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‎the boat (1921) directed by edward f. cline, buster keaton • reviews, film + cast • letterboxd
newlyweds buster and sybil receive a flat - pack house that you can easily put together in one week as a wedding gift. however, sybil’s rejected suitor sabotages the gift by messing around with the instructions .
thorndike and casson’s period at 6 carlyle square in chelsea encompassed some of their greatest achievements. while living here from 1921 to 1932, the celebrated thespian couple managed the new theatre, st martin’s lane, and in 1931 sybil was appointed dbe .
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saturday late afternoon, march 25 3: 30 - 5: 30 pm main program host: john bengtson, author, film historian steamboat bill jr. - buster keaton, marion byron, ernest torrence (1928) one week - buster keaton, sybil seely, joe roberts (1920) the play house - buster keaton, edward f. cline, monte collins (1921) jon mirsalis at the kurzweil
sunday late afternoon, march 26 3: 30 - 5: 30 pm main program host: larry telles, author, film historian the general - buster keaton, marion mack, glen cavender (1926) the scarecrow - buster keaton, edward f. cline, luke the dog (1920) the boat - buster keaton, edward f. cline, sybil seely (1921) dean mora at the piano
is the first film released by keaton after becoming the primary creative force in arbuckle’s operation. a parody of
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the actress dame sybil thorndike was one of the outstanding figures in british theatre in the first half of the 20th century. she is best remembered as a shakespearean tragic actress and as saint joan, a part written for her by george bernard shaw .
buster plays a family man in this one, and he' s married to sybil seely once again. in fact, this is apparently a sequel to
one week .
he shows that he takes care of children about as well as he builds houses .
buster keaton (farmhand), sybil seely (farmer’s daughter), edward f. cline (hit - and - run truck driver), joe keaton (farmer), joe roberts (farmhand), al st. john (man with motorbike), luke the dog (the dog )
keaton takes his wife (my favourite keaton gal sybil sealey) and two children boating, leaving a trail of mass destruction in his wake! there are a couple of iconic keaton moments in this one. the first launch of the ship with keaton stoically standing on the bow only for the boat to immediately sink is hilarious. the cleverly…
sunday early afternoon, march 26 1: 00 - 3: 00 pm main program host: lloyd williams, cottage grove film historian a panel conversation with harry keaton, martha jett, and lloyd williams. panel discussion lead by larry telles. plus films from the cottage grove historical society provided by lloyd williams. buster keaton cartoon - hollywood steps out keaton documentary - has some
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the family ends up in a row boat that was actually their bathtub. of course one of the boys pulls the plug out of the drain. they end up on some land and keaton mouths the earliest expletive i know of by a major movie star in a film .
, keaton and his cameraman elgin lessley advanced the art of photographic effects with their mechanical ingenuity. on a single strip of 35mm film, they created shots with as many as nine images of keaton interacting with his multiple selves. to achieve this effect, lessley masked part of the camera lens, filmed keaton’s antics, then rewound the film to its original starting frame, moved the lens mask, then filmed the relocated keaton again. this required precise timing for keaton’s performance, and excruciating accuracy for lessley. once they had begun, there was no way to correct any miscues or misplaced elements in the frame. unfortunately, the show within the film features keaton in blackface, a performance that modern audiences find objectionable. (minstrel shows were a standard element of 1920s live theater, and blackface performances did not entirely vanish from american entertainment until the 1960s .) keaton and lessley used the multiple exposures again, most notably in the 1924 feature
saturday evening, march 25 7: 30 - 9: 30 pm main program host: john bengtson, author, film historian college - buster keaton, anne cornwall, flora bramly (1927) cops - buster keaton, edward f. cline, virginia fox (1922) the blacksmith - buster keaton, virginia fox, joe roberts (1922) bruce loeb at the piano
the first keaton i' ve seen, and to be fair it' s neither his best nor my interest but it' s old school charm wins over. it' s not a film i think you talk that much about, it' s fairly slapstick about it, but from a historical perspective it' s an interesting snapshot into the humor of the time. i could have happily watched a little more .
as a father of two boys, who also builds things in the basement, i connected to this little film very well. keaton runs ragged trying to keep his family and bought afloat. yes, yes, yes, you could definitely say this movie is allegorical to the stresses of being a married father trying to support his family. i am not sure if keaton was going for that but it' s there if you want to see it .
exaggerates the problems an amateur might encounter with a build - by - numbers house. the young couple assembling their first home in a sub - development—actually the metro pictures studio lot—achieve epic levels of architectural disaster that keaton accomplishes through mechanical wizardry, all of which he designed himself. there is very little camera trickery in this short, all the effects are mechanical, not photographic. for the malformed house to spin in the film’s climax, it was mounted on a massive turntable .
i think this is the best buster keaton short film i have seen. it is a pure set - up, where keaton, with family in tow, has built a large boat that he intends to the pacific. he wrecks his house, sinks his car, before getting the boat to the sea, then it starts going badly wrong. a storm, a leak, a sinking. like a vacation gone wrong, in the most amusing way possible. a perfect 27 minutes .
buster keaton was great at what he did. he understood the medium he worked in so well. it is why his work is still at all relevant today. the boat is a short film that has very little dialogue screens. it doesn' t need to. like all of his work, it is in what he does that is so important and not what he says. although, the boat does end on one of the funniest pieces of unspoken dialogue i have ever not heard .
