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My Wonderful World of Slapstick
THE THIS BOOK IS THE PROPERTY OF Georgia State Bo»r* of Education AN. PR,CLAun\;v eSupt of School* 150576 DECATUR -DeKALB LIBRARY REGIONAI SERVICE ROCKDALE COUNTY NEWTON COUNTY Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from Media History Digital Library http://archive.org/details/mywonderfulworldOObust MY WONDERFUL WORLD OF SLAPSTICK MY WO/VDERFUL WORLD OF SLAPSTICK BUSTER KEATON WITH CHARLES SAMUELS 150576 DOVBLEW& COMPANY, lNC.,<k*D£H C(TYt HlW Yo*K DECATUR - DeKALB LIBRARY REGiOMA! $&KZ ROCKDALE COUNTY NEWTON COUNTY Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 60-5934 Copyright © i960 by Buster Keaton and Charles Samuels All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of America First Edition J 6>o For Eleanor 1. THE THREE KEATONS 9 2. I BECOME A SOCIAL ISSUE 29 3. THE KEATONS INVADE ENGLAND 49 4. BACK HOME AGAIN IN GOD'S COUNTRY 65 5. ONE WAY TO GET INTO THE MOVIES 85 6. WHEN THE WORLD WAS OURS 107 7. BOFFOS BY MAN AND BEAST 123 8. THE DAY THE LAUGHTER STOPPED 145 9. MARRIAGE AND PROSPERITY SNEAK UP ON ME 163 10. MY $300,000 HOME AND SOME OTHER SEMI-TRIUMPHS 179 11. THE WORST MISTAKE OF MY LIFE 199 12. THE TALKIE REVOLUTION 217 13. THE CHAPTER I HATE TO WRITE 233 14. A PRATFALL CAN BE A BEAUTIFUL THING 249 15. ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL 267 THE THREE KeAtOnS Down through the years my face has been called a sour puss, a dead pan, a frozen face, The Great Stone Face, and, believe it or not, "a tragic mask." On the other hand that kindly critic, the late James Agee, described my face as ranking "almost with Lin- coln's as an early American archetype, it was haunting, handsome, almost beautiful." I cant imagine what the great rail splitter's reaction would have been to this, though I sure was pleased. -
Moma More Cruel and Unusual Comedy Social Commentary in The
MoMA Presents: More Cruel and Unusual Comedy: Social Commentary in the American Slapstick Film Part 2 October 6-14, 2010 Silent-era slapstick highlighted social, cultural, and aesthetic themes that continue to be central concerns around the world today; issues of race, gender, propriety, and economics have traditionally been among the most vital sources for rude comedy. Drawing on the Museum’s holdings of silent comedy, acquired largely in the 1970s and 1980s by former curator Eileen Bowser, Cruel and Unusual Comedy presents an otherwise little-seen body of work to contemporary audiences from an engaging perspective. The series, which first appeared in May 2009, continues with films that take aim at issues of sexual identity, substance abuse, health care, homelessness and economic disparity, and Surrealism. On October 8 at 8PM, Ms Bowser will address the connection between silent comedy and the international film archive movement, when she introduces a program of shorts that take physical comedy to extremes of dream-like invention and destruction. Audiences today will find the vulgar zest and anarchic spirit of silent slapstick has much in common with contemporary entertainment such as Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, MTV's Jackass and the current Jackass 3-D feature. A majority of the films in the series are archival rarities, often the only known surviving version, and feature lesser- remembered performers on the order of Al St. John, Lloyd Hamilton, Fay Tincher, Hank Mann, Lupino Lane, and even one, Diana Serra Cary (a.k.a. Baby Peggy), who, at 91, is the oldest living silent film star still active. -
40 Years of American Film Comedy to Be Shown
