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Keystone Studios was an early film studio founded in Edendale, California (which is now a part of Echo Park) on July 4, 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by Mack Sennett with backing from actor-writer Adam Kessel (1866–1946) and Charles O. Baumann (1874–1931), owners of the New York Motion Picture Company (founded 1909).
Mack Sennett (born January 17, 1880, Richmond, Quebec, Canada—died November 5, 1960, Hollywood, California, U.S.) was the creator of the Keystone Kops and the father of American slapstick comedy in motion pictures.
Keystone studios. Sennett possessed an intuitive, almost uncanny understanding of film comedy. He was the creative force behind the Keystone Cops (a madcap mockery of the police force), the Sennett Bathing Beauties, and custard-pie fights in motion pictures.
Learn about Mack Sennett, the Canadian-born American director and actor who pioneered slapstick comedy in film and founded Keystone Studios in 1912. Discover his early life, career, achievements, and legacy in the silent era of cinema.
Keystone Studios. The Mack Sennett Keystone Studios in 1915. With financial backing from Adam Kessel and Charles O. Bauman of the New York Motion Picture Company, Sennett founded Keystone Studios in Edendale, California – now a part of Echo Park – in 1912.
…Mack Sennett, who, at his Keystone Studios, produced countless one- and two-reel shorts and features ( Tillie’s Punctured Romance, 1914; The Surf Girl, 1916; Teddy at the Throttle, 1917) whose narrative logic was subordinated to fantastic, purely visual humour.
Keystone Studios was an early film studio founded in Edendale, California on July 4, 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by Mack Sennett with backing from actor-writer Adam Kessel (1866–1946) and Charles O. Baumann (1874–1931), owners of the New York Motion Picture Company.
