His New Job

His New Job (1915)

When one of the actors on a movie set doesn't show up, Charlie gets his chance to be on camera and replaces the actor. While waiting, he plays in a dice game and gets on many people's nerves. When he finally gets to act, he ruins his scene, accidentally destroys the set, and tears the skirt of the star of the movie.

Date of release
1915-02-01
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (82)
Runtime
29m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Charlie Chaplin

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Chicago

His New Job is a 1915 American short silent comedy film written by, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. Gloria Swanson appears as an uncredited extra. The title is an inside reference to this being Chaplin's first film after leaving Keystone Studios for Essanay Studios. It was also the only film Chaplin shot at Essanay's Chicago studio. He found the facilities and climate not to his liking, and Chaplin soon relocated back to California.

Production

The movie's title, His New Job, had a subtle second meaning, as it was Chaplin's first film for Essanay after his contract with Keystone Studios expired at the end of 1914. The use of the name "Lockstone" for the silent film studio was an obvious humorous jab by Chaplin directed at Keystone.

The movie was filmed at Essanay's Chicago studio in the dead of winter in January 1915. Chaplin found the city's frigid weather so objectionable that he quickly relocated his operations to balmy southern California.

This was the first Chaplin film to be photographed by Rollie Totheroh who began a remarkable 40-year working association with Chaplin.

A young Gloria Swanson—she was not quite 16 years old—appears in the background as a stenographer. She received no screen credit for this part.

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