The Keystone Cops in a typical pose. The desk officer using the telephone is Ford Sterling. The policeman directly behind Sterling (in extreme background, left) is Edgar Kennedy. The hefty policeman at extreme right is Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. The young constable with bulging eyes, fourth from right, is Arbuckle's nephew Al St. John. The casting of the Keystone police force changed from one film to the next; many of the individual members were per-diem actors who remain unidentifiable. The Keystone Cops was a series of silent film comedies featuring an incompetent group of policemen produced by Mack Sennett for his Keystone Film Company between 1912 and 1917. The idea came from Hank Mann, who also played police chief Tehiezel in the first film before being replaced by Ford Sterling. Their first film was Hoffmeyer's Legacy (1912) but their popularity came from the 1913 feature The Bangville Police starring Mabel Normand. However, as early as 1914 Sennett shifted the cops from starring roles to background ensemble, in support of comedians like Charlie Chaplin and Fatty Arbuckle. Image File history File links KeystoneKops. ...
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Mack Sennett (1880 - 1960) Mack Sennett (January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960) was an innovator of slapstick comedy in film. ...
The Keystone / Mack Sennett studios Keystone Studios was an early movie studio founded in Glendale, California in 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by Mack Sennett with backing from Adam Kessel and Charles O. Bauman, owners of the New York Motion Picture Company. ...
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Mack Sennett's Keystone film studio always used the spelling "Cops" whenever publicizing their films, never "Kops", as some more recent secondary sources have rendered the name. No contemporary citation of the "Kop" spelling has ever surfaced, whereas film historian Kalton C. Lahue and others have found many documents issued by the Keystone studio which retain the spelling "Cop". Universal Pictures changed the spelling to "Kops" in 1955 for the feature Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops. Universal Pictures is the main motion picture production/distribution arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal. ...
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Revivals
Mack Sennett continued to use the Cops intermittently through the 1920s. By the time sound movies arrived, the Keystone Cops were an anachronism, symbolic of dated, lowbrow humor. In 1935 director Ralph Staub staged a revival of the Sennett gang for his Warner Brothers short subject Keystone Hotel, featuring a magnificent re-creation of the Cops clutching at their hats, leaping in the air in surprise, running energetically in any direction, and taking extreme pratfalls. This footage is so well filmed that it has been used countless times in later productions purporting to use silent-era material. Warner Bros. ...
The Staub version of the Keystone Cops became a template for later re-creations. 20th Century Fox's 1939 feature Hollywood Cavalcade had Buster Keaton in a Keystone chase scene. Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955) included a lengthy chase scene, showcasing a hardy group of stuntmen dressed as Sennett's squad. Even Mel Brooks directed a Keystone car chase in his Silent Movie. Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation (known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) is one of the six major American film studios. ...
Buster Keaton (born Joseph Frank Keaton, October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American silent film comic actor and filmmaker. ...
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops is a 1955 film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. ...
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By the 1950s any surviving silent-movie comedian might be pressed into service as a Keystone Cop, regardless of whether he appeared with the troupe authentically. In the This Is Your Life TV tribute to Mack Sennett, several Sennett alumni ran on stage -- dressed as Keystone Cops. This Is Your Life was a television documentary series hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards. ...
Mack Sennett (1880 - 1960) Mack Sennett (January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960) was an innovator of slapstick comedy in film. ...
The Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Pirates of Penzance features a platoon of incompetent and cowardly policemen engaged by hero Frederic to arrest the pirates. Although the stage show dates from 1879 and the Keystone Cops appeared a quarter-century later, it is now customary for the policemen in the show to be portrayed in the style of the Keystone Cops. W. S. Gilbert Arthur Sullivan Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian era partnership of librettist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900). ...
Operetta (literally, little opera) is a performance art-form similar to opera, though it generally deals with less serious topics. ...
Poster announcing the copyright performance at the Bijou Theatre, Paignton The Pirates of Penzance, or The Slave of Duty, is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. ...
"Keystone Cops" in popular usage The term has since come to be used to criticize any group for its mistakes, particularly if the mistakes happened after a great deal of energy and activity, or if there was a lack of coordination among the members of the group. For example, the June 2004 election campaign of the Liberal Party of Canada was compared with "the Keystone Cops running around" by one of its parliamentary members, Carolyn Parrish. In criticizing the Department of Homeland Security's response to Hurricane Katrina, Senator Joseph Lieberman claimed that emergency workers under DHS chief Michael Chertoff "ran around like Keystone Cops, uncertain about what they were supposed to do or uncertain how to do it" [1] An example from the world of sports is the 2007 New York Yankees, whom baseball game announcers have described as resembling "The Keystone Cops" for their numerous fielding errors committed during big games. Another example is a statement by Peter Beattie, Premier of the Australian state of Queensland, on the counter-terrorism investigation into Gold Coast doctor Mohamed Haneef in July 2007. After the Australian Federal Police committed a series of blunders, the Premier likened their actions to those of the "keystone cops". The Canadian federal election, 2004 (more formally, the 38th general election), was held on June 28, 2004 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons. ...
