Keystone Studios was an early movie studio founded in Glendale, California in 1912 by Mack Sennett and Adam Kessel as the Keystone Pictures Studio. The company shot in and around Glendale and Silverlake for many years, but eventually opened their own motion picture lot in the San Fernando Valley in 1928. Sennett's activity in the area actually led to the naming of the town of Studio City, California.
The Keystone Kops was a series of silent film comedies featuring an incompetent group of policemen produced by Mack Sennett for his KeystoneFilmCompany between 1912 and 1917.
It should be noted that Mack Sennett'sKeystonefilm studio always used the spelling "Cops" (not "Kops") whenever publicizing their films: surviving press releases from the Keystone studio contain phrases such as "another 'Cop' comedy", invariably with the "Cop" spelling, never "Kops".
Although the stage show dates from 1879 and the Keystone Kops appeared a quarter-century later, it is now customary for the policemen in the show to be portrayed in the style of the Keystone Kops.
Keystone Studios was an early movie studio founded in Edendale, 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.
Charlie Chaplin at Keystone Studios is a 1993 compilation of some of the most notable films Chaplin made at Keystone, documenting his transition from vaudeville player to true comic film actor to director.
The lot was itself used as the fictional film studio "Sunrise Studios" in the horror film Scream 3.
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