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Foundation date 1 january 1912
Keystone Studios was an early movie 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 (1880-1960) 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). The company filmed in and around Glendale and Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California for several years, and its films were distributed by the Mutual Film Corporation between 1912 and 1915.
The original main building, the first totally enclosed film stage and studio in history, is still standing. It is located at 1712 Glendale Blvd in Echo Park, Los Angeles.
Filmography of Keystone Studios (221 films)
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His Unconscious Conscience (1917)
, 10minutesDirected by Charles Avery
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Hugh Fay, Phyllis Haver, George Jeske, Jack Perrin
A Rough Knight (1916)
Directed by Edward Dillon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors DeWolf Hopper, Fay Tincher
My Valet (1915)
, 33minutesDirected by Mack Sennett
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Raymond Hitchcock, Mack Sennett, Mabel Normand, Fred Mace, Alice Davenport, Cecile Arnold
The Star Boarder (1914)
, 14minutesDirected by George Nichols
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Charlie Chaplin, Minta Durfee, Edgar Kennedy, Alice Davenport, Gordon Griffith, Harry McCoy
Chaplin is the favorite of his landlady, and the other boarders are jealous.
Twenty Minutes of Love (1914)
, 20minutesDirected by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Charlie Chaplin, Minta Durfee, Edgar Kennedy, Chester Conklin, Gordon Griffith, Josef Swickard
C'est le printemps et les amoureux convolent dans le parc. Charlot aperçoit un couple qui s'embrasse sur un banc public, et s'amuse à les embêter : il commence par les parodier en embrassant avec ardeur un arbre, puis en s'asseyant près d'eux. Très vite, Charlot se fait chasser.
, 14minutesDirected by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Charlie Chaplin, Fritz Schade, Cecile Arnold, Chester Conklin, Harry McCoy, Vivian Edwards
A painter turned tramp (Charlie Chaplin), devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy man, finds himself drunk and getting drunker by the minute with some sailors at a bar until he collapses. He keeps futilely trying to draw the woman's picture on the floor with a piece of chalk until he finally passes out cold (or perhaps dies, as in the poem) at the end of the film.
Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914)
, 7minutesDirected by Henry Lehrman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Charlie Chaplin, Henry Lehrman, Frank D. Williams, Gordon Griffith, Billy Jacobs
Made by Keystone Studios and directed by Henry Lehrman, the movie portrays Chaplin as a spectator at a "baby-cart race" in Venice, Los Angeles. The spectator keeps getting in the way of the camera and interferes with the race, causing great frustration to the public and participants. The film was shot during the Junior Vanderbilt Cup, an actual race with Chaplin and Lehrman improvising gags in front of real-life spectators.
The Rounders (1914)
, 16minutesDirected by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Charlie Chaplin, Roscoe Arbuckle, Phyllis Allen, Minta Durfee, Charley Chase, Al St. John
A drunk reveller (Chaplin) returns home to a scolding from his wife. Then his equally inebriated neighbor (Arbuckle) goes home to a cold reception from his wife. When the first couple hear the physical altercation across the hall (the second man starts strangling his wife after she hits him), the reveller's wife sends him to investigate. The two men flee together and end up in a cafe, where they also cause trouble. When their spouses track them down, they escape once again, this time to a leaky rowboat. Safely out of reach of their wives, they fall asleep, oblivious to the rising water into which they eventually disappear.
Mabel's Married Life (1914)
, 17minutesDirected by Mack Sennett, Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Mack Swain, Hank Mann, Charles Murray, Harry McCoy
Chaplin, in tramp attire, sits in the park with his wife, Mabel. While he is gone to a bar, a large man holding a tennis racquet moves in on his wife. Chaplin returns to find them laughing together. But despite kicking him and hitting him with his cane the man is undeterred in his wooing of his wife.
Mabel's Busy Day (1914)
, 16minutesDirected by Mack Sennett, Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Cooking films
Actors Charlie Chaplin, Chester Conklin, Mabel Normand, Slim Summerville, Billie Bennett, Harry McCoy
Mabel (Mabel Normand) tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment. Charlie (Charles Chaplin) finds them and gives them away to the hungry spectators at the track as Mabel frantically tries to find her lost box of hot dogs. Mabel finds out that Charlie has stolen them and sends the police after him. Chaos ensues.
Getting Acquainted (1914)
, 14minutesDirected by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Charlie Chaplin, Phyllis Allen, Mack Swain, Mabel Normand, Harry McCoy, Edgar Kennedy
Charlie and his wife are walking in the park when they encounter Ambrose and his wife where they become attracted to each other's wife and start chasing them around the park. The policeman is looking for a masher.
His New Profession (1914)
, 16minutesDirected by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Charlie Chaplin, Charley Chase, Harry McCoy, Fritz Schade, Jess Dandy, Roscoe Arbuckle
Un jeune homme, embauche Charlot pour s'occuper de son oncle handicapé afin de pouvoir passer du temps avec sa fiancée. Mais Charlot n'a pas d'argent et souhaite aller au bar. Il pose donc sur l'oncle un panneau « Aidez un paralysé » volé à un mendiant, chipe l'argent récolté et se rend au bar. De retour du bar, Charlot est encore plus négligeant avec l'oncle, et commence à flirter avec la fiancée du neveu.
Caught in a Cabaret (1914)
, 30minutesDirected by Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Harry McCoy, Chester Conklin, Edgar Kennedy, Minta Durfee
Chaplin plays a waiter who fakes being a Greek Ambassador to impress a girl. He then is invited to a garden party where he gets in trouble with the girl's jealous boyfriend. Mabel Normand wrote and directed comedies before Chaplin and mentored her young co-star.
The Property Man (1914)
, 31minutesDirected by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Charlie Chaplin, Phyllis Allen, Alice Davenport, Charles Bennett, Fritz Schade, Mack Sennett
Charlie is in charge of stage "props" and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets the star's dressing room.
His Prehistoric Past (1914)
, 20minutesDirected by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes La préhistoire
Actors Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Mack Swain, Fritz Schade, Al St. John, Cecile Arnold
Set in the stone age, King Low-Brow rules the land and a harem of wives. When Charlie arrives in this land (where every man has one thousand wives), he falls in love with the King's favorite wife. When the King falls over a cliff, he is presumed dead and Charlie crowns himself King. The King, however, is not dead and comes back and bashes Charlie over the head with a rock. It turns out it was a dream and a police man bashed Charlie over the head with his club because he was sleeping in the park.