What is the origin of the hotel corridor visual gag in film & cartoons?

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This one has been done so many times. Visually, you are looking down a corridor with a number of doors on each side. As a chase sequence, characters run in and out of the rooms, in less and less order and sense, often the chased becoming the chasers, & sometimes with surreal add ons such as extra characters. examples: Scooby Doo, Benny Hill, Family Guy and others. Can anybody say where this gag originated? Does it go back to the silent era?
 
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