igh over a traffic-filled street, a young man clings to the minute hand of a large clock on the side of a skyscraper. Although other people are generally given director credit on the films, all the evidence indicates that the dominant creator was Lloyd himself; and the stylistic consistency from film to film is further proof. In his late films he used sound and dialogue with intelligence and success; but when he attempted to repeat the clock sequence with sound, in Feet First (1930), it wasn't the same. The boxing and wrestling hall could be converted to host other programs, and the California Grand Opera Company performed there during October 1925. (C) renewed 1954 Loew’s, Inc. Punch Drunks copyright Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Good trick to spot the San Carlos. ( Log Out /  Key scenes took place in the newly opened Olympic Auditorium, still standing at 18th and Grand in downtown Los Angeles. In closing, Battling Butler also contains a clear image of Buster’s injured right index finger during a scene where he registers at a hotel. Thank you – I appreciate your kind words. His feature-length silent comedies, produced mainly by his own studio during the 1920s, now rank as the greatest work ever done in that form, easily rivaling (and artistically outranking) Charlie Chaplin. As might be guessed, the movie ends when amateur Buster, spurred by love and honor, defeats the pro boxer in a fight and wins the girl’s heart. The clock is slowly but surely coming adrift from the wall. Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd film locations (and more), Buster Keaton and The Three Stooges – Round 6, my five other posts about Buster and the Stooges HERE, http://www.cardcow.com/222794/san-carlos-hotel-angeles-california/, Follow Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd film locations (and more) on WordPress.com, Cagney and Harlow on The Public Enemy's Miracle Mile, Charlie Chaplin's Echo Park Home - 100 Years Later, How Laurel & Hardy Filmed Perfect Day - New Discoveries. So I was left mainly with Charlie Chaplin. Even before the first of the classic feature films, Lloyd had made around 90 shorts starring what he called 'the glass character'. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Put to the test, the silents really do still win. DOG ASIDE: Orson Welles stated that Keaton’s The General is “the greatest comedy ever made, the greatest Civil War film ever made, and perhaps the greatest film ever made”. 200 min. Wrestling movie, produced in the 1970s by the famous Judell Du Long, the ‘foremother of female submission wrestling’. Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton are hailed as masters of acting and athleticism: Keaton, for example, would perform dangerous stunts, including what the wrestling … He attracts a flock of pigeons, gets entangled in a net, is assaulted by a painter's trestle and knocked off a ledge by a swing window. Just wanted to say thank you for your wonderful blog! Tickets for the show cost $18 for adults and $12 for K-12 and college students. Only at the insistence of the insurance companies did he use doubles for the craziest shots. The wrestling scene in the Ancient Rome episode references the swordfight that turns into a wrestling match in Chaplin's burlesque. The fame of the big three overshadowed a whole generation of other, hardly less gifted comedians, among them Harry Langdon, Charlie Chase and 'Fatty' Arbuckle. Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American comedian, actor, director, writer, and producer who is generally ranked alongside Charlie Chaplin in the pantheon of silent-era movie comedy. Buster Keaton commented on Laurel’s talent, “Chaplin wasn’t the funniest, I wasn’t the funniest, this man was the funniest.” Below is an early Larry Semon vehicle, Huns and Hyphens, which features a pre-L&H Laurel. It was significant that though he made a successful shift to sound films, his career declined in the Thirties: after the Depression, the go-getter was no longer an ideal. Laurel and Hardy during the talkies era. This comic-horror nightmare is one of the cinemacs iconic images, fixed in the folk memory, even if few people today could tell you what film it comes from, or that the man in distress was called Harold Lloyd. Buster Keaton commented on Laurel’s talent, “Chaplin wasn’t the funniest, I wasn’t the funniest, this man was the funniest.” Below is an early Larry Semon vehicle, Huns and Hyphens, which features a pre-L&H Laurel. Today is the birthday of the great silent film comedian Billy West (Roy B. Weissburg, 1892-1975). Billions of dollars-worth of digital tricks will never buy the quality of laughter that we still get from just one of Lloyd's, Chaplin's or Keaton's inspired gags. Learn how your comment data is processed. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Some other interesting visual framing devices from Battling Butler. As I reported a while back in my column for The Keaton Chronicle, the film concludes with Buster, decked out in boxing shorts and a silk top hat, strolling down a city boulevard at night with his girl on his arm, oblivious to the curious onlookers surrounding them. May 23, 2018 - Explore Juliene's board "Harold Lloyd | Buster Keaton | Charlie Chaplain" on Pinterest. Finding out so much about these films in a such detailed manner is wonderful! Desmond Taylor! Everyone still knows Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, and where film buffs gather, the controversy over which of them was the greater genius drones on. The match takes place on a judo mat in an empty living room. Change ). John was employed by Mack Sennett and also worked with many other leading players such as Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Mabel Normand. 