A Film Johnnie was an elementary affair, shot around the studio but, like Chaplin’s later films, The Masquerader, His New Job and Behind the Screen, gives us evocative glimpses of life in the early Californian studios. Charlie goes to the cinema and falls for the star of the film. He then pursues her to the Keystone Studios, where he causes havoc among the productions. Fire breaks out and he is squirted by the fire brigade. In a crazy, funny little gag, he twists his ears and thereby gives the fireman a retaliatory squirt. David Robinson, Chaplin. His Life and Art, William Collins, 1985