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. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0006414/" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0006414/</a>, Charlie Chaplin In The Internet Archive<br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_02_02_MakingALiving" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_02_02_MakingALiving</a><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_02_07_KidsAutoRaceAtVenice" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_02_07_KidsAutoRaceAtVenice</a><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_02_09_MabelsStrangePredicament" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_02_09_MabelsStrangePredicament</a><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_02_28_BetweenShowers" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_02_28_BetweenShowers</a><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_03_02_FilmJohnny" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_03_02_FilmJohnny</a><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_03_16_HisFa" rel="ugc nofollow"></a>, Charlie Chaplin In The Internet Archive<br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_02_02_MakingALiving" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_02_02_MakingALiving</a><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_02_07_KidsAutoRaceAtVenice" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_02_07_KidsAutoRaceAtVenice</a><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_02_09_MabelsStrangePredicament" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_02_09_MabelsStrangePredicament</a><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_02_28_BetweenShowers" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_02_28_BetweenShowers</a><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_03_02_FilmJohnny" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_03_02_FilmJohnny</a><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_03_16_HisFavoritePasttime" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_03_16_HisFavoritePasttime</a><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_03_26_CruelCruelLove" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_03_26_CruelCruelLove</a><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_04_04_TheLandladysPet" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_04_04_TheLandladysPet</a><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_04_20_TwentyMinutesofLove" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_04_20_TwentyMinutesofLove</a><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_04_27_CaughtinaCaberet" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_04_27_CaughtinaCaberet</a><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_05_07_ABusyDay" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_05_07_ABusyDay</a><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_06_01_TheFatalMallet" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_06_01_TheFatalMallet</a><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_06_11_TheKnockout" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_0
