The Floorwalker

The Floorwalker is a 1916 American silent comedy film, <a href="/facts/Charlie_Chaplin/24P6I5lz">Charlie Chaplin's</a> first <a href="/facts/Mutual_Film_Corporation/CYu4oPNE">Mutual Film Corporation</a> film. The film stars Chaplin, in his traditional <a href="/facts/The_Tramp/1VIEtM8H">Tramp persona</a>, as a customer who creates chaos in a <a href="/facts/Department_store/1W8nv8ub">department store</a> and becomes inadvertently entangled in the nefarious scheme of the store manager, played by <a href="/facts/Eric_Campbell_(actor)/po88jK7q">Eric Campbell</a>, and the store's <a href="/facts/Floorwalker/ztqQcj7W">floorwalker</a>, played by <a href="/facts/Lloyd_Bacon/1jYBfbeI">Lloyd Bacon</a>, to embezzle money from the establishment. 
The film is noted for the first "running staircase" used in films which is used for a series of <a href="/facts/Slapstick/je2ugxjU">slapstick</a> that climaxes with a frantic chase down an upward escalator and finding they are remaining in the same position on the steps no matter how fast they move. <a href="/facts/Edna_Purviance/MygvbSWX">Edna Purviance</a> plays a minor role as a secretary to the store manager.

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The Floorwalker