# Charlie Chaplin's "Behind The Screen"

Charlie Chaplin's 57th Film released November 13 1916. Behind the Screen, a short film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin also starring Eric Campbell and Edna Purviance. In the film which takes place in a movie studio, Chaplin plays a stagehand named David while Campbell ("Goliath") plays his supervisor. Much of the film is slapstick comedy but other issues are also brought up such as a stagehand strike as well as a plotline in which Purviance, unable to become an actress, dresses as a man and becomes a stagehand. The film is silent. The film is noted for having one of the first Hollywood gay jokes in it. After Chaplin learns that Purviance is really a woman, he kisses her while on the set. A male stagehand sees this and thinking that Chaplin has kissed a man, starts acting in an overtly effeminate way until Chaplin kicks him. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0006414/

Charlie Chaplin In The Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_02_02_MakingALiving http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_02_07_KidsAutoRaceAtVenice http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_02_09_MabelsStrangePredicament http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_02_28_BetweenShowers http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_03_02_FilmJohnny

Charlie Chaplin In The Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_02_02_MakingALiving http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_02_07_KidsAutoRaceAtVenice http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_02_09_MabelsStrangePredicament…

- Kind: Short
- Year: 1916
- Genres: Comedy, Silent
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/CC_1916_11_13_BehindtheScreen)
- Licence or status: [Public domain (Creative Commons dedication)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/CC_1916_11_13_BehindtheScreen?play=1)