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• One too many (1916)
• The wrong Mr. Fox (1917)
• Mr. Flip (1909)
• Alkali Ike's auto (1911)
• Mabel's dramatic debut (1913)
• Fox-trot finesse (1915)
• A cure for pokeritis (1912)
• Be my wife [abridged] (1921)
• A natural-born gambler (1916).

A survey of once important, now forgotten but still funny vaudevillians, stage actors and novelty acts that gravitated to the film world during the first fifteen years of the century. Their work in front of the camera inspired the first wave of film comedy.

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• 1. The curtain pole (1909) / American Biograph ; director, D.W. Griffith, author, Mack Sennett ; cast: Mack Sennett, Harry Solter, Florence Lawrence (10:02). The manicure lady (1911) / American Biograph ; director, Mack Sennett ; author, Edwin August ; cast: Mack Sennett, Vivian Prescott, Eddie Dillon, Kate Bruce (11:22). A dash through the clouds (1912) / American Biograph ; director, Mack Sennett ; author, Dell Henderson ; cast: Mabel Normand, Fred Mace, Philip Parmalee (10:16 min.). The water nymph (1912) / Keystone ; director, Mack Sennett ; cast: Mabel Normand; Mack Sennett, Ford Sterling (8:20). A grocery clerk's romance (1912) / Keystone ; director, Mack Sennett ; cast: Ford Sterling, James C. Morton (7:38). On his wedding day (1913) / Keystone ; director, Mack Sennett ; cast: Ford Sterling, Dot Farley, Nick Cogley, Mabel Normand (6:16). Bangville Police (1913) / Keystone ; director, Henry "Pathe" Lehrman ; cast: Fred Mace, Mabel Normand, Nick Cogley, Dot Farley (6:27). A fishy affair (1913) / Keystone ; director, Mack Sennett ; cast, Ford Sterling, Laura Oakley, Nick Cogley, Dot Farley (7:10). The speed kings - Earl Cooper and Teddy Tetzlaff (1913) / director, Wilfred Lucas ; cast: Mabel Normand, Ford Sterling, Earl Cooper, Teddy Tezlaff, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Barney Oldfield (8:33). A thief catcher (1914) / Keystone ; director, Ford Sterling ; cast: Ford Sterling, Mack Swain, Edgar Kennedy, Charlie Chaplin (8:00). The great toe mystery (1914) / Keystone ; cast: Charles Parrott (aka Charley Chase), Alice Howell (10:51). Recreation (1914) / Keystone; director, Charles Chaplin ; cast: Charlie Chaplin, Peggy Page, Edwin Frazee (5:24). Shot in the excitement (1914) / Keystone ; cast: Alice Howell, Al St. John, Rube Miller, Josef Swickard (11:49). The noise of bombs (1914) / cast: Charlie Murray, Edgar Kennedy, Lucille Ward, Josef Swickard, Charles Parrott (11:33). Ambrose's first falsehood (1914) / Keystone ; director, F. Richard Jones ; cast: Mack Swain, Minta Durfee, Edgar Kennedy, Charles Parrott (11:14). A bird's a bird (1915) / Keystone; cast: Chester Conklin, Minta Durfee, Alice Davenport (12:40). Gussle's day of rest (1915) / Keystone ; director, F. Richard Jones ; cast: Syd Chaplin, Slim Summerville, Phyllis Allen (21:47). Do-re-mi-boom! (1915) / Keystone ; director, Walter Wright ; cast: Chester Conklin, Charles Arling, Harry Booker, Fred Fishback (11:40). A lover's lost control (1915) / Keystone ; director, Syd Chaplin and Charles Avery ; cast: Syd Chaplin, Phyllis Allen (22:20). A submarine pirate (1915) / Triangle Keystone ; director (Charles Avery and Syd Chaplin); cast: Syd Chaplin, Phyllis Allen, Wesley Ruggles, Louise Fazenda (24:23). Fatty and Mabel adrift (1916) / Triangle Keystone; director, Roscoe Arbuckle ; cast: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, Al St. John, Luke (30:38). His bitter pill (1916) / Triangle Keystone ; director, Fred Fishback; cast: Mack Swain, Louella Maxam, Edgar Kennedy (19:35). Madcap Ambrose (1916) / Triangle Keystone ; director, Fred Fishback; cast: Mack Swain, Polly Moran, Edgar Kennedy (21:44). Teddy at the throttle (1915) / Keystone Triangle ; director, Clarence Badger ; cast: Bobby Vernon, Gloria Swanson, Wallace Beery, Teddy (26:36). Bonus features: The water nymph and bathing beauties (outtakes and rushes, 9:01); The Mack Sennett Studio (1:03); The Crossroads of New York [trailer] (1:22); The Sennett Story by Joe Adamson.

