"Silents Please" Mack Sennett's Silent Film Studio Aka the Fun Factory (1961)
1961 · Short film · 25 min
- Romance
- Documentary
Synopsis
This 1961 episode from the Series “Silents Please” looks at the work of Mack Sennett’s “Fun Factory”, an iconic slapstick comedy production studio that produced some of the most famous actors of the silent film era. The film shows scenes with comedians like Charlie Chaplin, Marie Dressler, and Mabel Normand, and Ben Turpin. It also covers footage of some of the iconic special effects that Sennett pioneered, such as a spinning background for chases scenes and different camera tricks to speed up cars and trams. 0:06 a car drives wildly down a road and crashes into a storefront, 0:16 Title “Silents Please”, 0:32 different scenes from Mack Sennett’s “Fun Factory”, 0:59 Mack Sennett sitting at a desk, 1:18 Some of Sennett’s early acting scenes as a Butler and in a classroom, 1:47 different scenes from Sennett’s first success “The Bang Ville Police”, 2:29 a smoky police vehicle chasing after some criminals but breaking down and exploding, 2:49 first scene from “The Keystone cops” with them chasing youngsters on a boat, 3:31 completely disorganized police officer antics shown with them falling into mud and running into each other, 4:00 scene from “Tilly’s Punctured Romance” with Marie Dressler shooting at Charlie Chaplin as he tries to escape, 4:58 the cops try to stop the shooter but end up driving into the ocean, 5:33 cops try to rescue Dressler from the water but fail miserably, 6:01 Charlie Chaplin walks into a restaurant and uses a man’s beard as a napkin, 6:57 Chaplin eats…
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- Running time
- 25 minutes
- Collection
- Ephemeral Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Punctured Romance
- Silents Please
- Mack Sennett
- Fun Factory
- Charlie Chaplin
- Marie Dressler
- Mabel Normand
- Ben Turpin
- The Bang Ville Police
- The Keystone
