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Mack Sennett

is the director who gave Charlie Chaplin his start, in 1913, in one of his famous "Keystone Cops" comedies. Mack Sennett's comedies were so popular, and rightly so, as they were the very first slapstick comedies put to film. He got his start performing in Burlesque shows back in the early 1900s, then moved on to work in motion pictures, which was the cutting edge medium of the era. He worked with legendary director D.W. Griffith as a scriptwriter, and actor before starting his own studio: Keystone, from which the famous Cops got their name.

Slapstick Encyclopedia, V. 2: Keystone Tonight!: The Mack Sennett Comedies VHS

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