- Charlie is an overworked labourer at a film studio who helps a young woman find work even while his coworkers strike against his tyrannical boss.
- Three movies are being shot simultaneously and Charlie is an overworked scene shifter. The foreman is waited on hand and foot until all the shifters but Charlie go on strike. A girl looking for work pretends to be a man and helps Charlie. Charlie discovers her gender and falls in love with her. The foreman thinks they are homosexual and in the ensuing fight they become involved in a long pie throwing scene from one of the movies in production. The frustrated workers dynamite the studio.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
- Eager to break into the lustrous movie industry, Edna, an aspiring actress, asks a busy director for a role, only to be instantly rejected. In the meantime, Charlie--an overzealous stagehand who works his fingers to the bone while his intimidating boss prefers to sit and nap--somehow manages to utterly destroy several stage settings, as a desperate young man offers a lending hand amid a general workers' strike. But, who is this mysterious lad? Furthermore, will Charlie ever get rid of his bullying manager?—Nick Riganas
- Set down in the midst of a thoroughly equipped motion picture studio, with the real director tearing his hair and shouting through his megaphone, with dramas and comedies under way, pretty actresses being picked, settings being put up and torn down, there is unlimited opportunity for the wild destruction that follows in Charlie's wake. As an under stage carpenter, he goes about his work of knocking over cameras, setting up columns, getting in bad with the director, and doing everything that he shouldn't do with the pathetic seriousness that makes his work so peculiarly human. Everyone picks on him. Big Campbell, the lazy head carpenter, makes him wait on him like a slave; the director catches him every time he sits down to draw a breath after his vigorous labors and thinks that be is loafing; even the stage properties that he is handling fall on him. However, Edna, an awkward country girl, the butt of ridicule of the other applicants for work, who manages to disguise herself in the overalls and cap cast off by a striking carpenter, understands him and is kind.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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