, also about the pitfalls of technology, presages the automatic kitchen via an elaborate rube goldberg apparatus. offering a glimpse of the transformation of america’s population from rural to suburban in the early 20th century, the film opens inside a single - room farmhouse outfitted with a profusion of labor - saving devices. state - of - the - art technologies like phonographs and natural gas are highlighted in a distinctly agrarian environment, complete with pigs, ducks, and cornfields. a chase sequence follows the progress of the moment, beginning on horseback, moving through a railroad yard, and ending on a motorcycle .
this is less inventive & clever and less funny than the keaton' s i' ve seen so far, but as a little story of a man going out on a (self - built) boat trip with his lovely wife and two children and finding the trip doomed, i found it very enjoyable. visually it looks good, especially the rotating interior of the boat, or the shot with buster sitting at the rear end of the boat against a dark backdrop and slowly sinking with it. loved to see buster with sybil seely again, they make a beautiful couple, and i like the domestic scenes inside the boat. but... i didn' t get the damfino gag. i pretty much had figured out the meaning had something to do with damn but since english is not my mother tongue, i had to look it up .
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keaton plays a married father of two young boys. he proudly builds a boat in his basement for his family to vacation on. he names it damfino. of course it is too big to get out of the door but keaton gets it out none - the - less. after rescuing his sons a couple of times he eventually gets the boat to float in the water. some low bridges cause some problems but they eventually get out to sea and start to relax. that is until a storm comes up and sinks his boat .
keaton was the destructive comic. within the first few minutes of this short he has caused his house to collapse (i wonder how many houses keaton destroyed in his career ?) and driven his car into the ocean. upon launching, his boat immediately sinks .
his character works because he never loses his famous deadpan expression. even in the middle of a crisis (usually of his own making) keaton never seems worried or upset. he takes everything life throws his way with a grain of salt. only keaton would go topside on a boat at night in the middle of a raging tempest using only a lit candle for illumination .
i liked the use of the bathtub as a lifeboat and i agree that the ending is quite funny. the boat still has the ability to induce laughs nearly a century after it was made. such is the art of buster keaton .
buster keaton watches his dreams of boat ownership go down the drain in the boat .
this is probably my favorite buster keaton short that i' ve yet seen. the simple plot device of giving him a family actually humanizes the great stone face. where normally he comes across as a simple cartoon character, by making him a husband and a father, it made me feel more for him .
there are a plethora of sight gags scattered throughout this short. i laughed at the floating anchor because it took me by surprise. likewise when he had the genius idea of nailing a picture to the hull of the boat. and like you patrick i wondered just how many houses and cars keaton must have destroyed over his career. insurance agents must have cried themselves to sleep when they heard he was coming .
what really makes keaton' s character so winning here is that he' s just so indomitable. no matter what goes wrong with the boat, he just keeps going. he' s determined to get that boat in the water and for his family to have a trip out to sea, no matter what it costs. the house gets destroyed, the car goes into the bay and the ship hits a storm, but keaton will not be stopped. he reminded me a bit (or i guess that should be the other way around) of chevy chase in national lampoon' s vacation .
was this the best keaton short? damn if i know, but it' s one of my favorites .
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thorndike’s professional debut of 1904 in a production by ben greet marked the beginning of a stage career that was to span six decades. she toured america with greet for two years and by 1907 had played 112 parts. it was good training for her time at the old vic under lilian baylis, who reacted unhappily when thorndike turned up late for rehearsal during a first world war air raid. ‘what’s an air raid when my curtain’s up! ’ baylis said .
in 1908 thorndike married the actor and director lewis casson (1875–1969) and worked with george bernard shaw for the first time. following four years at the old vic, she performed in several greek tragedies and grand guignol melodramas before shaw wrote the part of saint joan for her in 1923 .
in a specially extended drawing room on the first floor of number 6, thorndike rehearsed her many parts, most notably st joan, which she performed regularly from 1924 – when it opened at the new theatre – until 1941 .
three of keaton’s classic short films featuring breathtaking stunts and feats of visual trickery, which never lose sight of slapstick cinema’s primary objective: laughter .
there are escapades a - plenty when a photography mishap causes buster to be mistaken for bad guy dead shot dan. can buster’s disguises and quick - thinking elude the the local police chief ?
buster accidentally gets in trouble with the whole los angeles police department leading to a huge chase through the city with involving hundreds of police officers .
