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Mack Sennett built comedy around the chase

Keystone Films turned car chases and pie fights into a formula Mack Sennett founded Keystone Studios in 1912 and made fast, rough comedies built on chases, custard pies and policemen. He encouraged improvisation and shot outdoors to keep costs low. The Keystone Kops, incompetent policemen in a chaotic pursuit, became one of the era's best-known comic ideas. It sits in Mondo's movies & tv collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Keystone Films turned car chases and pie fights into a formula. The figure is taken from Library of Congress, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.