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• 2. Her torpedoed love (1917) / Triangle Keystone ; director, Frank C. Griffin ; cast: Louise Fazenda, Ford Sterling (21:08). A clever dummy (1917) / Triangle Keystone ; director, Herman C. Raymaker ; cast: Ben Turpin, Chester Conklin, Wallace Beery (19:23). Hearts and flowers (1919) / Mack Sennett Comedies ; director, Eddie Cline ; cast: Louise Fazenda, Ford Sterling, Phyllis Haver (21:18). Down on the farm (1920) / Mack Sennett Comedies / director, Erle C. Kenton and Ray Grey; cast: Louise Fazenda, Bert Roach, James Finlayson; Harry Gribbon, Marie Prevost, Ben Turpin, Teddy, Pepper (52:02). Don't weaken (1920) / Mack Sennett Comedies ; director, Mal St. Clair ; cast: Charlie Murray, Ford Sterlng, James Finlayson (21:27). Gymnasium Jim (1922) / Mack Sennett Comedies ; director, Roy Del Ruth; cast: Billy Bevan, Mildred June; Kewpie Morgan (19:19). The Extra girl (1923) / Mack Sennet Comedies ; director: F. Richard Jones ; cast: Mabel Normand, Ralph Graves, George O. Nichols; Vernon Dent, Harry Gribbon (1:12:44). The dare-devil (1923) / Mack Sennett Comedies ; director, Del Lord ; cast: Ben Turpin, Harry Gribbon, Kewpie Morgan, Madeline Hurlock (19:56). Black Oxfords (1924) / Mack Sennett Comedies ; director, Del Lord ; cast: Sid Smith, Vernon Dent, Marceline Day (19:32). Galloping Bungalows (1924) / Mack Sennett Comedies ; director, Del Lord; cast: Billy Bevan, Sid Smith, Natalie Kingston (19:18). His marriage wow (1925) / Mack Sennett Comedies ; director, Harry Edwards; cast: Harry Langdon, Natalie Kingston, Vernon Dent. Bonus features: Mack Sennett on the air (Textaco Star Theatre, 1939, 30:00, Lawrence Welk Show 1949, 3:00), Meet the stars: Stars past and present (dedication of the Mabel Normand soundstage, 1941, 6:39), Erskine Johnson's Hollywood reel (1950, 2:57); Mack Sennett's 70th birthday party (1950, 5:18).

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• 3. Super-hooper-dyne lizzies (1925) / Mack Sennett Comedies ; director, Del Lord ; cast: Billy Bevan, Andy Clyde (17:47). A rainy knight (1925) / Mack Sennett Comedies ; director, Lloyd Bacon ; cast: Raymond McKee, Ruth Taylor (19:55). Saturday afternoon (1926) / Mack Sennett Comedies ; director, Harry Edwards ; cast: Harry Langdon, Ruth Hiatt, Vernon Dent (27:00). A sea dog's tale (1926) / Mack Sennett Comedies ; director, Del Lord ; cast: Billy Bevan, Madeline Hurlock, Andy Clyde, Vernon Dent (11:15). Hoboken to Hollywood (1926) / Mack Sennett Comedies ; director, Del Lord ; cast: Billy Bevan, Vernon Dent, Thelma Hill (20:22). Ice cold cocos (1926) / Mack Sennett Comedies ; director, Del Lord ; cast: Billy Bevan, Andy Clyde, Madeline Hurlock, Kewpie Morgan, Louise Carver (18:34). Broke in China (1927) / Mack Sennett Comedies ; director, Eddie Cline ; cast: Ben Turpin, Louise Carver, Alice Belcher, Ruth Taylor, Andy Clyde (20:21). The pride of Pikeville (1927) / Mack Sennett Comedies ; director, Alf Goulding ; cast: Ben Turpin, Thelma Hill, Ruth Taylor, Andy Clyde, Vernon Dent (20:21). Fiddlesticks (1927) / Mack Sennett Comedies ; director, Harry Edwards ; cast: Harry Langdon, Vernon Dent, Tiny Ward (20:46). Run, girl, run (1928) / Mack Sennett Comedies ; director, Alf Goulding ; cast: Daphne Pollard, Carole Lombard, Lionel Belmore (19:53, color sequences). Taxi for two (1928) / Mack Sennett Comedies ; director, Del Lord ; cast: Jack Cooper, Virginia Vance, Otto Fries, Andy Clyde (16:47). The bluffer (1930) / a Mack Sennett Brevity ; director, Eddie Cline ; cast: Andy Clyde, Patsy O'Leary (11:06, color) ; The Dentist (1932) / a Mack Sennett Star Comedy ; director, Leslie Pearce ; cast: W.C. Fields, Marjorie "Babe" Kane, Elise Cavanna, Bud Jamison, Dorothy Granger (21:47). Don't play bridge with your wife (1933) / a Mack Sennett Star Comedy ; director, Leslie Pearce ; cast: Nora Lane, Cornelius Keefe, Grady Sutton, Marjorie Bebe, Bud Jamison (17:57). The fatal glass of beer (1933) / a Mack Sennett Star Comedy ; director, Clyde Bruckman ; cast: W.C. Fields, Rosemary Theby, George Chandler, Rychard Cramer (18:56). Bonus features: This is your life: Mack Sennett (1958, 28:32) ; People in the news - Keystone Cops reunion (1962, 1:09)

