It's Buster Keaton all night and overnight on TCM tonight. I'll be running my VCR the whole evening except from 1130-1215 EST when they replay a documentary getting ready to come on about Keaton.

Anyone else like 1910s and 1920s silent comedy/comedy shorts? I'm not as familiar with Keaton, especially what I'll be recording tonight, but I've seen a half dozen or more Harold Lloyd films and most of what Charlie Chaplin made (minus a few shorts that haven't been on TCM or are lost). I have 50 or so hours recorded Chaplin...

It's Buster Keaton all night and overnight on TCM tonight. I'll be running my VCR the whole evening except from 1130-1215 EST when they replay a documentary getting ready to come on about Keaton.

Anyone else like 1910s and 1920s silent comedy/comedy shorts? I'm not as familiar with Keaton, especially what I'll be recording tonight, but I've seen a half dozen or more Harold Lloyd films and most of what Charlie Chaplin made (minus a few shorts that haven't been on TCM or are lost). I have 50 or so hours recorded Chaplin...


....Whats the Buster Keaton one where he has to find a bride to inherit money or something? Running down a hill chased by tons of women. Ring a bell?

It's Buster Keaton all night and overnight on TCM tonight. I'll be running my VCR the whole evening except from 1130-1215 EST when they replay a documentary getting ready to come on about Keaton.

Anyone else like 1910s and 1920s silent comedy/comedy shorts? I'm not as familiar with Keaton, especially what I'll be recording tonight, but I've seen a half dozen or more Harold Lloyd films and most of what Charlie Chaplin made (minus a few shorts that haven't been on TCM or are lost). I have 50 or so hours recorded Chaplin...

I’m in a cinema class right now where we study all types of film and one of the first movies we watched was Buster Keaton's "The General". I thought it was a pretty good movie. I for one enjoy sound in my comedy, but I could still appreciate the creativity and the innovations that went into that classic film. You may know this already, but back in the silent comedy days the films traveled with a group of comedian/writers throughout filming and much of the gags that you see in the films are spur of the moment things that the guys just decided to try at the time and happened to work out. According to my professor, the unions in Hollywood killed that type of spontaneity in film. Now a days you have to hire a guy by the hour and pay them a certain price and there's no way you could start filming without a completed script like those guys did.

back in the 7th grade I lived in Denver and we went to this innercity school that was really really poor, you know where the kids sat on window sills instead of desks and lots of time there just wann't a teacher there. :D anyway there was no A/V equiptment and the only thing we had in my class was an old ass movie projector that was a ****in disaster it was from the 20s or somethin and on the days we were supposed to watch school videos all we could watch was Charlie Chaplan movies the same 2 or three reels. :D Ghetto ass school heh

It was funny as hell!! Every since them I've loved Charlie CHaplan.

The Harold Lloyd boxed set makes a great Christmas gift...