Buster Keaton, the shorts collection, 1917-1923.
Material type: FilmPublisher number: K20589 | Kino ClassicsPublisher: New York, New York : Kino Classics, [2016]Manufacturer: ©2016Description: 5 videodiscs (738 min.) : sound, black and white and color tinted ; 4 3/4 inContent type:- two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- Directors: Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair, Eddie Cline.
Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Video Recording | Carleton University, AVRC | SP456 - Collections Room | BLU-00300 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 16050306753 |
Full screen 1.33:1.
Booklet (25 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm.) laid in container.
Title from container.
Originally produced in the United States as a motion pictures and released between 1917 and 1923.
Special features include alternate versions of some of the shorts, such as a newly-rediscovered alternate version of the 1922 comedy The Blacksmith, containing four minutes of previously unseen material, an alternate ending of My Wife's Relations, and an alternate (politically incorrect) ending of the 1917 Arbuckle-Keaton short, Coney Island. Other special features include a 24-page booklet with detailed film notes and essay by Jeffrey Vance, author of Buster Keaton Remembered, an introduction by film preservationist Serge Bromberg (6 min.), and an excerpt from Buster Keaton's television show Life with Buster Keaton (1951), in which he reenacts Roscoe Arbuckle's "Salomé Dance", first performed in their 1918 two-reeler The Cook.
Disc 1. The Arbuckle-Keaton comedies, 1917-1920 (all films directed by Roscoe Arbuckle): The Butcher Boy (1917) -- The Rough House (1917) -- His Wedding Night (1917) -- Oh Doctor! (1917) -- Coney Island (1917) -- Out West (1918)
Disc 2 (The Arbuckle-Keaton comedies, 1917-1920 cont'd): The Bell Boy (1918) -- Moonshine (1918) -- Good Night, Nurse! (1918) -- The Cook (1918) -- Back Stage (1919) -- The Hayseed (1919) -- The Garage (1920)
Disc 3. The Keaton silent short comedies, 1920-1923 (all films directed by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline unless otherwise noted). One Week (1920) -- Convict 13 (1920) -- The Scarecrow (1920) -- Neighbors (1920) -- The Haunted House (1921) -- Hard Luck (1921)
Disc 4. (The Keaton silent short comedies, 1920-1923, cont'd): The "High Sign" (1921) -- The Goat (1921, directed by Buster Keaton and Malcolm St. Clair) -- The Play House (1921) -- The Boat (1921) -- The Paleface (1922) -- Cops (1922) -- My Wife's Relations (1922)
Disc 5. (The Keaton silent short comedies, 1920-1923, cont'd): The Blacksmith (1922, directed by Buster Keaton and Malcolm St. Clair) -- The Frozen North (1922) -- The Electric House (1922) -- Day Dreams (1922) -- The Balloonatic (1923) -- The Love Nest (1923).
Silent films with English intertitles and musical accompaniment.
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