40n8 - 4?' THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART tl WEST 53RD STREET, NEW YORK •fgLEPHONE: CIRCLE 5-8900 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FORTY YEARS OF AMERICAN FIM COMEDY FROM FLORA FINCH AND JOHN BUNNY TO CHAPLIN, FIELDS, BENCHLEY AND THE MARX BROTHERS TO BE SHOWN AT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART That movies are the proper study of mankind has been estab lished at the Museum of Modern Art, where eight comprehensive series and four smaller groups of the outstanding films through which the great popular art of the cinema has evolved since 1895, have already been shown to Museum visitors. The Museum now announces a new series of fifteen programs in the art of the motion picture under the general title: Forty Years of American Film Comedy, Part i; Beginning Thursday, August 1, the series will be presented dally at 4 P.M. and on Sundays at 3 P.M. and 4 P.M. in the Museum1s auditorium at 11 West 53 Street. Instruction will thus be provided from the screen by Professors Mack Sennett, Frank Capra, W. C. Fields, Harpo and Groucho Marx, Robert Benchley and Charlie Chaplin in a new appraisal of screen comedy reviewed in the light of history. "It is very evident," states Iris Barry, Curator of the Museum's Film Library, "that the great farce-comedies, as well as the cowboy and gangster films, rank among this country1s most original contributions to the screen. We are grateful indeed to the film industry for cooperating with the Museum in providing this unique opportunity for tracing screen comedy to its sources in this group of classics now restored to view for the amateurs of the twentieth century's liveliest art. -
The Silent Film Project
e t 02-28-2018 Films that have completed scanning:Th Silen Film Project TITLE YEAR STUDIO DIRECTOR STAR e 13AdventuresWashington of BillSquare and [1921]1928 UniversalPathegram MelvilleRobert N.W. BradburyBrown JeanBob SteeleHersholt Alic Joyce Bob, The (Skunk, The) After the Storm (Poetic [1935] William Pizor Edgar Guest, Al Shayne Gems) African Dreams [1922] Agent (AKA The Yellow 1922 Vitagraph Larry Semon Larry Semon Fear), The Aladdin And The 1917 Fox Film C. M. Franklin Francis Carpenter Wonderful Lamp (Aladdin) Alexandria 1921 Burton Burton Holmes Holmes An Evening With Edgar A. [1938] Jam Handy Louis Marlowe Edgar A. Guest Guest Animals of the Cat Tribe 1932 Eastman Teaching Films Arizona Cyclone, The 1934 Imperial Prod. Robert E. Tansey Wally Wales Aryan, The 1916 Triangle William S. Hart William S. Hart At First Sight 1924 Hal Roach J A. Howe Charley Chase Auntie's Portrait 1914 Vitagraph George D. Baker Ethel Lee, Sideny Drew Autumn (nature film) 1922 Babies Prohibited 1913 Thanhouser Lila Chester Barbed Wire 1927 Paramount Rowland V. Lee Pola Negri Barnyard Cavalier 1922 Christie Bobby Vernon Barnyard Wedding [1920] Hal Roach Battle of the Century 1927 Hal Roach Clyde Bruckman Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel Bebe Daniels & Ben Lyon 1931- Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon home movies 1935 Bell Boy 13 1923 Thomas Ince William Seiter Douglas Maclean Below The Deadline 1929 Chesterfield J. P. McGowan Frank Leigh Big Pal 1925 William John G. Adolfi William Russell Russell Blackhawk Silent Tailers / 1920- Blackhawk [Our Next Attraction] 1927 Black Sambo's Escape [1925] Keystone e al f e e f , e e f Th go o th Silent Film Project at th Library o Congress is to borrow catalog, digitally preserve, and ensur th availability o silent (and selected sound era) films for public viewing and research. -
Sennett Creative Campus, Echo Park's Newest Modern
