KEYSTONE COMEDIES & MICKEY SENNETT 1918 SILENT FILM 2-SIDED LOBBY CARD / POSTER

Description: THIS IS AN ORIGINAL, EXTREMELY RARE, 1918 SILENT FILM, 2-SIDED LOBBY CARD / POSTER (8.75" X 11.75" ON HEAVY STOCK PAPER), FOR "KEYSTONE COMEDIES" FEATURING: CHARLIE CHAPLIN, MACK SENNETT, MABEL NORMAND, SYD CHAPLIN, CHESTER CONKLIN, MACK SWAIN, CHAS. MURRAY, FORD STERLING, AND FATTY ARBUCKLE, AND ON THE REVERSE SIDE, "MICKEY", STARRING MABEL NORMAND. A VARIETY OF ORIGINAL POSTERS, LOBBY CARDS, ETC. FOR VARIOUS "KEYSTONE COMEDIES" HAVE SOLD IN RECENT YEARS FOR HUNDREDS UP TO THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. MICKEY POSTERS HAVE SOLD FOR $200.00 UP TO $1,500.00. I COULD ONLY FIND ONE ORIGINAL "KEYSTONE COMEDY" POSTER WITH CHESTER CONKLIN, FOR SALE NOW FOR $2,955.00, AND NO ORIGINAL POSTERS FOR SALE FOR "MICKEY". VERY MINOR WEAR TO THE EDGES, AND TWO SETS OF SMALL STAPLE HOLES AT THE EDGE OF ONE BORDER. OTHERWISE VERY GOOD CONDITION, SEE PHOTO. SEE 1-2 BELOW: 1. Keystone Studios 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 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, 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 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 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 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 "Fatty" Arbuckle, Gloria Swanson, Louise Fazenda, Raymond Griffith, Ford Sterling, Ben Turpin, Harry Langdon, Al St. John and Chester Conklin. 2. Mickey is a 1918 silent comedy-drama film starring Mabel Normand, directed by F. Richard Jones and James Young, and written by J.G. Hawks. The movie was produced by the Mabel Normand Feature Film Company. Mickey is an adult orphan who has been raised since girlhood in poverty near Feather River, California, by an unsuccessful miner, Joe Meadows, and his housekeeper, Minnie. Mickey is the free-spirited, uncultured daughter of the miner's deceased partner. Joe took charge of Mickey at her dying mother's request. Mabel Normand as MickeyGeorge Nichols as Joe MeadowsWheeler Oakman as Herbert ThornhillMinta Durfee as Elsie DrakeLaura La Varnie as Mrs. Geoffrey DrakeLew Cody as Reggie DrakeTom Kennedy as Tom RawlingsMinnie Devereaux as Minnie

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