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Sennett's slapstick comedies were noted for their wild car chases and custard pie warfare.
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Some historians credit Sennett's films with having been responsible for municipal police forces across North America altering their uniforms to include military style officers ' caps since by the 1920s tall, British-style hats had become so indelibly associated with slapstick comedy.
Inspired by Mack Sennett's slapstick Keystone Kops series of silent films, the object of the game is for Officer Keystone Kelly ( the user ) to catch Harry Hooligan before he can escape from the department store.
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Pathé had a huge market share, but made bad corporate decisions, such as attempting to sell too many comedies at once ( including those of Sennett's main competitor, Hal Roach ).
However, Sennett enjoyed great success with short comedies starring Bing Crosby ; these films were probably instrumental in Sennett's product being picked up by a major studio, Paramount Pictures.
* Lahue, Kalton ( 1971 ); Mack Sennett's Keystone: The man, the myth and the comedies ; New York: Barnes ; ISBN 978-0-498-07461-5
* Lahue, Kalton ( 1971 ); Mack Sennett's Keystone: The man, the myth and the comedies ; New York: Barnes ; ISBN 978-0-498-07461-5
At times it echoes the chase music that used to accompany Mack Sennett's silent comedies, and traces of operatic Kurt Weill and romantic Jacques Brel can be heard as well.
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( Sennett's corporate bosses retained the Keystone trademark and produced a cheap series of comedy shorts that were " Keystones " in name only: they were unsuccessful, and Sennett had no connection with them.
Many of Sennett's films of the early 1920s were inherited by Warner Brothers when Warners merged with the original distributor, First National.
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She was a popular star of Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios and is noted as one of the film industry's first female screenwriters, producers and directors.
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She also worked for Pathé Exchange and appeared as one of Mack Sennett's Bathing Beauties in 1928.
Eddie Cline began working for Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios in 1914 and supported Charlie Chaplin in some of the shorts he made at the studio.
He also produced story ideas and directed silent movies with Mack Sennett for Keystone Studios, according to Sennett's biography The King of Comedy.
Her first films portrayed her as a bathing beauty, but Normand quickly demonstrated a flair for comedy and became a star of Sennett's short films.
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They reduced the usual frenetic pace of Sennett's films to give the audience a chance to appreciate the subtlety and finesse of their movement, and the cleverness of their gags.
The 1943 film Spook Louder, a remake of Mack Sennett's The Great Pie Mystery, is often cited as their worst film.
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Sennett's style of " pie in the face " comedy is different from Chaplin's slower, more deliberate style, and when Charlie tries to assert his ideas, Sennett gives him some strong advice (" Less It Ends With a Chase ").
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops ( 1955 ) included a lengthy chase scene, showcasing a group of stuntmen dressed as Sennett's squad.
He claimed that the most respected lawyer in town, Northampton mayor ( and future President of the United States ) Calvin Coolidge, as well as Sennett's own mother, tried to talk him out of his theatrical ambitions.
Sennett's studio did not survive the Great Depression ; the Sennett-Paramount partnership lasted only one year, and Sennett was forced into bankruptcy in November 1933.
In late 1914 Essanay succeeded in hiring Charlie Chaplin away from Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios, offering Chaplin a higher salary and his own production unit.
The film had several veterans of Mack Sennett's Keystone films, including Andy Clyde, Ben Turpin, and Hank Mann.
He first acted in Hollywood films in 1930, debuting in director Mack Sennett's The Chumps.
In 1925 Roach hired away Sennett's supervising director, F. Richard Jones.
The character of the Tramp was originally created by accident while Chaplin was working at Mack Sennett's Keystone Studio.
Chaplin, with his Little Tramp character, quickly became the most popular star in Keystone director Mack Sennett's company of players.
Movie producer Mack Sennett's response was typical: he hated being caught off-guard, but as the tribute progressed he relaxed, and by the end of the show he was quite pleased with the experience.
Mabel enters dressed as one of Sennett's famous bathing beauties and dances a youthful Charleston to " That's How Young I Feel " before reprising " Look What Happened to Mabel " backed by Mack, the cameraman, a stage manager and a few extras.
One exception is Richard Sennett's work on the importance of respect.
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According to David Robinson, unlike in more conventional slapstick comedies, the comic moments in Chaplin's films centred on the Tramp's attitude to the things happening to him: the humour did not come from the Tramp bumping into a tree but from his lifting of his hat to the tree in apology.
Sennett left in 1912 to set up the Keystone company, where he could give his enthusiasm for the slapstick comedy style derived from the earlier Pathé comedies like le Cheval emballé ( The Runaway Horse ) full rein.
Dialogue now took precedence over " slapstick " in Hollywood comedies: the fast-paced, witty banter of The Front Page ( 1931 ) or It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), the sexual double entrendres of Mae West ( She Done Him Wrong, 1933 ) or the often subversively anarchic nonsense talk of the Marx Brothers ( Duck Soup, 1933 ).
His greatest successes, however, were his comedies, and most of his films were either musicals, melodramas, slapstick comedies, or thrillers.
The Freak Brothers live a slapstick existence reminiscent of the best silent comedies.
Curiously, Lord's Columbia features are action melodramas rather than slapstick comedies.
Chaplin injected moments of drama and pathos unheard of in slapstick comedies ( the tramp is felled by a gunshot wound, and then disappointed in romance ).
It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play.
While indeed silent ( except for one word and numerous sound effects ), the film is a parody of the silent film genre, particularly the slapstick comedies of Charlie Chaplin, Mack Sennett, and Buster Keaton.
" See how slapstick comedies are made.
In the late 1940s, 1950s and 1960s these were mainly comedies ( romantic, slapstick, and / or musical ) and K. u. k.
In 1931 she was given her own series, teaming with ZaSu Pitts ( pronounced " Zay-soo ," also her character's name ) for slapstick comedies.
I have called it " Slapstick " because it is grotesque, situational poetry -- like the slapstick film comedies, especially those of Laurel and Hardy, of long ago.
In the wake of the success of his early ' glamour ' films Harrison Marks also produced a series of slapstick comedies also sold via the photographic shops and magazines that were the outlet for his adult work.
Also during this period, Linder applied for work at Pathé Frères in Vincennes at the suggestion of film director Louis Gasnier and began appearing in small " bit parts ", mostly in slapstick comedies.
Linder's influence on film comedy and particularly on slapstick films is that the genre shifted from the " knockabout " comedies made by such people as Mack Sennett and André Deed to a more subtle, refined and character driven medium that would later be dominated by Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and others.
Even as live-action comedy moved towards a focus on the verbal humor of Abbott and Costello and Groucho Marx, animated cartoons took up the entire range of slapstick gags, frenetic chase scenes, visual puns, and exaggerated facial expressions previously seen in silent comedies.
Techniques employed by silent comedy, however, continue to influence talkie comedies, mainly through silent comedy's development of the older art of slapstick and through artistic reference to the trademark gags of famous silent comedians.
He went on to successfully produce local actualities, slapstick comedies, early travelogues and industrial films ( a major client was Armour and Company ).
The phrase " τρέχει σάν τόν Βέγγο " ( English translation: " runs like Veggos ") has been adopted in to common usage in the Greek language since nobody has run more or faster than Veggos in his many slapstick comedies.
Brooklyn Place is a theater and shopping zone designed after 1940s Brooklyn, New York where slapstick comedies and silent movies are reminisced.
He is renowned for his slapstick comedies.
Welles planned to create a silent film in the tradition of the Mack Sennett slapstick comedies, in order to enhance the various chases, duels and comic conflicts of the Gillette play.
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