abstract:The Floorwalker was Charlie Chaplin's first Mutual Film Corporation film, made in 1916. It stars Chaplin, in his traditional Tramp persona, as a customer who creates chaos in a department store and becomes inadvertently entangled in the nefarious scheme of the store manager, played by Eric Campbell, and the store's floorwalker, played by Lloyd Bacon, to embezzle money from the establishment.
But he is also right in seeing that the old way of moving white goods, in which a floorwalker had to explain every icemaker and vegetable drawer, was too labor-intensive to survive.