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| Mary Pickford | one of the co-founders of United Artists |
| Mary Pickford | known as "america's Sweetheart" |
| Mary Pickford | as one of silent film's most important performers and producers, her contract demands were central to shaping the Hollywood industry |
| Charlie Chaplin | invented the character "The Tramp" |
| Kids Auto Race at Venice (1914) | the first appearance of Charlie Chaplin's character "The Tramp" |
| Plot of Kids Auto Race at Venice (1914) | Charlie, dressed as a tramp for the first time, goes to a baby-cart race in Venice, California. He causes a great deal of trouble and confusion, both on off the track (getting in the way of the cameraman) and on (interfering with the race). He succeeds in irritating both the participants and the public. |
| Plot of The Gold Rush (1925) | A lone prospector ventures into Alaska looking for gold. He gets mixed up with some burly characters and falls in love with the beautiful Georgia. He tries to win her heart with his singular charm. |
| Modern Times (1936) | Chaplins last 'silent' film, filled with sound effects, was made when everyone else was making talkies. Charlie turns against modern society, the machine age, (The use of sound in films ?) and progress. |
| The Kid (1921) | Chaplin's first full length feature film which he directed and starred in. |
| Ben's Kid (1909) | Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's first film. |
| $40 week | Fatty Arbuckle's salary when he worked at Keystone Studios |
| Fatty Arbuckle | the first comedian to direct his own films. |
| Barnyard Flirtations (1914) | the first film that Fatty Arbuckle directed. |
| Fatty Arbuckle | discovered Buster Keaton and Bob Hope. |
| Fatty Arbuckle | received the first multi-year, multi-million dollar deal from Paramount Pictures in 1919. |
| Fatty Arbuckle | had an early end to his career due to a wrongful accusation of the rape and manslaughter of Virginia Rappe. |
| The Round-Up (1920) | Fatty Arbuckle's first full length feature film. |
| Buster Keaton | known as Chaplin's equal as an actor, but his superior as a filmmaker. |
| Buster Keaton | know for his unsmiling, expressionless face. |
| Buster Keaton | know as "The Great Stone Face". |
| The Butcher Boy (1917) | Buster Keaton's film debut. |
| The Plot of The Butcher Boy (1917) | Customers and clerks frolic in a general store. Roscoe walks out of the freezer wearing a fur coat, then does some clever cleaver tossing. In Buster's film debut he buys a pail of molasses. |
| Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) | known for one of the most suicidal stunts ever filmed. |
| Amazing Sequence from Steamboat Bill, Jr. | Keaton's dare-devil, death-defying stunt (Keaten performed his own) when a three-story building facade crashes down on top of him, saving him because the third floor window opening clears his head. |
| Amazing Sequence from Steamboat Bill, Jr. | the destructive cyclone sequence |
| Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy | famous comedy team of 20 years. |
| Laurel and Hardy | comedy team which was teamed toegher by Hal Roach for Slipping Wives (1926) |
| Laurel and Hardy | precursors of Abbott and Costello |
| Sons of the Desert (1933) | Laurel and Hardy's best film. |
| Plot of The Music Box (1932) | The Laurel & Hardy Moving Co. have a challenging job on their hands (and backs): hauling a player piano up a monumental flight of stairs to Prof. von Schwarzenhoffen's house. Their task is complicated by a sassy nursemaid and, unbeknownst to them, the impatient Prof. von Schwarzenhoffen himself. But the biggest problem is the force of gravity, which repeatedly pulls the piano back down to the bottom of the stairs. Finally, the irate Professor explodes in fury to discover the "mechanical blunderbuss" in his home, not knowing it was a surprise birthday present from his wife. |
| Plot of Sons of the Desert (1933) | So that he and Stan can sneak away to Chicago and attend the annual "Sons of the Desert" lodge convention, Ollie pretends to be sick, and gets a doctor (who turns out to be a veterinarian) to prescribe a long ocean voyage to Hawaii. Decked out in leis and strumming ukeleles, they return home only to learn that the ship supposedly carrying them has sunk. Their hastily- contrived tale of "ship-hiking" their way back cuts no ice with their wives, who've been at the movies watching a newsreel of the lodge's convention parade, starring... guess who? |
| The Music Box (1932) | this film won an academy award for Best Short Subject, Comedy |
