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DVD006031

Mack Sennett Collection, The

Multiple

Keystone Films & Flicker Alley, 2014

Description:

BluRay - Multi-Zone.   viewing copy.   3 videodiscs of 3.
b/w.   fullscreen.   sound.  

Notes:

Special features include: audio commentaries from film historians Brent Walker, Steve Massa, Michael Hayde, and others; booklet with filmography and archival images; outtakes and studio rushes; newsreel and television footage featuring Sennett; TV episode “Mack Sennett, This is Your Life” (1954, 28 min.); original trailers and publicity materials.

Titles

+ Curtain Pole, The

Director:

Griffith, D.W.

Production Co:

American Mutoscope and Biograph Co.

Running Time:

Short.   10 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1908

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

Notes:

Farcical incidents on a journey across town with a 20-foot curtain pole.

Link to:

FII catalog |

+ Manicure Lady, The

Director:

Sennett, Mack

Production Co:

American Mutoscope and Biograph Co.

Running Time:

Short.   11 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1911

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

+ Dash through the Clouds, A

Director:

Sennett, Mack

Production Co:

American Mutoscope and Biograph Co.

Running Time:

Short.   10 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1912

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

+ Water Nymph, The

Director:

Sennett, Mack

Production Co:

Keystone Film Co.

Running Time:

Short.   8 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1912

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

+ Grocery Clerk’s Romance, A

Director:

Sennett, Mack

Production Co:

Keystone Film Co.

Running Time:

Short.   8 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1912

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

+ On His Wedding Day

Director:

Sennett, Mack

Production Co:

Keystone Film Co.

Running Time:

Short.   6 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1913

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

+ Bangville Police, The

Director:

Lehrman, Henry

Production Co:

Keystone Film Co.

Running Time:

Short.   6 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1913

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

+ Fishy Affair, A

Director:

Sennett, Mack

Production Co:

Keystone Film Co.

Running Time:

Short.   7 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1913

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

+ Speed Kings, The

Director:

Lucas, Wilfred

Production Co:

Keystone Film Co.

Running Time:

Short.   9 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1913

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

Notes:

Featuring real-life racers Earl Cooper and Teddy Tetzlaft.

+ Thief Catcher, A

Director:

Sterling, Ford

Production Co:

Keystone Film Co.

Running Time:

Short.   8 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1914

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

+ Great Toe Mystery, The

Production Co:

Keystone Film Co.

Running Time:

Short.   11 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1914

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

+ Recreation

Alternate Title:

Spring Fever

Director:

Chaplin, Charles

Production Co:

Keystone Film Co.

Running Time:

Short.   5 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1914

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

Notes:

An improvised little affair in a park, ending with everyone in the lake.

Link to:

FII catalog |

+ Shot in the Excitement

Production Co:

Keystone Film Co.

Running Time:

Short.   12 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1914

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

+ Noise of Bombs, The

Production Co:

Keystone Film Co.

Running Time:

Short.   12 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1914

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

+ Ambrose’s First Falsehood

Director:

Jones, F. Richard

Production Co:

Keystone Film Co.

Running Time:

Short.   11 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1914

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

Notes:

Featuring Mack Swain as Ambrose, who lies to his wife about taking a train voyage so he can meet a date at a cafe.

+ Bird’s a Bird, A

Production Co:

Keystone Film Co.

Running Time:

Short.   13 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1915

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

+ Gussle’s Day of Rest

Director:

Jones, F. Richard

Production Co:

Keystone Film Co.

Running Time:

Short.   22 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1915

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

Notes:

Gussle (Syd Chaplin) ditches his wife to go on a picnic with a friend and his date.

+ Do-Re-Mi-Boom!

Director:

Wright, Walter

Production Co:

Keystone Film Co.

Running Time:

Short.   12 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1915

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

+ Lover’s Lost Control, A

Director:

Chaplin, Syd; Avery, Charles

Production Co:

Keystone Film Co.

