Work
About Work
Charlie and his boss haul a wallpaper cart to a job and can barely get it there. The husband cannot get breakfast. The wife is screaming at the maid. The gas stove blows. Charlie offers to fix it. The wife's lover arrives and is passed off as the paperhangers' supervisor. The husband does not believe it and starts shooting. The stove goes up and takes the house with it.
Cast & crew
More about Work
Chaplin's eighth film for Essanay. He wrote, directed, and edited it. Jess Robbins produced. Harry Ensign photographed. Released June 21, 1915. Charles Inslee plays the boss. Edna Purviance, Marta Golden, Billy Armstrong, and Leo White are billed.
Themes
Look
Harry Ensign shot the cart and the wallpaper job at the Majestic Studio.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- The cart never behaves on the way to the house.
- The lover's cover is that he supervises the paperhangers.
- The last blast is the stove, not a gun.
- Shot at the Majestic Studio in Los Angeles.
Scenes
- Charlie and Inslee wrestle the wallpaper cart up the street.
- The stove blast takes the house apart.