"The Keystone Film Company, under the guidance of pioneering producer and director Mack Sennett, was the birthplace of classic American slapstick comedy. This historic studio was at one time home to nearly every major silent screen comedian! Now, for the first time, thanks to FlickerAlley, CineMuseum, and Keystone FIlms, 50 of the best surviving Sennett comedies have been gathered from around the world to be fully restored and digitally remastered in HD. These new editions have been painstakingly reconstructed by CineMuseum, LLC using original 35mm nitrate, archival negatives, preservation materials, and sometimes the lone known surviving film print, from the collections of the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Blackhawk FIlms, Lobster Films, the Richard M. Roberts Collection, Gierucki Studios and dozens of privately held archives."--Container.

• Mr. Jones at the ball (1908) / Biograph ; directed by D.W. Griffith ; starring John R. Cumpson, Florence Lawrence, Mack Sennett, George Gebhardt
• Mr. Jones has a card party (1909) / Biograph ; directed by D. W. Griffith ; starring John R. Cumpson, Florence Lawrence, Linda Arvidson, Robert Harron, Mack Sennett, Arthur V. Johnson
• Bunny's honeymoon (1913) / directed by Wilfred North ; starring John Bunny, Wally Van, Dorothy Kelly
• Miss Stickie-Moufie-Kiss (1915) / Vitagraph ; directed by Sidney Drew ; starring Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Drew, E.M. Favor
• Sweedie the landress (1914) / Essanay ; directed by Wallace Beery ; starring Wallace Beery, Robert Bolder, Leo White, Ben Turpin
• Versus sledge hammers (1915) / Esssanay ; directed by Roy Clements ; starring Victor Potel, Margaret Joslin, Ben Turpin, Harry Todd
• Gentlemen of nerve (1914) / Keystone ; directed by Charles Chaplin ; starring Charlie Chaplin, Mack Swain, Mabel Normand
• The phony cannibal (1915) / Kalem ; directed by Charles E. Ward ; starring Lloyd Hamilton, Bud Duncan; Charles Inslee, Marin Sais ; Star boarders (1916) / Kalem ; starring Lloyd Hamilton, Bud Duncan
• Bonus: How motion pictures are made (excerpts from several short comedies).

Nine nickelodeon-era silent short comedies. In Mr. Jones at the ball, Mr. Jones loses his pants. In Mr. Jones has a card party, Mr. Jones gets drunk and his friends put a dress on him. In Bunny's Honeymoon, Bunny tries tries to scare a friend into giving up alcohol. In Miss Stickie-Moufie-Kiss, a man returns from war to marry his fiance, only to find that she has developed the habit of talking in excruciating baby talk. In Sweedie the Laundress, Sweedie (played by Wallace Beery) fools her employer into thinking she has committed suicide. In Versus sledge hammers, a blacksmith and a count vie for the hand of the alluring Sophie. Gentlemen of Nerve features the Keystone crew at an automobile race. The Phony Cannibal and Star boarders features the politically-incorrect comedy of Ham and Bud. In the former, Ham thinks he's killed his landlady, so he pretends to be an explorer accompanied by a cannibal. In the latter, they steal their landlady's furniture and sell it.

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• 1: v. 1, In the beginning: One too many. The wrong Mr. Fox. Mr. Flip. Alkali Ike's auto. Fox trot finesse. A cure for pokeritis. Be my wife. A natural born gambler
• v. 2, Keystone tonight: Mabel's dramatic career. Barney Oldfield's race for a life. The rounders. A muddy romance. A movie star. Teddy at the throttle.

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• 2: v. 3, Sennett in the twenties: Saturday afternoon. Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies. Wandering Willies. Circus today. His marriage wow. All night long
• v. 4, Funny girls: The detectress. One wet night. Know thy wife. Rowdy Ann. Hearts and flowers.

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• 3: v. 5, Keaton, Arbuckle and St. John: Fatty and Mabel adrift. Oh, Doctor! The garage. The boat. The iron mule
• v. 6, Hal Roach's all-star comedians: Oranges and lemons. Get out and get under. Mighty like a moose. Big moments from little pictures. Haunted spooks.

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• 4: v. 7, Hal Roach: Laurel and Hardy Lafftoons. Dogs of war. Fluttering hearts. It's a gift
• v. 8, Chaplin and the music hall tradition: A night in the show. A rare Chaplin snippet. The rink. Live wires and love sparks. He's in again. Pig-eyed. Only me.

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• 5: v. 9, The race is on: Water wagons. Outbound. Chasing choo-choos. Danger ahead
• v. 10, Tons of fun: Yukon Jake. Three of a kind. Dry and thirsty. Family life. Now you tell one. The grocery clerk.