Research, research, research

Week 1 - 443 days until opening night

Lunchtime's been spent researching today. Probably one of many to come, knowing how anal I can be. Found a good vintage silent movie site with numerous Mack Sennett posters and downloaded a fair few of them - might be able to do some fake versions for publicity purposes. 

Grabbed some Keystone Cops reference  - there's a couple of original Sennett films that I can download - I'm thinking maybe show one in the pre-set stage as the audience are coming in, and possibly one during the interval as they're usually only a couple of reels in length (about 15mins).

And obviously researching images of the main characters - they were real people, of course. S'based on a true(ish) story, dontcha know. 

Here are the titular characters - Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand. They just loved their soft focus didn't they. Not too keen on smiling though...

Neil