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Behind the Screen
AKA Charlot fait du cinéma and Le Machiniste in France
(1916) American
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Charles Chaplin

Cast: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Albert Austin, John Rand, Leo White, Henry Bergman, Lloyd Bacon, James T. Kelley, Charlotte Mineau, Leota Bryan, Wesley Ruggles, Tom Wood, Frank J. Coleman

Lone Star Corporation production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation. / Scenario by Charles Chaplin. Cinematography by Roland H. Totheroh and William C. Foster. / Released 13 November 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The production was shot in the Lone Star Studio in Hollywood, California. Chaplin’s seventh Mutual contract film.

Comedy.

Survival Status: Print exists [16mm reduction positive].

Listing updated: 7 March 2007.

References: Film viewing : Bardèche-History pp. 120, 121; Jacobs-Chaplin p. 136; Kerr-Silent pp. 80, 89, 96, 97, 358.

Home Video: DVD.

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