Behind the Screen (1916) Synopsis

Set down in the midst of a thoroughly equipped motion picture studio, with the real director tearing his hair and shouting through his megaphone, with dramas and comedies under way, pretty actresses being picked, settings being put up and torn down, there is unlimited opportunity for the wild destruction that follows in Charlie's wake. As an under stage carpenter, he goes about his work of knocking over cameras, setting up columns, getting in bad with the director, and doing everything that he shouldn't do with the pathetic seriousness that makes his work so peculiarly human. Everyone picks on him. Big Campbell, the lazy head carpenter, makes him wait on him like a slave; the director catches him every time he sits down to draw a breath after his vigorous labors and thinks that be is loafing; even the stage properties that he is handling fall on him. However, Edna, an awkward country girl, the butt of ridicule of the other applicants for work, who manages to disguise herself in the overalls and cap cast off by a striking carpenter, understands him and is kind.—Moving Picture World synopsis

Set down in the midst of a thoroughly equipped motion picture studio, with the real director tearing his hair and shouting through his megaphone, with dramas and comedies under way, pretty actresses being picked, settings being put up and torn down, there is unlimited opportunity for the wild destruction that follows in Charlie's wake. As an under stage carpenter, he goes about his work of knocking over cameras, setting up columns, getting in bad with the director, and doing everything that he shouldn't do with the pathetic seriousness that makes his work so peculiarly human. Everyone picks on him. Big Campbell, the lazy head carpenter, makes him wait on him like a slave; the director catches him every time he sits down to draw a breath after his vigorous labors and thinks that be is loafing; even the stage properties that he is handling fall on him. However, Edna, an awkward country girl, the butt of ridicule of the other applicants for work, who manages to disguise herself in the overalls and cap cast off by a striking carpenter, understands him and is kind.—Moving Picture World synopsis

Published Time: 2019-02-06 08:41:54