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20-529: Made by Keystone Studios and directed by Henry Lehrman , the movie portrays Chaplin as a spectator at a " pushcar " race in Venice, Los Angeles . The film was shot during the Junior Vanderbilt Cup, an actual race with Chaplin and Lehrman improvising gags in front of real-life spectators. The film is presented at first like a genuine newsreel, with Chaplin's attention-seeking spectator getting in

40-519: A ramp to accelerate the cars in a manner similar to soap box derby races. Other classes used small engines. Chaplin's movie includes one scene shot at the bottom of the ramp used for the engineless races. There is no evidence that Junior Vanderbilt Cups were held either before or after the 1914 event. Actual silver cups were awarded. Keystone Studios 34°05′10.37″N 118°15′34.80″W  /  34.0862139°N 118.2596667°W  / 34.0862139; -118.2596667 Keystone Studios

60-683: Is the fictional studio in the Cineville film Swimming With Sharks (1994). In 2007, when the independent film studio Cineville merged with the DVD distributor Westlake Entertainment , the companies named their joint enterprise Keystone. The original Keystone Studios lot was an explorable location, as well as a major plot element, in the 2011 video game L.A. Noire , published by Rockstar Games . [REDACTED] Media related to Keystone Studios at Wikimedia Commons New York Motion Picture Company The New York Motion Picture Company

80-610: The Mutual Film Corporation between 1912 and 1915. The Keystone film brand declined rapidly after Sennett went independent in 1917. The name Keystone was taken from the side of one of the cars of a passing Pennsylvania Railroad train (Keystone State being the nickname of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ) during the initial meeting of Sennett, Kessel and Baumann in New York. The original main building,

100-602: The New York Motion Picture Company , Sennett founded Keystone Studios in Edendale, California – now a part of Echo Park – 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 , it was here that he created the slapstick antics of the Keystone Cops (from 1912) and

120-511: 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 films , in which he rapidly became a star performer and film director , participating in thirty-five films within

140-612: The Triangle Film Corporation with D. W. Griffith and Thomas Ince . Sennett left in 1917 to produce his own independent films (eventually distributed through Paramount ), after which Keystone's business declined. Keystone Studios eventually closed after bankruptcy in 1935. Much of the lighting and studio equipment from Keystone was bought by Reymond King, who started the "Award Cinema Movie Equipment" company in Venice, CA in November, 1935. "Keystone Studios"

160-468: The North East to California, being one of the first to do so. It was during a one-year apprenticeship at Keystone that Charlie Chaplin made some of his earliest films. It was during Chaplin's time at Keystone that he created the ' Little Tramp ' character he became known for. In 1915, Keystone Studios became an integral part of the Triangle Film Corporation , after the decision was made to end

180-400: The actual filming camera. In this way, the filming camera takes on a spectator's viewpoint, and Kid Auto Races becomes one of the first public films to show a movie camera and cameraman in operation. In the year that the film was released, a reviewer from the silent movie periodical Bioscope wrote, "Some sensational happenings are witnessed during the contests between the baby cars, while

200-491: The complicated legal situation, Universal continued to release films under the 101 Bison brand name at the same time as Mutual, which prompted NYMPC to release flyers urging viewers to make sure they were viewing a "genuine Bison" It was during their time with Mutual that Kessel and Baumann formed the Keystone Studios brand with director and actor Mack Sennett . At this point, the company had changed location from

220-574: The first totally enclosed film stage and studio in history, is still standing. It is located at 1712 Glendale Blvd in Echo Park, Los Angeles and is now being used as a Public storage facility . 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

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240-513: The funny man persistently obstructs the eager cameramen in their operations." A reviewer from the silent movie periodical The Cinema noted, " Kid Auto Races struck us as about the funniest film we have ever seen. When we subsequently saw Chaplin in more ambitious efforts, our opinion that the Keystone Company had made the capture of their career was strengthened. Chaplin is a born screen comedian; he does things we have never seen done on

260-483: The merger with Mutual Film Corp. Triangle Film sought to combine the talents of producers D.W. Griffith , Thomas Ince and Mack Sennett . Essentially, it was a combining of assets between Kessel, Baumann, and former Mutual Film Corp. president Harry Aitken as well as Jesse Lasky 's Feature Play company. Their mission statement was to make multi-reel films, à la The Birth of a Nation , that would appeal to higher class audiences while also gaining popularity among

280-595: The screen before." By 1914, the Vanderbilt Cup had become an important automobile racing event in the United States, and the 1914 event was to be held in Santa Monica, California . The city decided to sponsor a junior version of the event, with several classes, zero-cylinder pushcars, one-cylinder engines, two-cylinder engines, and with age limits for the drivers. Some classes had no engines and used

300-399: The single year he worked there. 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

320-426: The way of the camera, causing great frustration to the cameraman. Lehrman begins by roughly pushing an obnoxiously persistent Chaplin away, but eventually he starts knocking Chaplin to the ground. Unusually, the camera breaks the fourth wall to show a second camera filming (as though it were the first) in order to better explain the joke. At this stage, Chaplin gets in the way only of the visible camera on screen, not

340-439: Was a film production and distribution company from 1909 until 1914. It changed names to New York Picture Corporation in 1912. It released films through several different brand names, including 101 Bison , Kay-Bee , Broncho, Domino, Reliance , and Keystone Studios . Keystone would later be a part of Triangle Pictures , which would merge with Feature Play and become Paramount Studios . The New York Motion Picture Company

360-672: Was an early film studio founded in Edendale, California (which is now a part of Echo Park ) on July 4, 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by Mack Sennett with backing from actor-writer Adam Kessel (1866–1946) and Charles O. Baumann (1874–1931), owners of the New York Motion Picture Company (founded 1909). The company, referred to at its office as The Keystone Film Company , filmed in and around Glendale and Silver Lake, Los Angeles for several years, and its films were distributed by

380-442: Was founded in 1909 by Adam Kessel , Charles O. Baumann , and camera operator Frank Balshofer. Originally interested purely in film distribution, the company's refusal to work with Thomas Edison's Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC) created difficulties in securing films. Kessel was quoted as saying, "We would have to go out of business unless we made some films ourselves." Their first film, Disinherited Son's Loyalty ,

400-623: Was made in May 1909. It cost around $ 200 to make, and earned $ 2,000. From that point on, NYMPC produced about half the films it played. Billy Gane served as general manager. The company later merged with the Universal Film Manufacturing Company , only to later pull out of the merger in favor of their rival, the Mutual Film Corp. , when Universal attempted to remove Baumann as company president. Due to

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