Sergeant Keystone – The Keystone Cops
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_Cops
https://youtu.be/GwUUUqgfu-E
During the Five B.O.X.E.S. Event, Wizards must speak with Sergeant Keystone during the quest The Ojai Terror. He was the desk sergeant of Scotland Yard back when Professor was younger
The Keystone Cops (often spelled “Keystone Kops”) are fictional, humorously incompetent policemen featured in silent film slapstick comedies produced by Mack Sennett for his Keystone Film Company between 1912 and 1917.
The idea for the Keystone Cops came from Hank Mann, and they were named for the Keystone studio, the film production company founded in 1912 by Sennett.[1] Their first film was Hoffmeyer’s Legacy (1912), with Mann playing the part of police chief Tehiezel, but their popularity stemmed from the 1913 short The Bangville Police starring Mabel Normand, which had Ford Sterling in the role of chief.
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The Keystone Cops in a typical pose : Scene from In the Clutches of the Gang (1914) directed by George Nichols and Mack Sennett. The desk officer using the telephone is Ford Sterling. The policeman directly behind Sterling (in extreme background, left) is Edgar Kennedy. Next to Kennedy is an unknown William Frawley aged 27. The hefty policeman at extreme right is Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle. The young constable with bulging eyes, fourth from right, is Arbuckle’s nephew Al St. John. The casting of the Keystone police force changed from one film to the next; many of the individual members were per-diem actors who remain unidentifiable.
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