This very interesting film gives a bird's-eye view of the immense plant of the Broncho, Kay-Bee and Domino moving picture companies, said to be the largest in the world. Then closer views are given of the wardrobe rooms, scenario department, truck garden, developing room, arsenal and other interesting sights connected with the manufacture of films. The reel winds up with some characteristic nonsense by the Keystone Company. A pleasing number. - The Moving Picture World, January 17, 1914
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Mack Sennett's Best Work
caspian197810 October 2004
Although Mack Sennett was a director for several silent comedy shorts, this is one of his best and only remembered works. Famous for hiring a young Charlie Chaplin to work for him, How Motion Pictures Are Made stars Charlie Chaplin as he talks to us (the audience) on the birth of movie town USA: Hollywood, California. A comedy, it is also an amazing look into the early Hollywood film lot and how the studio was born. A segment montage in the opening shows the slow construction of Chaplin's studio lot how each brick was laid in the building of the studio building. A terrific documentary type short, there are few movies like it. Chaplin adds his comedic genius to the movie, overall it is Sennett's production and one of the very few bits of his work that has survived to be enjoyed by a modern audience.
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