Sennett, Mack: Keystone Comedies

Sennett, Mack. Series of brief movie comedies made in the USA for the Keystone company.

In Gerald Mast's words, the basic technique of a Mack Sennet comedy was the reduction of people "to machines. His distant shots reduced people into things, making them close cousins to the other machines that zip through Sennett films . . . . Sennett increased the impression of mechanization with his mechanical camera tricks . . . . The Sennet world at Keystone was one of pure mechanical fun . . . " (518 in Mast on "History of Motion Pictures").