SENNETT CREATIVE CAMPUS, ECHO PARK’S NEWEST MODERN/CREATIVE OFFICE ENVIRONMENT 1745- 1759 GLENDALE BOULEVARD, ECHO PARK, CALIFORNIA David Aschkenasy Executive Vice President Phone 310.272.7381 email [email protected] The Sennett Creative Campus is greater Los Angeles’ most unique creative office destination. The Spaces: +/- 6,500 - 14,000 sq ft Campus offers one of the largest and architecturally significant, contiguous office spaces available. Rate: $1.95 psf, Modified Gross Originally built in 1946, and fully modernized and renovated in 2015, 1745-1759 N Glendale Blvd is a Parking: In rear of building, free of charge 30,000 Square Foot +/- campus environment that brings the glory of old Hollywood to life in the 21st Century. Comprised of 4 buildings, outdoor patios and surface parking lots, 1745-1759 N Glendale Features: • Exposed Ceilings Blvd is equipped with dramatic exposed wood truss ceilings, new HVAC & electric, polished concrete • Loading Dock and hardwood floors, brand new restrooms, reclaimed wood kitchens, multiple skylights and ample • Concrete & Hardwood Flooring parking. Greater Los Angeles is very limited with regard to true creative office space of this scale and • Exposed HVAC Ducting caliber. While there is availability in Silicon Beach (Venice and Santa Monica), Hollywood, and the • High Ceilings Arts District, the Sennett Creative Campus offers the same Creative Office Build outs at a fraction of the price. The Campus is priced at least 50% below these other creative office locations, and offers • Private Exterior Patios free parking for an additional savings. There is also the opportunity to have the exclusive use of the • Skylights rooftop billboard. -
The Picture Show Annual (1928)
Hid •v Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2015 https://archive.org/details/pictureshowannuaOOamal Corinne Griffith, " The Lady in Ermine," proves a shawl and a fan are just as becoming. Corinne is one of the long-established stars whose popularity shows no signs of declining and beauty no signs of fading. - Picture Show Annual 9 rkey Ktpt~ thcMouies Francis X. Bushman as Messala, the villain of the piece, and Ramon Novarro, the hero, in " Ben Hut." PICTURESQUE PERSONALITIES OF THE PICTURES—PAST AND PRESENT ALTHOUGH the cinema as we know it now—and by that I mean plays made by moving pictures—is only about eighteen years old (for it was in the Wallace spring of 1908 that D. W. Griffith started to direct for Reid, the old Biograph), its short history is packed with whose death romance and tragedy. robbed the screen ofa boyish charm Picture plays there had been before Griffith came on and breezy cheer the scene. The first movie that could really be called iness that have a picture play was " The Soldier's Courtship," made by never been replaced. an Englishman, Robert W. Paul, on the roof of the Alhambra Theatre in 18% ; but it was in the Biograph Studio that the real start was made with the film play. Here Mary Pickford started her screen career, to be followed later by Lillian and Dorothy Gish, and the three Talmadge sisters. Natalie Talmadge did not take as kindly to film acting as did her sisters, and when Norma and Constance had made a name and the family had gone from New York to Hollywood Natalie went into the business side of the films and held some big positions before she retired on her marriage with Buster Keaton. -
Prólogo La Figura Del Gran Buster Keaton Está Actualmente Un Poco
Prólogo La figura del gran Buster Keaton está actualmente un poco olvidada ya que las últimas genera- ciones de espectadores no es demasiado cinéfila y está más acostumbrada al cine (?) de la última hornada. El cinéfilo refinado, sibarita, está en crisis y los amantes del cine mudo pade- cen de sequía en los “video-clubs”, donde muy rara vez y con cuentagotas se encuentran aque- llos títulos míticos que tanto nos interesan. Años atrás, sobretodo a partir de los años 30, Kea- ton sufrió un eclipse debido al culto excesivo que se hacía entonces al gran Charles Chaplin. Por si fuera poco, en España, se le conocía por un horrible apodo, “Pamplinas”, del cual prefie- ro no hablar por que lo considero sumamente vulgar. Después están los falsos mitos que siempre han rodeado la filmografía de Buster Keaton. Por ejemplo, que estuvo encerrado varios años en un manicomio lo cual es completamente falso. Si es cierto que tenía una excesiva afición al juego y a la