Running Time:

Short.   22 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1915

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

+ Submarine Pirate, A

Director:

Chaplin, Syd; Avery, Charles

Production Co:

Triangle Keystone

Running Time:

Short.   24 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1915

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

+ Fatty and Mabel Adrift

Director:

Arbuckle, Roscoe

Production Co:

Triangle Keystone

Running Time:

Short.   30 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1916

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

Notes:

Newlyweds Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand visit a seaside cottage, which is cast into the ocean by a jilted boy.

+ His Bitter Pill

Director:

Fishback, Fred

Production Co:

Triangle Keystone

Running Time:

Short.   20 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1916

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

Notes:

A sheriff (Mack Swain) loses his lover to a bandit (Edgar Kennedy).

+ Madcap Ambrose

Director:

Fishback, Fred

Production Co:

Triangle Keystone

Running Time:

Short.   21 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1916

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

+ Teddy at the Throttle

Director:

Badger, Clarence

Production Co:

Triangle Keystone

Running Time:

Short.   27 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1917

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

Notes:

A villain (Wallace Beery) ties Gloria (Gloria Swanson) to the railroad tracks, and Bobby (Bobbie Knight) must rescue her; culminating in a comic chase across L.A.

Link to:

FII catalog |

+ Her Torpedoed Love

Director:

Griffin, Frank C.

Production Co:

Triangle Keystone

Running Time:

Short.   21 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1917

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

+ Clever Dummy, A

Director:

Raymaker, Herman C.

Production Co:

Triangle Keystone

Running Time:

Short.   19 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1917

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

Notes:

Janitor Ben (Ben Turpin) winds up on stage during a ventriloquist’s performance.

Link to:

FII catalog |

+ Hearts and Flowers

Director:

Cline, Eddie

Production Co:

Mack Sennett Comedies

Running Time:

Short.   21 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1919

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

+ Down on the Farm

Director:

Kenton, Erle C.; Grey, Ray

Production Co:

Mack Sennett Comedies; United Artists

Running Time:

Feature.   52 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1920

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

Notes:

Louise hatches a plan to ward off the village landlord’s unwanted advances, but it has unintended consequences.

+ Don’t Weaken

Director:

St. Clair, Mal

Production Co:

Mack Sennett Comedies

Running Time:

Short.   21 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1920

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

+ Gymnasium Jim

Director:

Del Ruth, Roy

Production Co:

Mack Sennett Comedies

Running Time:

Short.   19 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1922

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

Notes:

An eccentric auto garage owner prepares for a boxing match.

Link to:

FII catalog |

+ Extra Girl, The

Director:

Jones, F. Richard

Production Co:

Mack Sennett Comedies

Running Time:

Feature.   73 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1923

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

Notes:

After her parents refuse to let her marry Dave, the auto mechanic, Sue (Mabel Normand) wins a talent contest and goes to Hollywood.

Link to:

FII catalog |

+ Dare-Devil, The

Director:

Lord, Del

Production Co:

Mack Sennett Comedies

Running Time:

Short.   20 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1923

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

Notes:

After earning the director’s wrath for ruining a movie set, a stuntman is left behind in a flooded water tank set when the crew leaves to film a real fire.

Link to:

FII catalog |

+ Black Oxfords

Director:

Lord, Del

Production Co:

Mack Sennett Comedies

Running Time:

Short.   20 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1924

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

+ Galloping Bungalows

Director:

Lord, Del

Production Co:

Mack Sennett Comedies

Running Time:

Short.   19 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1924

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

+ His Marriage Wow

Director:

Edwards, Harry

Production Co:

Mack Sennett Comedies

Running Time:

Short.   21 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1925

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

Notes:

Harry Langdon becomes convinced his wife’s family is trying to kill him for insurance money.