The Liberal Party of Canada (French: ), colloquially known as the Grits (originally Clear Grits), is a Canadian federal political party. ...
Mark Critch (left), Carolyn Parrish (right) and a Bush doll, in a skit that led to her dismissal from the Liberal caucus. ...
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a Cabinet department of the federal government of the United States that is concerned with protecting the American homeland and the safety of American citizens. ...
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Joseph Isadore Lieberman (born February 24, 1942) is a Jewish-American Democratic politician and a current U.S. senator from Connecticut. ...
[[Category:Articles needing additional references from August 2007]] Michael Chertoff (born November 28, 1953) is the current United States Secretary of Homeland Security. ...
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Mohamed Haneef See Wikinews article: Australian police charge Indian doctor over failed UK bombings Mohamed Haneef (born 29 September 1979) is a 27-year old Indian physician who was accused of aiding terrorists, and left Australia upon cancellation of his visa amid great political controversy. ...
The Keystone Cops re-emerge every year in the town of Cedar Springs, Michigan during their Red Flannel Festival. Cedar Springs is a city located in Kent County, Michigan, United States, 20 minutes north of Michigans second largest city, Grand Rapids. ...
The Police Academy movies that began in 1984 are frequently considered a modern day version of the Keystone Kops. Police Academy is a long-running series of comedy films, the first six of which were made in the 1980s. ...
In the first season of The West Wing in the episode In Excelsis Deo, the White House Chief of Staff's character Leo McGarry refers to Sam Seaborn and Josh Lyman as the Keystone Cops. The West Wing is an American television serial drama created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast from 1999 to 2006. ...
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Video games In 1983, a video game called Keystone Kapers was released for the Atari 2600 and 5200. Playing as Keystone Cop Officer Kelly, your object is to stop would-be robber Hooligan Harry from escaping Southwick's Mall. The game, which became a hit, was produced by Activision. The Keystone Cops also appear in the computer game NetHack, usually when the player steals from one of the shops. They are more dangerous than their cinematic inspiration, however; they typically surround the player's character so escape is impossible, and then mercilessly beat the player with rubber hoses from all directions, while temporarily blinding the player with cream pie. Keystone Kapers was a 1983 game published by Activision for the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, and the ColecoVision. ...
The Atari 2600, released in October 1977, is the video game console credited with popularizing the use of microprocessor based hardware and cartridges containing game code, instead of having non-microprocessor dedicated hardware with all games built in. ...
The Atari 5200 SuperSystem, or simply Atari 5200, is a video game console that was introduced in 1982 by Atari as a replacement for the famous Atari 2600. ...
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Movies featuring the Keystone Cops Mabel Normand Mabel Normand (November 10, 1892 - February 23, 1930) was a US film actress, who was a popular comedienne in silent films. ...
Mabel Normand Mabel Normand (November 10, 1892 - February 23, 1930) was a US film actress, who was a popular comedienne in silent films. ...
Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle aka Fatty Arbuckle (March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933) was an American silent film comedian. ...
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Marie Dressler (born November 9, 1868; died July 28, 1934) was an Academy Award-winning Canadian actress. ...
Mabel Normand Mabel Normand (November 10, 1892 - February 23, 1930) was a US film actress, who was a popular comedienne in silent films. ...
For the Jamaican musician named Charlie Chaplin, see Charlie Chaplin (singer). ...
Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle aka Fatty Arbuckle (March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933) was an American silent film comedian. ...
Mabel Normand Mabel Normand (November 10, 1892 - February 23, 1930) was a US film actress, who was a popular comedienne in silent films. ...
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Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle aka Fatty Arbuckle (March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933) was an American silent film comedian. ...
Mabel Normand Mabel Normand (November 10, 1892 - February 23, 1930) was a US film actress, who was a popular comedienne in silent films. ...
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Trivia In an episode ("Syzygy") of the US Television series, The X-Files. A Keystone Cops movie is showing on all of the channels on Mulder and Scully's hotel room TV. It is also shown on every TV in the video game which the series inspired, The X-Files: The Game. Syzygy is the thirteenth episode of the third season of The X-Files. ...
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Further reading - Jeanine Basinger (1999), chapter on Keystone Cops (also covers Mabel Normand) in Silent Stars, (ISBN 0-8195-6451-6).
Mabel Normand Mabel Normand (November 10, 1892 - February 23, 1930) was a US film actress, who was a popular comedienne in silent films. ...
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