#the great stoneface
A scene that made the cut in ‘Back Stage’, 1919…perhaps with different music ;)
Who were the top 3 silent movie stars? When did they make their movies? If you can answer those two, you need to know the answer to this: WHERE did they make their movies? Help silentlocations.com make history by officially naming Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd Alley!
Call me, maybe?
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Thank you @sanguinesarah you are also the sweetest and deserve the world!
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omg thank you so much!! the same goes to you too :)
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Thank you so much, lovely!!
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We got a mention <3
@bustermylove@bustrkeatn@nitratediva@silent–era
‘A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum’, 1966 was Buster Keaton’s final comedy, released posthumously which, despite progressive lung cancer during filming, he seemed to thoroughly enjoy making.
Buster was never told he had cancer but one wonders if somehow he had an inkling this was going to be his last big picture?
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Changing room banter in ‘The Cameraman’, 1928 between Buster Keaton & Ed Brophy #SilentSubtitles - this was a tough one to lip read, not least because of the many distractions ;)
He got it two years later…& thankfully never retired!
Buster Keaton, 60, the sad-faced comedian shown in Los Angeles, who has been getting himself into this kind of predicament for years, says he’d chuck the whole business if he could buy a couple of acres of land in the valley. He says, “I’d retire tomorrow if I had the loot”
9th Oct 1955
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Some more #SilentSubtitles - a short but sweet moment from ‘Our Hospitality’, 1923
There’s no end of opinions about Buster Keaton’s work & whilst I’d place him on the highest pedestal, other critics are little more grounded. Here’s what Paul Rotha had to say in his 1930 book, ‘The Film Till Now; A Survey of the Cinema’
“Apart from the comedies of Chaplin it is necessary only to mention
the more recent work of Buster Keaton and the expensive knockabout contraptions of Harold Lloyd. Keaton at his best, as in The General, College, and the first two reels of Spite Marriage, has real merit. His humour is dry, exceptionally well constructed and almost entirely mechanical in execution. He has set himself the task of an assumed personality, which succeeds in becoming comic by its very sameness. He relies, also, on the old method of repetition, which when enhanced by his own inscrutable individuality becomes incredibly funny. His comedies show an extensive knowledge of the contrast of shapes and sizes and an extremely pleasing sense of the ludicrous. Keaton has, above all, the great asset of being funny in himself. He looks odd, does extraordinary things and employs uproariously funny situations with considerable skill. The Keaton films are usually very well photographed, with a minimum of detail and a maximum of effect. It would be ungrateful,perhaps, to suggest that he takes from Chaplin that which is essentially Chaplin’s, but, nevertheless, Keaton has learnt from the great genius and would probably be the first to admit it.”
Amusingly, he also mentions Donald Crisp, whose efforts on ‘The Navigator’ were almost entirely reshot because Buster was unimpressed with the result. He pretended it was a wrap & sent Crisp home!
“Donald Crisp is a director of the good, honest type, with a simple go-ahead idea of telling a story. He has made, among others, one of the best of the post-war Fairbanks films, ‘Don Q’, and Buster Keaton’s ‘The Navigator’.”
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It’s time for some more #SilentSubtitles! What IS Buster saying in ‘The Saphead’, 1920?
Young man, there’s no need to fall down…
Call me, maybe?
Buster Keaton played a frontier train conductor in 1956 movie, ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ - “I must have been on the screen a minute and a half, and I was three weeks in Colorado on location to do it.” I’m sure it was no hardship, playing with trains again!
Buster’s in the zone…
Guess the favourite scene time! And this week for the #BusterKeatonChallenge it was my choice…one of many favourites ;)
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The name’s Keaton, Buster Keaton…
Guess the favourite scene time again! I love the weekly #BusterKeatonChallenge - any excuse to art on Buster ;)
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