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. The company shot in and around Glendale and Silver Lake for many years. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... A movie studio is a company which develops, equips and maintains a controlled environment for the making of a film. ... Jump to: navigation, search County Los Angeles County, California Area  - Total  - Water 79. ... 1912 was a leap year starting on Monday. ... Michael (or Micheal) Sinnott (January 17, 1880 - November 5, 1960), better known as Mack Sennett, was an innovator of slapstick comedy in film. ... Silver Lake is a Los Angeles neighborhood east of Hollywood. ...

The studio is perhaps best remembered now the era under Mack Sennet when he created the slapstick antics of the Keystone Kops and for the "Sennett Bathing Beauties." Charlie Chaplin got his start at Keystone, when Sennett hired him fresh from his vaudeville career to make silent films. 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. In 1915 Keystone Studios became an autonomous production unit of the Triangle Pictures Corporation with D. W. Griffith and Thomas Ince. In 1917 Sennett gave up the Keystone trademark and organized his own company. Slapstick is a type of comedy involving exaggerated physical violence. ... The Keystone Kops 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. ... Jump to: navigation, search Chaplin in his costume as The Tramp Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English actor, the most famous actor in early to mid Hollywood cinema, and also a notable director. ... Vaudeville was a style of multi-act theater which flourished in North America from the 1880s through the 1920s. ... A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ... Vaudeville was a style of multi-act theater which flourished in North America from the 1880s through the 1920s. ... Jump to: navigation, search David Llewelyn Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875–July 23, 1948) was an American film director (commonly known as D. W. Griffith) best known for his film The Birth of a Nation. ... Thomas Harper Ince (November 6, 1882–November 20, 1924) was an American film director. ...

The "Sennett Bathing Beauties"

Many other important actors also began their career at Keystone, including Harold Lloyd, Gloria Swanson, Raymond Griffith, Ford Sterling, Fatty Arbuckle, Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, Ben Turpin, Harry Langdon, and Chester Conklin. Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links MackSennetBathingBeauties. ... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links MackSennetBathingBeauties. ... Harold Clayton Lloyd (April 20, 1893–March 8, 1971) was an American actor. ... Jump to: navigation, search Gloria Swanson Gloria Swanson (March 27, 1897 – April 4, 1983) was an American actress. ... Raymond Griffith (January 23, 1895 - November 25, 1957) one of the great silent movie comedians. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion, because: empty page If you disagree with its speedy deletion, please explain why on its talk page or at Wikipedia:Speedy deletions. ... Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle (March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933) was an American silent film comedian. ... Marie Dressler (born November 9, 1868; died July 28, 1934) was a Canadian actress. ... Mabel Normand (November 10, 1892 - February 23, 1930) was a US film actress, who was a popular comedienne in silent films. ... Ben Turpin (c. ... Harry Langdon an American silent comedian who fared badly in sound films. ... Chester Conklin, 1916 Chester Cooper Conklin (January 11, 1886 - October 11, 1971) was an American comedian and actor. ...

Sennett, by then a major star, left the studio in 1917 to produce his own independent films (eventually distributed through Paramount). Keystone faded away after his departure, and was finally dissolved after bankruptcy in 1935. Jump to: navigation, search The Paramount Pictures logo used since 2002. ...

The Keystone lot

After the bankruptcy, the movie lot in Studio City was sold to Mascot Studios, then Monogram Studios, which eventually became Republic Pictures. The lot was taken over in 1963 by CBS Television (which filmed Gunsmoke and The Wild Wild West there), and from 1985 to 1992 was owned jointly by CBS and Mary Tyler Moore's MTM Enterprises, which produced numerous other successful TV shows. In 1992 CBS bought back MTM's share and the lot was renamed CBS Studio Center. It is still home to numerous television and feature film shoots (including American Gladiators from 1991-1997). It was itself used as the fictional film studio "Sunrise Studios" in the horror film Scream 3. Republic Pictures Corporation (aka Republic Entertainment) is an independent film, television, and video distribution company that was originally a movie production-distribution corporation with studio facilities, best known for its specialization in quality B pictures, westerns and movie serials. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Gunsmoke was a long-running old-time radio and television Western drama program set in Dodge City, Kansas during the settlement of the American West. ... The Wild Wild West Season 1 VHS The Wild Wild West was an American TV show that ran from 1965 to 1969. ... CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) is a major television network and radio broadcaster in the United States. ... Jump to: navigation, search Statue of Mary Tyler Moore in downtown Minneapolis Mary Tyler Moore (born on December 29, 1936) is an American actress and comedian, best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show, in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30ish single woman who worked as a news... MTM Enterprises is a production company established in 1969 by Mary Tyler Moore and her then-husband Grant Tinker to produce The Mary Tyler Moore Show for CBS. It was sold in 1990 to TVS and again in 1993 to Pat Robertsons International Family Entertainment. ... CBS Studio Center is a television and film studio located in Studio City, California (located in Los Angeles San Fernando Valley section). ... American Gladiators was a TV show which ran between 1989 and 1997. ... Jump to: navigation, search Scream 3 (2000) (theatrical name Scr3am) is the final installment in the successful Scream trilogy of satirical horror films. ...