great filmography

Buster Keaton short films - directed by Buster Keaton

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The Navigator

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haroldlloyds:

April 1 2013 - 90th Anniversary of Safety Last! (1923)

The famous clock tower stunt was filmed using a combination of stunt work and trick photography. The set was not as high off the ground as it appeared and was actually built on top of another building and filmed to give the illusion that it was a much taller skyscraper. Harold Lloyd performed most of the close-up stunts, including dangling from the hands of a clock. Though the set wasn’t as tall as it seemed there was still the danger of Lloyd falling from the set and rolling off the roof of the lower building. 

Lloyd tested the safety of this scene by dropping a dummy onto a mattress placed on the under the clock. The dummy then bounced off the mattress and plummeted to the street below. Not to be swayed, Lloyd proceeded with the stunt and ended up with a heart-stopping piece of cinema that still delights movie goers almost a century after it’s release. 

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Home movie footage of Buster Keaton in Paris.

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vintageebonyandivory:

Buster.

I’m not sentimental by nature. Sure I miss the Keystone Cops, and Mack Sennett, and Stan and Oliver and the rest. But I don’t moon over the past. I don’t have time. One Easter Sunday I went to a party at Mary Pickford’s house. Everybody from silent films was there. I tried to have fun, but I discovered we had nothing to talk about. I like The Beatles, for instance, and some of them had never even heard a Beatles record. They haven’t kept up with the times.

- Buster Keaton, 1965

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steamboatbilljr:

Dr. Avedon said I could live to be a hundred years old. I intend to do it. For who would not wish to live a hundred years in a world where there are so many people who remember with gratitude and affection a little man with a frozen face who made them laugh a bit long years ago when they and I were both young? _{(My Wonderful World Of Slapstick)}

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