The Floorwalker Clippings 81/84
Motion Picture News, New York, February 16, 1918.
„Well, let‘s break the ice“ said Charlie and it was done – the
beginning of his first scene for his first picture,
„The Floorwalker,“ under Mutual‘s $670,000 contract.
(...) Snapshots by Fred Goodwins, Photoplay,
March 1918, detail
„The Floorwalker has been run nineteen times“
Editorial content. „Mutual Claims Chaplin Record
Announces That Twelve of Star‘s Pictures
Have Played One Chicago House 175 Times – Boston
House Second
CHARLES CHAPLIN‘S twelve Mutual specials, the two-reel
comedies which the screen comedian produced under
his $670,000 contract with the Mutual Film Corporation, have
set new records for repeat bookings in the history
of the motion picture industry, Mutual asserts.
The record is held by the Gem theatre in Chicago, which
has played the twelve pictures a total of 175 times,
an average of nearly fifteen times each. The high mark is held
by The Vagabond, which has been shown on the screen
at the Gem twenty-one times. The Floorwalker has been run
nineteen times.“ (...)
„Records of the Mutual show that nearly all of the suburban
and neighborhood houses, which played the Chaplins
at first run for one, two and three days has begun a second run
before the release of The Adventurer, the twelfth of the
series, and that scores of houses which played the series for
first and second run are rebooking, under the new
booking plan, for the third run.“
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