Watch Buster Keaton demolish a Pierce Arrow and a Ford

[Rusty_OToole]

... in The Blacksmith, 1922

 

 

[Frank DuVal]

Buster Keaton  was a true genius, learned the camera inside and out, did his stunts himself.👍

[Crusty Trucker]

13 minutes ago, Frank DuVal said:

Buster Keaton  was a true genius, learned the camera inside and out, did his stunts himself.👍

Watch closely... The Pierce that was wrecked was a studio prop.

[John_S_in_Penna]

Very good movie, and thank you for sharing it.

Notice how few word-panels were used in this

silent film.  Buster Keaton took pride in telling the

story through action, not through words.  This 

was in distinct contrast to the typical silent movie.

[John_S_in_Penna]

11 hours ago, Frank DuVal said:

Buster Keaton was a true genius, learned the camera inside and out, did his stunts himself.

And many of those stunts were daring, and

even dangerous.  There weren't "special effects"

in his films--he was doing all those dangerous

things himself, and for real.  Here is a brief video

that shows some more examples:

 

 

[Jim Skelly]

Harold Lloyd was another comic genius.

[dibarlaw]

Great chase scene in Keaton's "Sherlock Jr". 1924. The Youtube version starts at 39 min. with the apearance on a New 1924 Buick Model 45 Touring car chased by a Cunningham. The gag is centered around this....

 

 

[John_S_in_Penna]

3 hours ago, dibarlaw said:

Great chase scene in Keaton's "Sherlock Jr". 1924. The Youtube version starts at 39 min. with the appearance on a New 1924 Buick... 

Larry, did you mean to post a video?

The image you posted was a still picture.

The new 1924 Buick and the Cunningham

would be interesting to see.

[Flivverking]

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 In my pre teens in the late 1960s I was a bit of a raconteur of the silent movies being from a show biz family.

 I ran copies of this on 16 and 35 MM original copy stock  film from "Black hawk 'and "Castle Films" on crank projectors from relatives attics...for 25 cents a showing,with player piano accompaniment by my sister. 

What a throw back!.

 

 Buster( my favorite ,then Harold Lloyd then Chaplin )He wrecks the Pierce from pulling the motor out if his pet project Model T.

I recall.it was not a  Keaton made or Produced film. Earlier?

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[Frank DuVal]