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In addition to the dozens of films Keaton made himself, there are two bio-pics for the intrepid investigator to explore. Desmond Taylor! The higher he climbs, the worse the hazards. Focusing on the works of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Laurel and Hardy, among others, this book examines ways that the body represents or interacts with the mind, setting, voice and machines in slapstick films. Keaton, Chaplin and Lloyd would sit around with their gagmen and assistants for days or weeks if necessary, wrestling with ideas until they had in … They have nearly everything with Fred Astaire, WC Fields, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, etc. A music-hall understudy to Charlie Chaplin (pre-Keystone), he appeared in over 50 films. Chaplin did work together with Keaton in Limelight. The so-called “Punch Palace” was built in preparation for the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games, and was the largest arena of its kind west of New York City, reportedly seating up to 15,300. Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and Lyons & Moran – the “good” old days on New High Street; Buster Keaton’s Go West Desert – “Frozen” in Time; Time Travel to 1919 Hollywood; CHASE! In the scene, Buster has sat down in a restaurant and randomly pointed to something in the menu without looking. A century later Keaton, with his darkly comic “theater of the absurd,” speaks to audiences like no other silent comedian. I remember much of the auditorium being a rear projection arrangement, which made me wonder if the footage they used was recycled from something else. Two DVD releases from Kino Video. He plays a shop assistant who has somehow manoeuvred himself into the predicament of having to perform a 'human-fly' act on the side of the skyscraper. 16. See more ideas about busters, silent film, comedians. ( Log Out /  See more ideas about harold lloyd, lloyd, silent film. Fatty Arbuckle; Charlie Chaplin. Buster Keaton (“a master of conveying action through imagery alone”) and Charlie Chaplin had a friendly rivalry over who could use the fewest intertitles in their silent movies. Buster Keaton … ( Log Out /  Al St. John (also credited Al Saint John, "Fuzzy" St. John; September 10, 1892–January 21, 1963) was an early American motion-picture comedian and a nephew of silent film star Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, with whom he often performed on screen.St. Were silent comedies really so funny or is the idea of this golden age just the fantasy of nostalgists? While watching THE THREE AGES, one of Buster Keaton’s earliest feature films, something odd caught my eye. Today the Olympic Auditorium is home to a church. Charlie Chaplin considered Cantinflas to be “the greatest comedian alive”. This shot to the right, of “Buster” holding an engagement ring, was filmed using a hand double. It is a strange coincidence that both Buster and Harold Lloyd had injured right hands. ( Log Out /  The film contains many thoughtfully composed scenes, such as Buster’s fiancé framed through the rear window of his limousine, receding into the distance as Buster drives away, and a tracking shot of Buster and Snitz, lost in thought, sitting on the steps of a moving passenger train. Buster and his valet, played by Snitz Edwards, sit stunned after witnessing a formerly obscure boxer who shares Keaton’s name unexpectedly win a championship bout. This is my sixth post about filming connections between Buster and the Stooges. Some of the films to be shown will be Charlie Chaplin’s “The Adventurer” from 1917, “The Haunted House” from 1921 starring Buster Keaton and “Habeas Corpus” from 1928 starring comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Battling Butler (C) 1926 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation. 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The Biltmore Hotel, designed by Schultze & Weaver in 1922, is located on Olive Street facing Pershing Square. 17. – Source. It is all the more remarkable since in silent days none of the three great director-clowns ever used a written script. A 2012 worldwide poll by Sight & Sound ranked Keaton’s The General as the 34th greatest film and the top comedy. In the unlikely event that you were wondering, that’s West in the photo above which I used on the cover of my book Chain of Fools, not Charlie Chaplin.Also, a new confusion in modern times: this is obviously another Billy West from the very funny voice-over comedian (Ren and Stimpy, etc) It was not done casually. But it is Lloyd himself who hangs perilously on to wildly speeding trucks. Hi “Skip” – thanks for the link to the San Carlos. Lloyd himself proved the point. The clock is slowly but surely coming adrift from the wall. He faces up to a universe of comic catastrophes to win through and get the girl. Typical silents averaged 240 intertitles. Buster Keaton and His Pork Pie Hat by Christopher Laws Leave a reply Following the rise of the top hat, bowler or derby, Panama, fedora, and flat cap across the nineteenth century, by the first decades of the twentieth century a man could scarcely open his front door, much less appear before a discerning public, without some suitable form of headwear. Keaton was born into a vaudeville family in Piqua, Kansas, the small town where his mother, Myra Keaton (née Cutler), was when she went into labor. Most of Judell’s films concern fights between women, but here it is girl vs. boy, both dressed in beach wear. But once I determined that Harold had used the Olive Street entrance of the classic Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel for scenes from For Heaven’s Sake, I realized Keaton had filmed here too. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Nobody talks about Lloyd, though in his day he was more prolific and more profitable than either Chaplin or Keaton. Aside from appearing with the Three Stooges in Punch Drunks, the arena has been used as a location for classic films such as Rocky (1976) and Million Dollar Baby (2004). Dec 15, 2019 - Explore Melissa Jewell's board "Buster Keaton" on Pinterest. Lloyd, in his buttoned-up jacket and shiny shoes, was the nerd-next-door. I’ll have to watch the Stooges short again. Laurel & Hardy: silent The cries and shouts brought it toppling from the heights of comic fantasy. If you thought you knew Keaton—think again! Construction began on January 10, 1925, with world champion fighter Jack Dempsey on hand for the ceremonies, breaking ground with a steam shovel. The extant Olympic Auditorium appearing in Keaton’s Battling Butler and in the Three Stooges’ Punch Drunks (1934). 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