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[Actor from Mack Sennett comedy film in Roman toga seated holding wine glass] / Abbe. – Antique Wall Art

[Actor from Mack Sennett comedy film in Roman toga seated holding wine glass] / Abbe., c1920. — historic photograph
[Actor from Mack Sennett comedy film in Roman toga seated holding wine glass] / Abbe., c1920.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Here a comic actor sits in a Roman toga, a wine glass in hand, in a pose that teases the ancient-world epics that dominated screens in the 1910s and early 1920s. Mack Sennett's studio, best known for its Keystone slapstick, often parodied such grand productions, and the exaggerated costume and banquet mood were meant to set knockabout farce against sober spectacle. The picture was issued as a studio publicity still, marked with the company's copyright and catalog number, and credited to the photographer Abbe, whose portraits of performers were common in this period.

Created / publishedc1920.
Medium1 photographic. print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1910-1930.Film stills 1910-1930.Photographic. prints 1910-1930.
NotesCopyright by Mack Sennett Comedies. No. 280B.
SubjectsActors--1910-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,220 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-168362

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