This Day in Buster…October 6, 1921 Buster Keaton's "The Playhouse" is released. The over-arching theme of multiplicity is one that returns many times over his career but is most impressive in the opening sequence of this short.
This Day in Buster…October 4, 1895 Joseph Frank “Buster” Keaton was born in Piqua, Kansas to parents Joe & Myra Keaton. Today we get to celebrate a very special 130th birthday with a video of Buster singing, "June Night."
This Day in Buster…October 3, 1926 The Selma Times-Journal reports on boxing scenes in “Battling Butler” filmed in LA’s Olympic Auditorium. Cast, crew & extras were part of the audience but in order to fill the venue, they allowed in all-comers to wit
This Day In Buster…October 2, 1965 "The Railrodder" is released. The late Gerald Potterton was the director of this short commissioned by the National Film Board of Canada but as the documentary “Buster Keaton Rides Again” shows, it was a collaborative ef
This Day in Buster…October 1, 1922 "The Electric House" was released 103 years ago today! Hats off the young graduate who upgrades his Botany degree to an Engineering degree with not a single moment of study!
TV Tuesday - Buster Keaton on the Faye Emerson Show, singing The Letters of Charlie Brooks and Nellie Adair, with costume changes, much to Faye Emersons amusement.
This Day in Buster…September 30, 1917 "Oh Doctor!" is released. Buster Keaton plays an over-emotional mother’s boy with an equally overbearing father, Roscoe Arbuckle.
Movie Monday - “Go West,” 1925, is the love story of a boy and his cow. Friendless removes a stone from the hoof of Brown Eyes, and she in turn saves his life from an angry bull.