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My embarrassing day is coming: Someone will,in the future, post a genuine train wreck photo and I’ll say “Oh, it’s that set piece from The General” before even looking!
The sequence that is considered the most expensive shot in the Silent Era is the climactic train crash in Buster Keaton’s epic comedy “The General”. At $42,000 (in 1927 dollars), the cost was more than 10% of the film’s budget. Because this was a time before CGI, Keaton, shooting in Oregon, took a real locomotive, a real bridge and set up multiple cameras. He then lit the bridge on fire, yelled “action” and captured the wreck on film all in one take.
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“This shot is the most expensive shot in silent film history. It was filmed in a single take, that had to be perfect, with a real train and a ‘dummy’ engineer (notice the white arm hanging out the conductors window). Some of the locals who came to watch the filming, thought the dummy was a real person and screamed in horror; supposedly, one person even fainted.”
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Buster Keaton and Marion Byron share a moment in Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928)
Somehow fitting, evolutionarily our brains are still designed to recognise danger in order to ensure our survival. This is precisely the problem of the present in social networks: so many supposed false dangers are created in social media that our Stone Age brain is completely overwhelmed by them when we give in to fear.
Fear turns off our minds and that's good for the culture of excitement to generate clicks.
At some point, our perception has nothing to do with reality.
We just briefly mention Springfield and the blunt lie that pets are food for American immigrants.
Unfiltered, unchecked and created for the sole purpose of generating fear and attention.
Just be a bit more than a stone-age brain!
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Buster Keaton, photographed by Melbourne Spurr, 1926
I know there are a lot of Buster fans out there I follow, and probably Beckett fans too. This is really close to full funding and it is essential (especially in the uncommon case you’re not familiar with *Film*) you consider contributing so this crosses the finishing line. And spread the word.
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Another Buster Project
Another Buster-related project on Kickstarter I urge you to consider: [http://kck.st/1LD41DD]
Please pass along so this gets funded. FYI I have no stake in this project other than as a fan.
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“Coney Island, shot on location on a busy day in Luna Park in 1917, may be the one in which his character displays the widest emotional range. In the first scene he shimmies up a pole to watch a Mardi Gras parade, laughs, and tries to applaud—causing him to lose his grip on the pole and fall onto his date for the day (Alice Mann). Buster also weeps theatrically to the camera when the girl deserts him at the entrance to a boardwalk ride called the Witching Waves. Later he laughs some more, doubling over in mirth at the plight of poor Roscoe, whom Buster has just inadvertently knocked down with a giant mallet at a “test-your-strength” booth. In the second reel, feeling his oats in a brand-new lifeguard uniform, Buster executes an impeccable standing backflip, for no other apparent reason than because he can. He even preens for a beat or two afterward, puffing up his chest before exiting the frame in an attitude of manly resolve.”
Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century by Dana Stevens
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Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd 1955
Buster Keaton (writer, uncredited), Groucho Marx, and Chico Marx during the making of "At the Circus" (1939)
Chapter 2: Buster and the Wife
It wasn’t going away this time. How irritating, Buster Keaton thought to himself as he looked at his own visage in the bathroom mirror, gently touching his bruised cheek. At least passing it off as an accident at the studio would work. Most people wouldn’t ask twice.
To say things weren’t well between Buster and his wife Natalie Talmadge was an understatement. They hadn’t been happy in marriage in a few years, though admitting it aloud was something neither of them would do. Only one of them was trying to do something about this, and nothing he tried would work. Giving up, Buster thought, would do neither of them any good, but patience wore thin.
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How did his body wololouahgdula like that.
Buster Keaton - The Haunted House (1921)
Just caught this homage!
Cops - 1922
Amazing Spider-Man 2 - 2014
Buster Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966), “The Great Stone Face”
A man famous for directing and acting in silent films, his deadpan expression, physical comedy, and, featured above, his stunt performance. This man did all his own stunts, and they are amazing.
Dying to draw this as C and Hammy- oh my god the voices I’m about to sleep but THE VOICES
@yourhappyfella pls tell me you can see it 😭
This Day in Buster…August 5, 1926
"Battling Butler" has its U.S. Premiere in Chicago. It went down as well as that table…
