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Work

191533 minUnited States
Comedy
Video edition
Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs
28:05
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Charlie Chaplin · Public domain

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Synopsis

A decorator's assistant hauls his employer and their equipment to a house already full of tensions. Hanging wallpaper becomes difficult enough before romantic distractions, suspicious residents and an unreliable stove enter the job. Paste and tools spread the disorder until the workers' assignment to improve the interior threatens to destroy it instead.

Cast

DirectorsCharles Chaplin

Behind the scenes

The opening makes the worker's unequal relationship with his employer physically literal by having him pull the cart. Inside the house, Chaplin develops the same conflict through the practical hazards of decorating and misplaced blame.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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