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This Day in Buster…April 2, 1927 The Minneapolis Star prints a piece on “The General” & “dashing little brunette,” Marian Mack. They also describe her as “modest” and that “she has a good word for everyone” - even Buster, who we know played several pranks on his leading lady.
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#MovieMonday Celebrating a centenary this year, “Sherlock Jr.” is a fan favourite, but it is the ‘Screen Scene’ that Buster Keaton was intensely proud of. Here, in its entirety, Buster’s crew used a variety of techniques to perfectly match one moment to the next...
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British capital city post-12 AM (19 letters)
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“Our Hospitality,“ starring three generations of Keatons embroiled in a family feud between the McKays & the Canfields in the good ol’ 1830s. Another hysterical historical story!
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1923 LOST Clara Bow Film FOUND in OMAHA PARKING LOT!?!?!
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"To my pal Eddie, Introducing to you the best pal I ever had. He was sixteen years of joy to me. Sincerely yours, Roscoe Arbuckle"
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This Day in Buster…March 24, 1887 Roscoe Arbuckle, the man who gave Buster Keaton his big break in film, is born. Throughout his life, despite scandal and being unfairly blacklisted for years in Hollywood, Roscoe and Buster remained good friends. You’re the one for us, Fatty.
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I’ve had this picture for years. They told me it is Joan Crawford, can someone help me identify her?
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'The Sleeping Porch' (1929). I'd always heard Raymond Griffith didn't make talkies b/c of his damaged vocal cords. Well, here he is in a talkie... & now I understand why he didn't continue making them.
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What were the biggest production company in the 1900s ?
Hello everyone,
I'm struggling to find any information about the very early years of silent cinema: which were the 3 or 4 most powerful production companies in the first decade (although I don't know if that's measured in terms of capital, or exports...).
Strangely, I can't find anything on the subject. All I can read everywhere is that Pathé is number one.
My intuition would say that the runners-up are Gaumont and Star Film, but I may be ignoring other competitors in France or elsewhere (it doesn't seem to me that Danish or American cinemas are yet as developed, in my mind it gains power rather in the early 1910s, but I don't know much about them in this period).
Does anyone know where to find any information or data on this subject? Thanks!
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Buster Keaton, Roscoe Arbuckle, Luke the Dog, Alice Lake and Al St. John.
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This Day in Buster…March 18, 1918 The Comique boys are somewhat glad to be of service at the Elk Ridge Hotel - “The Bell Boy" is released.
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Buster Keaton’s first feature film from his own studio, “Three Ages,” was a pastiche of D.W. Griffith’s “Intolerance.” One might say it had all been done, but it hadn’t been done Keaton style!
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Help finding french? film
Many years ago I randomly came across a silent film playing on the one french channel we had, although I am unsure if the original film is french. It was entertaining, with some fast paced foot chase scenes through a castle I believe, with a villain, some kind of monster or disfigured man?. Some moments comedic in their attempt to shock or scare the audience. If anyone has any ideas what it could be, I would love to find it and watch it.
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America's Screen Comics (c. 1924-5)
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Fire Documentary!: The Prairie Demon (1923) Silent
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This Day in Buster…March 14, 1921 "Hard Luck,” is released. Buster Keaton rated this impossible gag from his shorts as one of his best. He was still laughing about it in the 1960s.
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The Iron Mask (1929)
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Behind the scenes of “College,” 1927 - Back L-R Harry Brand, Ed Brophy, Buster Keaton, Buster Collier Jr., Front L-R Louise and Myra Keaton, Constance and Natalie Talmadge, Annie Brophy
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This Day in Buster…March 12, 1927 The Toronto Star reviews “The General,” paying particular attention to the fact that Buster Keaton’s character, Johnnie Gray, had a very important part to play in the war, yet it wasn’t good enough for the sceptical Annabelle Lee…
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“The Love Nest,” 1923, is the last of Buster Keaton’s shorts released. Jilted by his love, he ends up on a whaling ship captained by Big Joe Roberts, & has a whale of a time…literally.
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This Day in Buster…March 10, 1924 The Independent-Record prints this photo describing it as ‘BUSTER KEATON in a gripping scene from “THREE AGES”’
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This Day in Buster…March 7, 1923 The Americus Times-Recorder prints an ad for a double bill of Buster Keaton in “The Blacksmith” with his sister-in-law Norma Talmadge in “The Voice from the Minaret.”
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