Oct 3, 2020
Tomorrow is the 125th anniversary of buster Keaton’s birth
Buster was more than a stone face, back then he made a name for himself as child, partaking in his family’s vaudeville act: the three Keatons. There happens to be a comic book character named after him (Buster Brown) really that happened. He fought in ww1 where he lost the hearing from one of his ears and he entertained troops while they were awaiting order to get home after the armistice has signed. His first short he directed (roscoe Arbuckle’s the rough house) has the commissioner called the cops for duty jump cuts had to be used when the cops appear and disappear on thin air instead of them simply walking in. These special effects get me