bebida que terminaron por destruir su reputación y su carrera. Puesto en la “lista negra” por Louis B.Mayer, ningún estudio quería darle trabajo condenándolo a un ostracismo injusto. Aquí se ha escrito mucha (mala) literatura al respecto. Mayer y Keaton tuvieron problemas personales y diferencias respecto a lo que debía ser un buen film cómico sonoro. El tiempo le ha dado la razón a éste, porque los cómicos que el zar Mayer aupó hoy no son más que un recuerdo. ¿Quién se acuerda hoy de Eddie Cantor o de Jimmy Durante por citar a alguien? Al llegar el sonoro a Keaton le reprocharon tener una voz ronca, muy grave, y Mayer le quiso marginar para proteger a Jimmy Durante, quién tenía una voz aún más ronca, y pretendieron encerrarle en las comedias de boulevard importadas desde Broadway en vez de desarrollar películas más estrictamente cinematográficas que los talkies de aquella década. -
RUDOLPH VALENTINO January 1971
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Catalogo Giornate Del Cinema Muto 2016
ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE Chiba, Max Laiguillon, Eric Lange (Lobster Films); “LE GIORNATE DEL CINEMA MUTO” Lenny Borger. Germania: Thilo Gottschling, Andreas Lautil, Soci fondatori Matteo Lepore (ARRI Media GmbH); Karl Griep, Paolo Cherchi Usai, Lorenzo Codelli, Evelyn Hampicke, Egbert Koppe, Julika Kuschke Piero Colussi, Andrea Crozzoli, Luciano De (Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, Berlin); Hans-Michael Giusti, Livio Jacob, Carlo Montanaro, Mario Bock (CineGraph, Hamburg); Dirk Foerstner, Quargnolo†, Piera Patat, Davide Turconi† Martin Koerber (Deutsche Kinemathek, Presidente Berlin); Anke Mebold, Michael Schurig, Thomas Livio Jacob Worschech (Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF); Direttore emerito Andreas Thein (Filmmuseum Düsseldorf); David Robinson Stefan Drössler (Filmmuseum München); Ralf Forster (Filmmuseum Potsdam); Anke Wilkening Direttore (Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung); Christiane Jay Weissberg Reuter (Spielzeugmuseum der Stadt Tübingen); Lea-Aimee Frankenbach; Jeanpaul Goergen; Ringraziamo sentitamente per aver collaborato Megumi Hayakawa; Martin Loiperdinger. al programma: Giappone: Hisashi Okajima, Akira Tochigi Argentina: Fernando Martín Peña (Filmoteca (National Film Center of The National Museum of Buenos Aires); Paula Félix-Didier, Leandro Listorti Modern Art, Tokyo); Hiroshi Komatsu; (Museo del Cine Pablo C. Ducros Hicken, Buenos Johan Nordström. Aires). Italia: Flavia Barretti, Andrea Meneghelli, Australia: Joel Archer (Golden Oldies Cinema, Davide Pozzi, Elena Tammaccaro (Cineteca di Brisbane); Sally Jackson, Meg Labrum, Michael -
Noel Drewe Collection Film 178D5
Noel Drewe Collection Film 178D5 178D5.1 Outlook Very Black 9.5mm, Safety Film, Pathescope Noel Drewe Brittle Noel Drewe Collection 178D5.2 Monkeyland 9.5mm Noel Drewe Brittle, perforation damage Noel Drewe Collection 178D5.3 Fun at the Circus 9.5mm, Pathescope Noel Drewe , Circusama, Yesterday Circus Today Circus Noel Drewe Collection 178D5.4 At the Circus 9.5mm, Pathescope Noel Drewe, Circusama, Yesterday Circus Today Circus 2 Reels. Sound. Featuring "Circus Karo". Includes trapeze, whip act and 'sea lions'. Original sound commentary by Geoffrey Sumner. Supplied by C. W. Cramp Noel Drewe Collection 178D5.5 A Man-Sized Pet 9.5mm, Pathescope Noel Drewe, Circusama, Yesterday Circus Today Supplied by C. W. Cramp Noel Drewe Collection 178D5.6 A Fresh Start 300 feet 12 mins 9.5mm, Pathescope Noel Drewe, Circusama, Yesterday Circus Today Brittle, box rust transfer Adams, Jimmy Noel Drewe Collection 178D5.7 Circus at the Zoo 300 feet 12 mins 9.5mm, Pathescope Noel Drewe, Circusama, Yesterday Circus Today Brittle Circus USA Silent. Includes chimps Noel Drewe Collection 178D5.8 Circus Comes to Town 400 feet Harris, Ron 16 mins 9.5mm, Pathescope Noel Drewe, Circusama, Yesterday Circus Today Circus Silent. Features Belle Vue circus On box ‘This film purchased from Ilkeston Cine Service Supplied by C. W. Cramp Noel Drewe Collection 178D5.9 Circus Stedman of Leeds Holdings of Blackburn Ltd Cine and photographic Suppliers 9.5mm, Pathescope Noel Drewe, Circusama, Yesterday Circus Today Circus Bertram Mills Silent. Includes King George VI and Queen Elizabeth’s coronation, so the circus must be 1936/37. -
