Silent Comedy

Mack Sennett
    1880 born Mikall Sinnott in Danville Canada
    1902 Meets Marie Dressler
        Letter of introduction to David Balasco
    1908 Biograph
        Works for Griffith
    1910 Writing and Directing Biograph Shorts
    1912 With Charles O. Bauman & Adam Kessel creates Keystone
        Settles $100 bet
        Those Cops
            On Land
            At Sea
    Soon becomes the leading producer of Slapstick Comedy
        Mabel Normand
        Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle
        Charles Chaplin
        Frank Capra