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J, C. Jessen, Motion Picture News, New York, April 29, 1916.
Activities at the Lone Star Plant, Hollywood,
where the new Mutual-Chaplins are being made
Birdseye view of the Studio
(...) Photo, Motion Picture News, April 29, 1916
& Business Manager Caulfield and Charles Chaplin
(right, with hat) supervise erection
of a set (for „The Floorwalker“ at the Lone Star Studio).
(...) Photo, Motion Picture News, April 29, 1916
& Members of the Chaplin company (with Charles
Chaplin in the middle).
(...) Photo, Motion Picture News, April 29, 1916
„It has shoe, hat, toilet articles, dry goods, furs, auto sundries“
Editorial content. „In and Out of West Coast Studios“ (...)
„The Mutual Film Corporation came near losing a valuable
portion of its recently acquired, high-salaried acquisition
last week, when one of Charlie Chaplin‘s oversized shoes became entangled in a working escalator. The technical department
of the studio has completed a thirty-step escalator which is used
as part of the interior of a department store for the first
Mutual release, The Floorwalker. In the making of a scene,
Chaplin rode to the top of this and his shoe became
caught between a step and a board placed there as a guard.
Fortunately Chaplin‘s valet recently had the shoes
heavily half-soled. This proved to be stiff enough to break
the board and permitted the comedian to extricate
the shoe. Chaplin was uninjured.
The escalator is but one of the mechanical wonders of the department store setting, as this includes a practical
elevator, package and coin carrying devices, and other equipment
of a similar nature to be found in a modern retail
mercantile establishment. This is operated by a thirty horse-power
electric motor. The setting covers the entire stage,
as it has shoe, hat, toilet articles, dry goods, furs, auto sundries
and numerous other departments. The company has
been very successful in the making of this, and almost all of the
scenes have been completed. It will consist of two reels.“
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