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Buster Keaton 10/04/1895

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It’s Buster Keaton’s Birth date today  

Born October 4th, 1895.

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#SaturdayCaptions Oil ask you to caption this pic from “The Railrodder” released 56 years ago today…

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Our Hospitality (1923)

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Buster Keaton for The General (1926)

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A railroad poet / Buster Keaton moodboard

thanks @katecaru for the idea ✨

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Go West (1925) + hand shots

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Seven chances   1925

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ONE WEEK dir. Buster Keaton

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Buster Keaton and Sybil Seely in One Week (1920)

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Buster Keaton in The Electric House (1922)

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waking up to a whole bunch of Buster on my dash is truly a blessed start to the day 💝😭

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Another of Buster and Natalie back from Europe.

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A few months later when Potterton visited his star in Woodland Hills, Keaton marched him around to the corner hardware store and spent an hour showing him screws and chisels.  Then, having promised to introduce his young director to Stan Laurel, they drove to Santa Monica.  Laurel, jolly and smiling in his wheelchair, seemed enormously pleased to see Keaton, who began describing how he had crossed Canada from coast to coast in The Railrodder.

“And guess who directed it?”

“Who?” said Laurel.

Keaton pointed his finger at the kid sitting on the couch.  “That,” he said.

“That” held a 7-Up in his hand as he listened to the two masters talk shop.  “It was terrific,” Potterton recalled.  “There was no sadness in either of them.”

– from Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase by Marion Meade, p. 300.  [screenshots from Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965), the documentary that shows Buster helping (and sometimes leading) the direction of Gerald Potterton on The Railrodder (1965).]

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This Day in Buster… August 16, 1928

“Three Ages,” opens in Italy with the title, “Senti, amore mio,” which means, “Listen, my love.” In the Stone Age, they had their own unique way of saying, “Yoo-hoo!”