His New Job (1915) on Netflix
Charlie waits in the audition queue at Lodestone Motion Picture Co., hoping for work in a movie. Two men push ahead of him and argue over whose turn it is.
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Plot summary
Charlie wants to be a film extra, and he waits his turn at Lodestone Motion Picture Co. The girl beside him in the queue is interviewed first and lands a contract. A man with an odd look cuts ahead of him for the next interview. Another man follows him in, and the two of them argue over whose turn it is.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about His New Job (1915)
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- Essanay shot His New Job at its Chicago studio in the dead of winter in January 1915, and Chaplin found the city's frigid weather so objectionable that he soon moved his operations to southern California.
- His New Job was Charlie Chaplin's first film after leaving Keystone Studios for Essanay, and it was the only film he ever shot at Essanay's Chicago studio.
- His New Job was the first Chaplin film photographed by Rollie Totheroh, who went on to work with Chaplin for a remarkable 40 years.
