble with the director. He is told to don an extra's military costume for the Russian melodrama being filmed, but he goes instead into the star's dressing room and steals his costume. Charlie is as inept as an actor as he is a carpenter, sitting on the train of the leading lady's gown, tearing it off as she walks up a staircase and blowing his nose in it as he overacts tearfully. (This scene contains one of the first dolly shots in Chaplin films). He later topples a large column which lands on top of him, and he is sat upon by Turpin, who, having replaced him as prop man is called to lift the column. Eventually, the star actor arrives, and, enraged at finding his costume missing, starts a melee on stage which ends with everyone but Charlie unconscious.

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Cast

Actors Character Born
Charlotte Mineau Film Star Mar 25, 1891 in Bordeaux, France
Billy Armstrong Extra Jan 14, 1891 in Bristol, UK
Henry Bergman
Frank J. Coleman Assistant Director
Leo White Actor, Hussar Officer
Bud Jamison Actor, Unpunctual Star Feb 15, 1894 in Vallejo, CA
Ben Turpin Film Extra Sep 17, 1869 in New Orleans, LA
Gloria Swanson Extra, Stenographer Mar 27, 1899 in Chicago, IL
Agnes Ayres Extra, Secretary Apr 4, 1898 in Carbondale, IL
Charles Chaplin Film Extra Apr 16, 1889 in London, England
Charles Inslee Film Diredtor

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