Background
Mack Sennett was born Michael Sinnott on January 17, 1884, in Quebec, Canada; the son of John Sinnott and Catherine Foy.
(A One Night Stand (1915, Silent, B&W): The backstage buff...)
A One Night Stand (1915, Silent, B&W): The backstage buffoonery of two stagehands nearly ruins the evening's performance. Starring Chester Conklin, Mae Busch. Cursed by His Beauty (1914, Silent, B&W): An artist searching for a perfect model finds one in the man who delivers her ice. Trouble ensues when her spouse mistakes the artistic endeavor for a wild affair. Starring Charlie Murray, Alice Davenport, Slim Summerville, Charley Chase. Fatty's Tintype Tangle (1914, Silent, B&W): A photographer takes a picture of Fatty romancing a married woman, sending her husband into a rage. The film is on the Library of Congress' National Film Registry for culturally, historically, or aesthetically important works. Starring Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Edgar Kennedy, Louise Fazenda. The Plumber (1914, Silent, B&W): An inebriated plumber tries to fix the leaky pipe in a wealthy couple's home. Starring Charles Murray, Josef Swickard. The Star Boarder (1914, Silent, B&W): Charlie Chaplin is his landlady's favorite boarder, but when her mischievous son photographs Charlie in a compromising pose, he may find himself out on the street. Starring Charlie Chaplin, Minta Durfee.
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The Mack Sennett Collection, Vol. One features 50 extraordinary slapstick comedy movies starring classic film icons, presented on a 3-disc Blu-ray set. The Keystone Film Company, under the guidance of pioneering producer and director Mack Sennett, was the birthplace of classic American slapstick comedy. This historic studio was at one time home to a staggering number of silent screen luminaries including Mabel Normand, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Harold Lloyd, Gloria Swanson, Wallace Beery, Harry Langdon, Marie Dressler, Ben Turpin, The Keystone Cops, Ford Sterling, Charley Chase, Al St. John, Mack Swain, Edgar Kennedy, Billy Bevan, Louise Fazenda, Eddie Quillan, and countless others. Even Hollywood icon Charlie Chaplin, still the world's most recognized actor, introduced his beloved Tramp character under the auspices of Keystone. Later, under the Mack Sennett Comedies banner, Sennett went on to produce a new generation of sound comedies, some in early color, featuring the likes of W.C. Fields, Bing Crosby, Lloyd Hamilton, Andy Clyde, and more. Now, for the first time, thanks to Flicker Alley, CineMuseum, and Keystone Films, 50 of the best surviving Sennett comedies have been gathered from around the world, fully restored, and digitally re-mastered in HD for Blu-ray home video. These new editions have been painstakingly reconstructed by CineMuseum and Keystone Films using original 35mm nitrate, archival negatives, preservation materials, and sometimes the lone known surviving film print, from the collections of the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Blackhawk Films®, Lobster Films, the Richard M. Roberts Collection, Gierucki Studios, and dozens of privately held archives. Content Highlights: • KEYSTONE COPS - Make an appearance in several of the films in The Mack Sennett Collection, Vol. One: Shot in the Excitement, The Noise of Bombs, and Bangville Police (1913), regarded as the seminal Keystone Cop film. Also included is A Thief Catcher (1914). Previously thought lost, this short was discovered by producer Paul E. Gierucki in 2010. It features a rare appearance of Charlie Chaplin as a Keystone Cop. • THE WATER NYMPH (1912) - Starring Mabel Normand, The Water Nymph served as the inspiration for the famous Sennett Bathing Beauties. • FATTY AND MABEL ADRIFT (1916) - A groundbreaking comedy from the most famous comedy team in the world at that time, Mabel Normand and Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle. Struck from an original tinted nitrate film print. • A MAJOR RESTORATION OF RECREATION (1914) - An early Charlie Chaplin comedy, featuring new footage and improved source materials of this long thought lost comedy. Bonus Features: • FULL COLOR BOOKLET - Filled with rare images, production information, restoration notes, and Keystone Sennett player biographies. • NEW MUSIC SCORES - From silent film accompanists Philip Carli, Ben Model, Dennis Scott, Andrew Simpson, and Donald Sosin. • COMMENTARY TRACKS - From noted comedy historians Brent Walker, Steve Massa, Richard M. Roberts, Stan Taffel, Sam Gill, Paul Gierucki, and others. • MEMORABILIA GALLERIES - Featuring vintage lobby cards, glass slides, posters, scripts, studio photographs, The Mack Sennett Story by film historian Joe Adamson, and rare audio recordings. • LONG UNSEEN RARITIES - Newsreels, trailers, outtakes, Sennett-Color films, the dedication of the Mabel Normand soundstage, This Is Your Life Mack Sennett, and much more!
