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Sennett went on to produce more ambitious comedy short films and a few feature-length films. [10] Many of Sennett's films of the early 1920s were inherited by Warner Bros. [11] after Warner had merged with the original distributor, First National. Warner added music and commentary to several of these short subjects, and the new versions were ...
Roy Mack (December 14, 1889, New Brunswick, New Jersey - January 16, 1962, Los Angeles, California), born Leroy McClure, was an American director of film shorts, mostly comedy films, with 205 titles to his credit. [1] [2] Born and raised in New Brunswick, New Jersey, he attended New Brunswick High School. [3]
At It Again is a 1912 American short silent comedy film produced and directed by Mack Sennett. The film stars Fred Mace, Mack Sennett, Ford Sterling, Mabel Normand and Alice Davenport. It was distributed by the Mutual Film Corporation. The film was the first Keystone Film comedy that featured the two bumbling detectives.
Keystone Studios was an early film studio founded in Edendale, California (which is now a part of Echo Park) on July 4, 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by Mack Sennett with backing from actor-writer Adam Kessel (1866–1946) [1] and Charles O. Baumann (1874–1931), owners of the New York Motion Picture Company (founded 1909).
Mack Sennett continued to use the Keystone Cops intermittently through the 1920s, but their popularity had waned by the time that sound films arrived. In 1935, director Ralph Staub staged a revival of the Sennett gang for his Warner Brothers short subject Keystone Hotel, featuring a re-creation of the Kops clutching at their hats, leaping in ...
In 2013, the short film was featured as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences centennial celebration for one-reeler short films. The film was presented on a restored 1909 hand-cranked Powers Model 6 Camergraph Motion Picture Machine, created by Nicholas Power , and cranked by Library of Congress consultant Joe Rinaudo.
Slapstick films are comedy films using slapstick humor, a physical comedy that includes pratfalls, tripping, falling, practical jokes, and mistakes are highlighted over dialogue, plot and character development. [1] The physical comedy in these films contains a cartoonish style of violence that is predominantly harmless and goofy in tone. [1]
Hal Roach launched a brief series of slapstick comedies with "The Taxi Boys" (Clyde Cook, Billy Gilbert, Billy Bevan, and other expressive comedians), and these films required outlandish visual gags and a fleet of crazy cars. Del Lord was the ideal man to direct, and he worked on these comedies exclusively for a year.