Keystone Studios
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Keystone Studios was an early film studio founded in Edendale, California on July 4, 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by Mack Sennett with backing from actor-writer Adam Kessel and Charles O. Baum
Keystone Studios, 1915
The "Sennett Bathing Beauties"
Scene in Mabel's Dramatic Career (1913) with two moviegoers ("Fatty" Arbuckle and Sennett) arguing while watching Mabel Normand on screen
Mabel Normand, Mack Sennett and Charles Chaplin in The Fatal Mallet (1914)
Roscoe Arbuckle
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Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle was an American silent film actor, director, and screenwriter. He started at the Selig Polyscope Company and eventually moved to Keystone Studios, where he worked with
Keystone Studios
…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…
Arbuckle c. 1916
Fatty Arbuckle ad from The Film Daily, 1932
Arbuckle with his and Minta Durfee's dog Luke, c. 1919
Hand-tinted photograph of Arbuckle, c. 1915