Keystone Studios

The Keystone Studios, originally Keystone Pictures Entertainment, was one of the early film companies in the United States. They were founded by Mack Sennett in Glendale, California, in 1912. Donors were Adam Kessel and Charles O. Bauman, owners of the New York Motion Picture Company.

The Keystone Studios have set milestones in film history in the great era of silent film. In addition to the Bathing Beauties, the film debut of Mabel Normand, the almost legendary slapstick here Keystone Cops series was a messy pile of police officers on an idea by Hank Mann, who initially also played the lead role. Later, Ford Sterling played the lead role.

The Keystone Studios was the first stop for many well-known stars of the silent film era, such as for Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Gloria Swanson, Raymond Griffith, Ford Sterling, Fatty Arbuckle, Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, Ben Turpin, Harry Langdon and Chester Conklin. In 1915 it merged with the film company Triangle Films of David Wark Griffith and Thomas Ince Harper. However, the Keystone Studios retained the name and independence. After the end of the Keystone Cops 1917 Mack Sennett left the studio and started his own company. Before him many of the Keystone Stars had already left, mainly due to poor salaries, which offered Sennett.

Then it went downhill with the studios. It lacked the great organizer and the big stars. In 1935, the company was dissolved after bankruptcy. The film company was taken over by the studios Mascot. Today it is owned by CBS.

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