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 - Tapa blanda

this volume will be especially useful for researchers. It belongs in any comprehensive film-studies collection...useful...exhaustive - Booklist/RBB; ""The most thorough resource to date on Sennett and his wacky world of gags, speedy comic chases, and the inevitable abuse of human bodies and property. Recommended"" - Choice ""Brent E Walker has compiled and published an impressively detailed compendium comprising an exhaustive and chronologically presented filmography...a welcome and seminal addition that should be a core part of personal, academic, and community library American Film history reference collections."" - Midwest Book Review

This is a comprehensive career study and filmography of the pioneering film producer and Academy Award winner Mack Sennett, cofounder of Keystone Studios, home of the Keystone Kops and other vehicles that showcased his innovative slapstick comedy. The filmography covers the more than 1,000 films produced, directed, written by, or featuring Sennett between 1908 and 1955, including casts, credits, synopses, production and release dates, locations, cross-references of remade stories and gags, footage excerpted in compilations, identification of prints existing in archives, and other information. The book also contains biographies of several hundred performers and technical personnel connected with Sennett.