Silent Comedy Helped Inspire Yoga??

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I was recently stumped by the following question and would like to pick the board's brains for a solution. The query is from someone from a yoga-affiliated organization who wishes to locate and identify a clip from an unknown film:

The clip we are looking for contributed to the start of a world wide spiritual movement teaching yoga, meditation and holistic living...in the clip the protagonist sits on a bench and some boys put glue on it so his coat gets stuck. When he gets up his coat tears and he begins "dancing" with a ripped coat tail. He "dances" with such gusto and enthusiasm that everybody thinks it is a new fashion and they also rip their own coat tails and start dancing. He thus starts a new trend...We think the clip is from a film by Billy West, Max Linder or a Chaplin impersonator

Any advice or information would be very much appreciated--if any is received I will direct my correspondent to this thread so they will know who to thank.