{"product_id":"9780989461337","title":"Charlie Chaplin Centennial: Keystone","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1914, Keystone Studios boss Mack Sennett, the \"King of Comedy\", put his newest hire to work. Charles Chaplin made 36 pictures there during his first year on the screen: 35 shorts and a feature, \u003ci\u003eTillie's Punctured Romance\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe started out as merely an actor, tasked with replacing the departing Ford Sterling, and he certainly did that. However, he took on other roles too, from building gags to writing scripts and, halfway through the year, directing his own films.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe learned as he went, picking up knowledge everywhere, but he taught as much as he learned, bringing his vaudeville training to the Hollywood screen and reinventing film comedy in the process. 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