Although Mack Sennett was a director for several silent comedy shorts, this is one of his best and only remembered works. Famous for hiring a young Charlie Chaplin to work for him, How Motion Pictures Are Made stars Charlie Chaplin as he talks to us (the audience) on the birth of movie town USA: Hollywood, California. A comedy, it is also an amazing look into the early Hollywood film lot and how the studio was born. A segment montage in the opening shows the slow construction of Chaplin's studio lot how each brick was laid in the building of the studio building. A terrific documentary type short, there are few movies like it. Chaplin adds his comedic genius to the movie, overall it is Sennett's production and one of the very few bits of his work that has survived to be enjoyed by a modern audience.