Mack Sennett  Mack Sennett  Feature Article from Hemmings
Classic Car  October, 2008 - Jim Donnelly  No matter what the
big story is, the talking heads on the TV news shows are
guaranteed to cut away from it anytime some fool decides to run
from the law. You know, where some gel-haired dimwit riding
shotgun in the news helicopter jabbers on about how shocking,
how dangerous the moves are as the pursued busts them, with
about 15 black-and-whites across four lanes hound-dogging him,
all anticipating the inevitable bailout or crash.  It works
every time. Proves positively that chases and other nutty stunts
involving cars run amok are always at least diverting, if not
downright enjoyable. For that, society can give an ovation to
Mack Sennett, one of the very first people to teach the masses
that cars could be fun. Live, televised high-speed chases?
Without Sennett's early work in film, people might not care
about them today. Same thing for Joie Chitwood's stunt drivers,
the Mustang and Charger in Bullitt or today