{"id":854,"date":"2008-06-02T02:09:47","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T06:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=854"},"modified":"2018-08-13T22:34:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T02:34:46","slug":"buster-keaton-a-hard-act-to-follow-from-vaudeville-to-movies-10-keaton-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=854","title":{"rendered":"Buster Keaton, A Hard Act to Follow: From Vaudeville to Movies + 10 Keaton shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Buster Keaton in Out West<\/em> (1918)\u2026<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u2026 and near\u00adly a half cen\u00adtu\u00adry lat\u00ader in The Rail\u00adrod\u00adder<\/em> (1965)<\/p><\/div>\n

I acknowl\u00adedge Char\u00adlie Chaplin\u2019s genius, but I have to say that his screen per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adity nev\u00ader appealed to me, and I appre\u00adci\u00adate his films with a detached, tech\u00adni\u00adcal eye. Buster Keaton is anoth\u00ader thing entire\u00adly, for me. His com\u00adic genius touch\u00ades me direct\u00adly. I laugh <\/em>when I see Keaton\u2019s silent clas\u00adsics. I was first exposed to his work as a child. The last film he made, before his death, was a short pro\u00admo\u00adtional film for the CNR<\/span>\u201ds coast-to-coast pas\u00adsen\u00adger ser\u00advice across Cana\u00adda. His stone-faced char\u00adac\u00adter cross\u00ades the coun\u00adtry on a rail\u00adway hand-car. Keaton was as bril\u00adliant in it as in any film he had made a half-cen\u00adtu\u00adry before.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you are not famil\u00adiar with Keaton\u2019s work, then the doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary series list\u00aded above, nar\u00adrated by the admir\u00ading British direc\u00adtor, Lind\u00adsay Ander\u00adson, is an excel\u00adlent introduction:<\/span><\/p>\n

(Brown\u00adlow &<\/span> Gil 1987) Buster Keaton, A Hard Act to Fol\u00adlow: From Vaude\u00adville to Movies<\/span>
\n (Arbuck\u00adle 1917) Coney Island [w. Roscoe Arbuck\u00adle &<\/span> Buster Keaton]<\/span>
\n (Arbuck\u00adle 1917) A Coun\u00adtry Hero [w. Roscoe Arbuck\u00adle &<\/span> Buster Keaton]<\/span>
\n (Arbuck\u00adle 1918) Out West [w. Roscoe Arbuck\u00adle &<\/span> Buster Keaton]<\/span>
\n (Arbuck\u00adle 1918) The Bell Boy [w. Roscoe Arbuck\u00adle &<\/span> Buster Keaton]<\/span>
\n (Arbuck\u00adle 1918) Moon\u00adshine [w. Roscoe Arbuck\u00adle &<\/span> Buster Keaton]<\/span>
\n (Arbuck\u00adle 1918) Good Night, Nurse! [w. Roscoe Arbuck\u00adle &<\/span> Buster Keaton]<\/span>
\n (Arbuck\u00adle 1918) The Cook [w. Roscoe Arbuck\u00adle &<\/span> Buster Keaton]<\/span>
\n (Arbuck\u00adle 1919) Back Stage [w. Roscoe Arbuck\u00adle &<\/span> Buster Keaton]<\/span>
\n (Arbuck\u00adle 1919) The Hay\u00adseed [w. Roscoe Arbuck\u00adle &<\/span> Buster Keaton]<\/span>
\n (Arbuck\u00adle 1920) The Garage [w. Roscoe Arbuck\u00adle &<\/span> Buster Keaton]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I acknowl\u00adedge Char\u00adlie Chaplin\u2019s genius, but I have to say that his screen per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adity nev\u00ader appealed to me, and I appre\u00adci\u00adate his films with a detached, tech\u00adni\u00adcal eye. Buster Keaton is anoth\u00ader thing entire\u00adly, for me. His com\u00adic genius touches \u2026<\/p>\n

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