Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
Tillie's Punctured Romance is a 109 -year-old film by Mack Sennett, the founder of Keystone Studios and the creator of the iconic "Keystone Cops," as well as the lover of the doomed, gorgeous little Mabel Normand, "Madcap Mabel," the pioneering comedienne of the silent screen. Mack discovered talents as rare and wonderful as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, as well as the tragic and infamous Fatty Arbuckle, and his legendary antique films gave birth to slapstick conventions such as pratfalls, pie fights, and slipping on a banana peel. In other words, D.W. Griffith or Sergei Eisenstein was not.