TV Guide: Mack Sennett

Video: Ghost Parade (1931)

Amazon Video on Demand — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

This feature was produced by Mack Sennett during the height of his film-making career and featured legendary silent screen comedians Harry Gribbon and Andy Clyde.

Video: Ghost Parade (1931)

Amazon Video on Demand — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

This feature was produced by Mack Sennett during the height of his film-making career and featured legendary silent screen comedians Harry Gribbon and Andy Clyde.

Video: Harold Lloyd on Slapstick Comedy

History — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Harold Lloyd, a great innovator of slapstick comedy in film, compares his comedy to the comedy of today. He was honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his contributions to movie comedy.

Video: Silent Film Director Recalls W.C. Fields

History — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Interview: Mack Sennett on W.C. Fields - In this audio Mack talks about W.C. Fields as the greatest comedian of all times. He says W.C.F was the greatest comedian he ever saw and who ever lived. He shares his memories of them playing golf and more.

Video: Sennett on His Humble Beginnings

History — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Canadian-born director Mack Sennett, the creator of the Keystone Kops, is regarded as the father of American slapstick comedy. Originally a performer in vaudeville and theater, he studied silent-film direction under the tutelage of D. W. Griffith.

Video: Tillie's Punctured Romance

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

One of the funniest and most popular films of the silent era. Charlie Chaplin, Marie Dressler and Mabel Norman star in Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios comedy "Tillie's Punctured Romance" (72 min.), featuring all the frenzied action and burlesque style humor that made Sennett Hollywood's first great comic director, and Chaplin its greatest star. Also included is another of Keystone's best comedies, "Mabel's Married Life" (14 min.), starring Chaplin and Norman.

Video: Slapstick Encyclopedia - Tons of Fun: The Anarchic Fringe

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Highlighting the Golden Age of screen comedy as it has never been presented before, "Slapstick Encyclopedia" collects more than fifty silent short comedies with new musical soundtracks.Laurel and Hardy, Fatty Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Mack Sennett, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Harry Langdon, Will Rogers, Ben Turpin and more--from the early innovators, who redesigned the routines of vaudeville with narrative form, to the celebrated masters whose inspired improvisations helped establish the world dominance of American film, "Slapstick Encyclopedia" is your laugh-filled tour of this eternally appealing art. Includes: In the Beginning: Film Comedy Pioneers; Keystone Tonight!: Mack Sennett Comedies; Sennett in the Twenties; Funny Girls: Genders and Their Benders; Keaton, Arbuckle and St. John; Hal Roach's All-Star Comedians; Hal Roach: The Lot of Fun; Chaplin and the Music Hall Tradition; The Race Is On; Tons of Fun: The Anarchic Fringe.

Video: Slapstick Encyclopedia - Keaton, Arbuckle and St. John

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Video: Tillie's Punctured Romance

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Video: The Early Chaplin

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

In 1913, Karno's company was invited by Mack Sennett to join the Keystone Film Company. Using hilarious footage from the early Chaplin movies, this powerful documentary follows the early career of one of the world's greatest ever comic geniuses.

Video: Slapstick Encyclopedia - Sennett in the Twenties

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Video: His Bitter Pill

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Mack Sennett's famous western parody "His Bitter Pill" (1916, 20 min.), is done in the inimitable Keystone style and viciously lampoons the noble cowboy.

Video: Slapstick Encyclopedia - Hal Roach's All-Star Comedies