So with more companies joining in on the film craze some studios and people decided what genre would their films mostly be.
Some studios would focus on animated films, others could be focusing on horror films and then there's Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios founded in 1912, the studio that was known for its earliest slapstick comedy genre in movies. Mack Sennett started in the film world as both a star actor and a writer for D.W. Griffith and he stared in Griffith's only slapstick comedy film, The Curtain Pole. Released in 1909. After working with Griffith for a few more years, he later left Griffith and Biograph to form his Keystone Studio in Los Angeles. From his learning of film techniques from Griffith, he would use them for his comedy films, such as the Keystone Cops series, his most famous series from the studios, they would mostly be about bubbly cops trying to catch bad guys while funny things would happen, like chase scenes and pratfalls. Some of the biggest stars in Hollywood got their recognition from Keystone Studios, such as Mabel Normand and Fatty Arbuckle, both of which would direct their own films and both of them would later become well known and famous stars in Hollywood especially in the comedy business and one of the most famous comedian star would come out from both Keystone and from Mabel and Arbuckle's films, Charlie Chaplin.
Born on April 16, 1889, Charlie Chaplin started performing when he was 5 years old in Aldershot from Rushmoor, England, then with support from his mother he continue to perform in stage shows and vaudeville's throughout his life, he became so popular in England, that when he went on a tour in America he was invited to join the New York Motion Picture Company and join in on making a film. While reluctant of the idea at first, Chaplin liked the idea of working in the film industry and the saw this as a beginning of a new life, so he agreed and he joined with Keystone picture in his first movie appearance, Making a Living released on February 2nd, 1914. Now while Chaplin himself hated the film, he did receive a nice warm welcome from some critics and reviewers and he stuck around with Keystones for a while and he worked with Mabel Normand and Fatty Arbuckle and while he was at Keystone, Charlie invited a character that would later become his trademark character, "The Tramp." The Tramp is one of the most recognizable characters in all of movie history and it's very simple in its design, it's just Chaplin in a bowler hat, some baggy pants, a cane, a little mustache and it's like he just was born to be on screen.
Other reason that the Tramp character was so popular was it's character. You see the Tramp came in a time where money was slowly starting to become a problem for everyday citizens and here comes this character, a character that's like an everyday man for commend people. No money, looks a bit of a mess, and a bit of a troublemaker, but he also tries to be a gentleman especially around the ladies, and even when things don't go his way, he just leaves such an impression that you can't help but to root for the guy and you're happy when things go right for him.
Charlie Chaplin helped showed people just how a comedy film should be made, he show that if you have a character, a subject for matter or just a simple story and just some wacky or funny situation for your character, then you'll have a good comedy movie. In fact as you'll see in his later films he'll actually develop his Tramp character has the films goes on and he'll show that you can almost make anything into a comedy, but still have a good story.
Though Charlie Chaplin is no longer with us, he'll always be remember as a great actor and a great director and a writer for his films.