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(In 1912, producer Mack Sennett, 'the father of American s...)
In 1912, producer Mack Sennett, 'the father of American slapstick comedy,' set up his Keystone Studios in Edendale, California. There he created the classic comedy of the silent era, making stars of Mabel Normand, Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, Ford Sterling, The Keystone Cops, W.C. Fields and many others. Sennett's mastery of comic timing, improvisation and effective editing contributed to the enormous success of his films. In 1914 he produced Tillie's Punctured Romance, America's first feature-length comedy. The main building on the Edendale lot was the first fully-nclosed film stage in history. Sennett would win an Academy Award in 1932 for his short subject Wrestling Swordfish, and in 1937 was awarded a second Oscar 'for his lasting contribution to the comedy technique of the screen.' The amazingly prolific producer had over 1,000 films to his credit when he retired. • A VERSATILE VILLAIN (1915) • BATH TUB PERILS (1916) • CIRCUS TODAY (1926) • FATTY'S CHANCE ACQUAINTANCE (1915) • HIS NAUGHTY THOUGHT (1917) • LOVE IN A POLICE STATION (1927) • MISS FATTY'S SEASIDE LOVERS (1915) • OFF HIS TROLLEY (1924) • SATURDAY AFTERNOON (1926)
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See the early work of film great Mack Sennett in these ten shorts he directed while working with Biograph films. Includes: 1. The Manicure Lady (1911), 2. The Villain Foiled (1911), 3. The Baron (1911), 4. A Spanish Dilemma (1912), 5. The Engagement Ring (1912), 6. Hot Stuff (1912), 7. Oh, Those Eyes! (1912), 8. Help! Help! (1912), 9. The Brave Hunter (1912), 10. The Fickle Spaniard (1912)
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Mack Sennett was born Michael Sinnott on January 17, 1884, in Quebec, Canada; the son of John Sinnott and Catherine Foy.
Sennett emigrated to New York at the beginning of the 20th century to act in films by D. W. Griffith. Not very successful, Sennett turned to movie direction, and his first two efforts, Comrade (1911) and One-round O'Brien (1912), were so popular that sequels were immediately demanded. Assured of financial backing, he formed his own organization, the Keystone Company, and moved to Hollywood, California. During the first year Sennett produced 140 "Keystone Comedies, " the most famous of which were Uncle Tom without the Cabin and Salome vs. Shenandoah. Unable to direct every comedy personally, Sennett supplied himself with a talented crew of gag writers, comedians, cameramen, and stunt men. At the completion of each film, he would attend the final screening and perfect the structure and timing through careful editing. All of these films were made so that, in projection, the action was faster than life. The Sennett films defied logic and gravity in their epic chases and wild pie-throwing contests. In a Sennett comedy it was not unusual for a bandit to rob a bank with a vacuum cleaner or for a flood to carry a man out of his house in a bathtub. The Sennett Bathing Beauties, which featured such curvaceous creatures as Louise Fazenda and Gloria Swanson, added a touch of sexual delight to the then puritanical American film. Sennett's comedies, when they are at their best, are a combination of impudent satire, vulgar burlesque, and exhilarated madness.
The tragedy of Sennett's career was the arrival of sound in movies in the late 1920's; he was unable and unwilling to adjust to its demands. In 1928 Sennett permanently closed his studio.
He died on November 6, 1960, in Woodland Hills, California.
(In 1912, producer Mack Sennett, 'the father of American s...)
(A One Night Stand (1915, Silent, B&W): The backstage buff...)
(See the early work of film great Mack Sennett in these te...)
(The Mack Sennett Collection, Vol. One features 50 extraor...)
Quotations: "The round, fat girls in nothing much doing their bumps and grinds, the German-dialect comedians, and especially the cops and tramps with their bed-slats and ladders appealed to me as being funny people. Their approach to life was earthy and understandable. They made fun of themselves and of the human race. They reduced convention, dogma, stuffed shirts . .. to nonsense, and then blossomed into pandemonium. .. . I especially enjoyed the reduction of authority to absurdity, the notion that sex could be funny, and the bold insults that were hurled at pretension. " (on the Italian folk form commedia dell'arte)