Editing Keystone Studios (section)

==Production==
[[File:MackSennetBathingBeauties.JPG|thumb|{{center|The "Sennett Bathing Beauties"}}]]

The studio is especially remembered for its [[silent film]] era under [[Mack Sennett]], the Canadian-American film actor, director, and producer, who became known as the 'King of Comedy'.  With financial backing from Adam Kessel and Charles O. Bauman of the [[New York Motion Picture Company]], Sennett founded Keystone Studios in [[Edendale, Los Angeles, California|Edendale, California]] &ndash; now a part of [[Echo Park, California|Echo Park]] &ndash; in 1912. The original main building which was the first totally enclosed film stage and studio ever constructed, is still there today. Known as Sennett's ''Fun Factory'',<ref>{{cite book |vauthors=Walker, Brent E |title=Mack Sennett's fun factory: a history and filmography of his studio and his Keystone and Mack Sennett comedies, with biographies of players and personnel |date=2010 |publisher=McFarland & Co |location=Jefferson, N.C. |isbn=978-0786457076 |page=7}}</ref> it was here that he created the [[slapstick]] antics of the [[Keystone Cops]] (from 1912) and the [[Sennett Bathing Beauties]] (beginning in 1915). Keystone comedies were noted for their hair-raising car chases and [[custard pie]] warfare, especially in the ''Keystone Cops'' series. [[Charlie Chaplin]] got his start in films at Keystone when Sennett hired him in 1914, fresh from his [[vaudeville]] career, to make [[silent film]]s, in which he rapidly became a star performer and [[film director]], participating in thirty-five films within the single year he worked there.<ref name=Harness2008>{{cite book |vauthors=Harness, Kyp |title=The art of Charlie Chaplin: a film-by-film analysis |date=2008 |publisher=McFarland & Co |location=Jefferson, N.C. |isbn=978-0786431939 |pages=9–38 |chapter=Keystone}}</ref> Other actors who worked at Keystone toward the beginning of their film careers include [[Marie Dressler]], [[Harold Lloyd]], [[Mabel Normand]], [[Roscoe Arbuckle]], [[Gloria Swanson]], [[Louise Fazenda]], [[Raymond Griffith]], [[Ford Sterling]], [[Ben Turpin]], [[Harry Langdon]], [[Al St. John]] and [[Chester Conklin]].

In 1915, Keystone Studios became an autonomous production unit of the [[Triangle Film Corporation]] with [[D. W. Griffith]] and [[Thomas H. Ince|Thomas Ince]]. Sennett left in 1917 to produce his own independent films (eventually distributed through [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]), after which Keystone's business declined. Keystone Studios eventually closed after bankruptcy in 1935.<ref name=Booker2011>{{cite book |vauthors=Booker, Keith M |title=Historical dictionary of American cinema |date=2011 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |location=Lanham, Md. |isbn=978-0810874596 |page=205}}</ref>

[[File:Mabel's Dramatic Career 1913.jpeg|thumb|right|Scene in ''[[Mabel's Dramatic Career]]'' (1913) with two moviegoers ([[Roscoe Arbuckle|"Fatty" Arbuckle]] and Sennett) arguing while watching [[Mabel Normand]] on screen]]
[[File:A Little Hero - George Nichols sr. - 1913, Keystone Film - EYE FLM38894 - OB 685520.webm|thumb|'''PLAY''' copy of Keystone's [[Film short|short]] ''[[A Little Hero (film)|A Little Hero]]'' released in 1913 in [[Netherlands]] with [[Dutch language|Dutch]] [[intertitle]]s; running time: 00:04:31.]]