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At Mack Sennett's Fun Factory it was all laughs: flying pies, bathing beauties on the beach, traintrack
thrills, cliffhangers, sight gags, and rehearsed spontaniety. All that was required for the anxious distributors and eager
movie audiences was A Reel a Week.
Silent film pianist Stuart Oderman met and played for many of THE KEYSTONE
KROWD and their contemporaries for whom making comedy was a very serious business. He also listened...
THE KEYSTONE
KROWD is a document of the twilight years of many of Sennett's innovators, who were still able to recall their early days
when filmmaking was in its infancy.
Come read their last opportunity to leave their impressions of themselves
and their times from a golden era.
From the man who brought you Talking to the Piano Player (and its upcoming
sequel) comes an amazing history of the greatest comedy studio in history - Keystone. Just $19.95 plus postage at the links below.
STUART ODERMAN, author and silent film pianist. In a career that covers 50 years of performing at theatres, museums, and
universities across the United States, Canada, and Greece he has had the opportunity to meet many of the major personalities
in Hollywood. Mr. Oderman is the author of biographies of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Lillian Gish. He has composed
and performed his scores for VCR and DVD versions of Pandora's Box, The Eternal Tramp narrated by Gloria Swanson, The Lumiere
Brothers First Films, and The Master Mystery starring Houdini. Television audiences are familiar with his Laurel and Hardy
series and his work for Comedy Central. Talking to the Piano, his most recent book, is published by BearManor Media.
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5 reasons to read this book. You'll learn about:
1. The M's in Sennett's life: Money, Movies, Mabel,
and Mama
2. The hidden world beneath 14th Street
3. Gloria Swanson's first mistake
4. Morality and the law: the clash with D.W. Griffith
5.
Mabel Normand's insistence that Sennett hire Charlie Chaplin
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