Link to:

FII catalog |

+ Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies

Director:

Lord, Del

Production Co:

Mack Sennett Comedies

Running Time:

Short.   18 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1925

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

Notes:

An inventor and his assistant develop radio-controlled cars.

+ Rainy Knight, A

Director:

Bacon, Lloyd

Production Co:

Mack Sennett Comedies

Running Time:

Short.   20 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1925

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

Notes:

A phonograph needle salesman rescues a girl from a runaway horse and falls in love, which creates problems with his girlfriend and the girl’s boyfriend.

+ Saturday Afternoon

Director:

Edwards, Harry

Production Co:

Mack Sennett Comedies; Pathé Exchange

Running Time:

Short.   27 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1926

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

Notes:

A henpecked husband (Harry Langdon) sneaks away from his wife to go on a double date with his coworker.

Link to:

FII catalog |

+ Sea Dog’s Tale, A

Director:

Lord, Del

Production Co:

Mack Sennett Comedies

Running Time:

Short.   11 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1926

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

+ Hoboken to Hollywood

Director:

Lord, Del

Production Co:

Mack Sennett Comedies; Pathé Exchange

Running Time:

Short.   20 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1926

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

Notes:

Billy Bevan and his family set out for California in a broken-down car.

Link to:

FII catalog |

+ Ice Cold Cocos

Director:

Lord, Del

Production Co:

Mack Sennett Comedies

Running Time:

Short.   19 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1926

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

Notes:

Billy and Andy attempt to deliver ice to Madeline, which makes her boyfriend jealous.

Link to:

FII catalog |

+ Broke in China

Director:

Cline, Eddie

Production Co:

Mack Sennett Comedies

Running Time:

Short.   20 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1927

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

Notes:

Ben, a sailor, wins a fortune at roulette in a Chinese cabaret.

+ Pride of Pikeville, The

Director:

Goulding, Alf

Production Co:

Mack Sennett Comedies

Running Time:

Short.   20 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1927

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

+ Fiddlesticks

Director:

Edwards, Harry

Production Co:

Mack Sennett Comedies

Running Time:

Short.   21 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1927

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

Notes:

Harry Langdon is not popular as a street musician, so he decides to turn a profit from the knick-knacks people throw out their windows at him.

+ Run, Girl, Run

Director:

Goulding, Alf

Production Co:

Mack Sennett Comedies

Running Time:

Short.   20 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1928

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

Notes:

Carole is favored to win the college track meet, but she is more interested in a boy.

+ Taxi for Two

Director:

Lord, Del

Production Co:

Mack Sennett Comedies

Running Time:

Short.   17 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1928

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

+ Bluffer, The

Director:

Cline, Eddie

Production Co:

Mack Sennett Comedies

Running Time:

Short.   11 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

color

Country:

USA

Year:

1930

Language:

English

Genre:

Comedy

Notes:

Filmed in Sennett-Color. Starring Andy Clyde and Patsy O’Leary.

+ Dentist, The

Director:

Pearce, Leslie

Production Co:

Paramount Pictures; Mack Sennett Comedies

Running Time:

Short.   22 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1932

Language:

English

Genre:

Comedy

Notes:

A dentist (W.C. Fields) goes golfing, and then sees a series of patients while trying to prevent his daughter’s elopement.

Link to:

FII catalog |

+ Don’t Play Bridge with Your Wife

Director:

Pearce, Leslie

Production Co:

Mack Sennett Comedies

Running Time:

Short.   18 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1933

Language:

English

Genre:

Comedy

Notes:

A history lesson on how the game of bridge between couples has always ended in disaster.

+ Fatal Glass of Beer, The

Director:

Bruckman, Clyde

Production Co:

Mack Sennett Talking Pictures

Running Time:

Short.   19 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1933

Language:

English

Genre:

Comedy

Notes:

Parody of a Yukon melodrama; Mr. Snavely (W.C. Fields), a Yukon prospector, has lost his only son to the city.

Link to:

FII catalog |