作者 : Don Brown 出版社:Roaring Brook Press 出版日期:2003年 語言:英文 ISBN:9780761315384 頁數:32頁 裝訂:精裝 規格:26 * 26 cm
In 1900, twenty-year-old Mack Sennett was playing the back end of a horse in a Vaudeville skit on a New York stage. Fifteen years later, he was a movie producer with his own studio and a thousand employees, making some of the most memorable comedies ever filmed. This fine picture book tells Mack Sennett's story, from minor stage roles and life in theater boardinghouses to his first jobs in a brand-new industry: motion pictures. There, Mack found inspiration: he would apply the slapstick techniques he learned in Vaudeville to the movies. The result was the films that came to define the silent movies era. Mack created the Keystone Kops, introduced the world to an unknown British stage actor named Charlie Chaplin, filmed the first pie-in-the-face. By 1916, the horse's rear and had become the King of Comedy. Here-in dryly apt pictures and wonderfully understated prose- Don Brown tells his story. |