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Keystone Studios was an early
movie studio founded in
Edendale, California in
1912 as the
Keystone Pictures Studio by
Mack Sennett with backing from Adam Kessel and Charles O. Bauman, owners of the
New York Motion Picture Company. The company filmed in and around Glendale and
Silver Lake for several years, and was owned by the
Mutual Film Corporation between 1912 and 1915
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The studio is perhaps best remembered for the era under Mack Sennett when he created the
slapstick antics of the
Keystone Cops and for the "Sennett Bathing Beauties."
Charlie Chaplin got his start at Keystone when Sennett hired him fresh from his
vaudeville career to make
silent films.
Charlie Chaplin at Keystone Studios is a 1993 compilation of some of the most notable films Chaplin made at Keystone, documenting his transition from
vaudeville player to true comic film actor to director. In 1915 Keystone Studios became an autonomous production unit of the
Triangle Film Corporation with
D. W. Griffith and
Thomas Ince. In 1917 Sennett gave up the Keystone trademark and organized his own company.
Many other important actors also began their careers at Keystone, including
Harold Lloyd,
Gloria Swanson,
Louise Fazenda,
Raymond Griffith,
Ford Sterling,
Fatty Arbuckle,
Marie Dressler,
Mabel Normand,
Ben Turpin,
Harry Langdon and
Chester Conklin.
Sennett, by then a celebrity, departed the studio in 1917 to produce his own independent films (eventually distributed through
Paramount). The business of Keystone Studios decreased after his departure, and was finally dissolved after bankruptcy in 1935.
The name "Keystone Studios" was used later a production label for Cineville and was used as the fictional studio in the Cineville production Swimming With Sharks starring Kevin Spacey.
A new legal corporate entity named Keystone Studios began again during 2005. The two owners are Carl Colpaert and Lee Caplin. Keystone obtained its new trademark in 2006.
In July 2007 Independent film company Cineville and DVD distributor Westlake Entertainment are merging into an indie studio called Keystone. Joining the team are Westlake Entertainment principals Larry Cohen and Luke Stefanko
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