Mack Sennett collection. Vol. one [videorecording] : 50 digitally restored classic films / produced by Mack Sennett ; for The Keystone Film Company & Mack Sennett Comedies.
Silent films with inter-titles, musical accompaniment and brief histories of each film.
Contents:
Disc 1. The curtain pole / director, D. W. Griffith (1909) -- The manicure lady / director, Mack Sennett (1911) -- A dash through the clouds / director, Mack Sennett (1912) -- The water nymph / director, Mack Sennett (1912) -- A grocery clerk's romance / director, Mack Sennett (1912) -- On his wedding day / director, Mack Sennett (1913) -- Bangville police / director, Henry "Pathe" Lehrman (1913) -- A fishy affair / director, Mack Sennett (1913) -- The speed kings -- Early Cooper and Teddy Tetzlaft / director, Wilfred Lucas (1913) -- A thief catcher / director, Ford Sterling (1914) -- The great toe mystery (1914) -- Recreation / director, Charles Chaplin (1914) -- Shot in the excitement (1914) -- The noise of bombs (1914) -- Ambrose's first falsehood / director, F. Richard Jones (1914) -- A bird's a bird (1915) -- Gussle's day of rest / director, F. Richard Jones (1915) -- Do-re-mi-boom! / director, Walter Wright (1915) -- A lover's lost control / director, Syd Chaplin and Charles Avery (1915) -- A submarine pirate / director, Charles Avery and Syd Chaplin (1915) -- Fatty and Mabel adrift / director, Roscoe Arbuckle (1916) -- His bitter pill / director, Fred Fishback (1916) -- Madcap ambrose / director, Fred Fishback (1916) -- Teddy at the throttle / director, Clarence Badger (1917) -- Bonus features: The water nymph & bathing beauties : silent outtakes and studio rushes -- The Mack Sennett studio : rare silent footage of the Edendale studio exterior in 1920 -- The crossroads of New York : original 1922 theatrical trailer -- The Sennett story / by Joe Adamson. Disc 2. Her torpedoed love / director, Frank C. Griffin (1917) -- A clever dummy / director, Herman C. Raymaker (1917) -- Hearts and flowers / director, Eddie Cline (1919) -- Down on the farm / director, Erle C. Kenton and Ray Grey (1920) -- Don't weaken / director, Mal St. Clair (1920) -- Gymnasium Jim / director, Roy Del Ruth (1922) -- The extra girl / director, F. Richard Jones (1923) -- The dare-devil / director, Del Lord (1923) -- Black Oxfords / director, Del Lord (1924) -- Galloping bungalows / director, Del Lord (1924) -- His marriage wow / director, Harry Edwards (1925) -- Bonus features: Mack Sennett on the air : Texaco Star Theater (1939) -- Lawrence Welk show (1949) -- Meet the stars : stars -- past and present (1941) -- Erskine Johnson's Hollywood reel : 1950 television newsreel featuring Mack Sennett's 70th birthday party -- Mack Sennett's 70th birthday party : 1950 silent newsreel outtakes. Disc 3. Super-hooper-dyne Lizzies / director, Del Lord (1925) -- A rainy knight / director, Lloyd Bacon (1925) -- Saturday afternoon / director, Harry Edwards (1926) -- A sea dog's tale / director, Del Lord (1926) -- Hoboken to Hollywood / director, Del Lord (1926) -- Ice cold cocos / director, Del Lord (1926) -- Broke in China / director, Eddie Cline (1927) -- The pride of Pikeville / director, Alf Goulding (1927) -- Fiddlesticks / director, Harry Edwards (1927) -- Run, girl, run / director, Alf Goulding (1928) -- Taxi for two / director, Del Lord (1928) -- The bluffer / director, Eddie Cline (1930) -- The dentist / director, Leslie Pearce (1932) -- Don't play bridge with your wife / director, Leslie Pearce (1933) -- The fatal glass of beer / director, Clyde Bruckman (1933) -- Bonus features. This is your life : Mack Sennett (1954) -- People in the news -- Keystone cops reunion : 1962 newsreel outtakes, silent and sound.
Summary:
A collection of early comedies from 1909-1933, produced by Mack Sennett.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.