TESIS PATRICIO MARCELO CEDEÑO MOLINA.Pdf
UNIVERSIDAD INTERNACIONAL “SEK” FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA COMUNICACIÓN EL CINE Y LA CIUDAD EN LA CINEMATOGRAFÍA LATINOAMERICANA. CASO ESPECÍFICO: SAN FRANCISCO DE QUITO AUTOR: PATRICIO MARCELO CEDEÑO MOLINA DIRECTORA DE TESIS: RITA ROJAS QUITO – ECUADOR SEPTIEMBRE 2012 Extracto La presente investigación de tesis exhibe apuntes de la cinematografía mundial y latinoamericana con el afán de conseguir un criterio uniforme en lo que respecta a la construcción del cine a partir de retratar una ciudad y sus personajes. Dichos apuntes hacen referencia a la interacción del séptimo arte, sus elementos técnicos y formales, personajes, escenografía, guión, con un sistema coordinado en torno a establecidas instituciones sociales, parámetros culturales, tradiciones, que determinan a una ciudad. El análisis y estudio de esta interacción entre cine y ciudad, desembocan en la particularización de San Francisco de Quito y su cinematografía localista. Abstract This research shows notes of world cinematography and Latin American cinematography in an effort to achieve a standardized approach with regard to the production of film from representing a city and its characters. These notes refer to the interaction of cinema, its technical and formal elements, characters, scenery, script, with a coordinated established social, cultural parameters, traditions, which determinate a city. The analysis and study of the interaction between cinema and the city ends up into the particularization of San Francisco de Quito and its localist cinematography. A mi primo Marcelo (†) Agradecimientos A mi mamá Marcia. Por su incondicional soporte en todos los ámbitos de mi existencia. Tu amor, tus consejos, valores, la motivación constante me han ayudado a concluir esta etapa del camino profesional. -
A Cure for Pokeritis by Steve Massa
A Cure for Pokeritis By Steve Massa If you’re a devotee of classic American films, you’re prob- ably well aware of and have seen dozens of comedies with popular male/female teams such as William Powell & Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy & Katherine Hepburn, Rock Hudson & Doris Day, even all the way up to Adam Sandler & Drew Barrymore. But how about John Bunny & Flora Finch? Although closer in spirit to the mismatched pairing of a Wallace Beery & Marie Dressler, Mr. Bunny and Ms. Finch were the first popular male/female screen comedy team. Their films were known as “Bunnyfinches” to their legion of fans, many of whom were sure that they were married in real life. After a stage career that had encompassed twenty-two years of minstrel shows, circuses, vaudeville and working with legends like William Brady, Lew Fields, and Ray- mond Hitchcock, in 1910 the rotund Bunny presented himself at the Vitagraph Studio in Brooklyn looking for work. Resembling Shakespeare’s Falstaff or Sir Toby Belch come to life, Bunny made an immediate impression on moviegoers and became a favorite. In February of 1911, he first worked with the tall and skinny Flora Finch. The combination of the expansive Bunny with the severe Finch created an instant combative chemistry (which may have been helped by the fact that they’re said to have From “The Motion Picture Story Magazine,” Aug 1913-Jan 1914,” had an active mutual dislike for each other). courtesy of the Media History Digital Library Finch had been born in England in 1867 and began her business office.