# When Comedy Was King

35 mm. version released in 1960 by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp

Producer and writer, Robert Youngson; narrator, Dwight Weist; music, Ted Royal

A compilation of sequences from old silent comedies from the early Sennett films of 1914 to the Roach comedies of 1928, featuring Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Harry Langdon, Ben Turpin, Fatty Arbuckle, Wallace Beery, Mabel Normand, Gloria Swanson, the Keystone Cops, and others

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1959
- By: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, Carousel Films
- Genres: Comedy, Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/whencomedywasking)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/whencomedywasking?play=1)