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Keystone Studios was an early film studio founded in 1912 by Mack Sennett in Edendale, California. It was known for its slapstick comedies, such as the Keystone Cops and the Sennett Bathing Beauties, and for launching the careers of Charlie Chaplin and other stars.
Mack Sennett (1880-1960) was a filmmaker who founded Keystone Studios in 1912 and created slapstick comedies with stars like Chaplin, Lloyd, and Arbuckle. He was known as the "King of Comedy" and received an honorary Academy Award in 1938.
Learn how Charlie Chaplin became a film comedy star at the Keystone Film Company, where he created his iconic character, the Tramp. Discover the history, style, and influence of Keystone comedy and its rivalry with Pathé Frères.
Mack Sennett was a Canadian-American director and producer who created the Keystone Kops and pioneered American slapstick comedy in silent films. He trained many famous comedians and comediennes, such as Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields, and Mabel Normand.
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The Keystone Cops (often spelled " Keystone Kops ") are fictional, humorously incompetent policemen featured in silent film slapstick comedies produced by Mack Sennett for his Keystone Film Company between 1912 and 1917.
Learn about the history and logo of Keystone Studios, a film studio founded by Mack Sennett in 1912 and later acquired by Triangle Film Corporation. See examples of films with the logo and its variants.
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Named for Sennett’s Keystone Studios, the Kops were a basic corps of seven actors, with others moving in and out of the group. The first Keystone comedy with a cop force was At It Again (1912), in which they follow and arrest the wrong person.