buster' s handmade boat, the damfino, is finished and is, of course, too large to get through the basement door. when he drives off with it in tow, the side of his house, then the whole thing, collapses. at the harbor he rides the boat out only to have it sink beneath him. the rest is a series of adventures he and his family have with the restored boat .
i guess it was inevitable, my first keaton rewatch in this endeavour. i enjoyed this viewing of the boat just as much as i did the first time round. its a short where the humour derives from a succession of disasters befalling keaton. to me it feels like a forerunner of films like national lampoons or planes, trains and automobiles .
a small boat is a very strange setting for a buster keaton movie. why? because keaton thrives in spaces, his immense physical ability, his agility and speed should never be confined. it' s like putting fred astaire in a closet. here he spends most of the time confined. there' s some good visual jokes mostly at the beginning - buster building the boat inside his house causing the front wall to fall down when trying to take it out. the boat' s sails collapsing as it passes under a bridge, then springing back up. the rotating boat room is pretty good but i think keaton improved upon the concept in day dreams. i also can' t shake the fact that keaton has probably ruined his family' s lives now. no home, no boat, not even a bathtub .
this short closed a series of lloyd, chaplin, and keaton shorts i saw tonight and i was reminded why buster is my guy. fun, creative, wonderfully deadpan, and very few “bonked on the head” gags. (after five other silent shorts i was pretty sick of seeing “bonked on the head” gags) .
buster keaton' s haplessness in the boat is brilliant. really great gags here .
keaton’s kids having his lil hat is the cutest thing out there. this short wasn’t life changing but it was a fun time and the adding of children actually worked really really well
keaton, with kids in tow (could this be made today ?), have an adventure on a boat. the ship' s name was bugging me because it seemed very odd, but there was a payoff! it' s more gags - put - together than a full story, but still enough to make you think this was the original griswold family adventure .
i play fantasy football, and in the league that i' ve been in the longest, my team name has been damfino. that' s a reference to this movie where the titular boat is called damfino. there' s a little shane trivia for you. it' s also the name used by the international buster keaton society .
what i love about this character is how he can be simultaneously very clever and extremely inept. he' s got no business taking his family out on a boat…
holy cats that rolling boat set! not much story to it, but those stunts are just a delight .
a brilliant keaton short that is endlessly creative and goofy. he' s having fun here starting to play with the intertitles as well. so much fun watching this one !
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buster keaton (multiple characters), virginia fox (twin), edward f. cline (orangutan trainer), joe roberts (actor / stagehand), joe murphy (one of the zouaves )
buster keaton was born of vaudeville. his mother, the former myra edith cutler, and father, joseph hallie keaton—known simply as “joe”—were knockabout comics on the late 19th century’s medicine show circuit. joe and harry houdini—later legendary as the ultimate escape artist and dedicated debunker of spiritualist charlatans—were partners in the mohawk indian medicine company. the traveling show featured houdini’s prestidigitation and the keatons’ raucous physical comedy. keaton, named joseph frank on his birth certificate, always claimed that houdini dubbed him “buster” in 1897, when the then - two - year - old toddler hurtled head - over - heels down a flight of stairs, rising without a care or a scratch .
the boy was thrown into the keatons’ family act in 1899. the basic schtick involved the toddler’s disobedience met by the father’s physical violence. the young keaton quickly learned how to fall, roll, take a punch, and, most importantly, keep an outward veneer of calm while suffering intense pain .
after nearly two decades of touring north america, the act broke up because of joe keaton’s drinking. in 1917, keaton, now 21 years old, met roscoe “fatty” arbuckle, a vaudevillian who had become the most successful comedian in the motion picture business. keaton, on his own since the family act’s dissolution, asked arbuckle if he could borrow a camera to learn how it worked. as legend has it, keaton stayed up all night, disassembling and reassembling the apparatus, until he was certain he understood the magic of movies. history recounts that he returned the camera the next morning and asked arbuckle for a job .
together, arbuckle and keaton made 14 short subjects. arbuckle left in 1920 to begin a brief career in feature films, leaving keaton the sole star of the shorts series. in 1923, after making 45 other shorts under producer joseph schenck, keaton transitioned to feature - length productions with
the three shorts showing in think slow, act fast come from keaton’s own production unit, buster keaton comedies, and testify to keaton’s uncanny ability to use an engineer’s approach to building comedy .
when the “talkies” came along, keaton’s days as a top box - office draw were numbered. he worked as a gag writer for mgm, he appeared in shorts at columbia and educational, he even went back to the stage. far from forgotten, keaton remained visible in the 1950s and ’60s. he was speedy alka - seltzer’s comic foil in tv spots and print ads for the fizzy cure - all. he was one of many cameos in the epic 1963 comedy
episode. in it, keaton is an ennui - afflicted janitor from the peaceful days of 1890 magically transported to the fabulous future of 1961, where he finds not utopia, but traffic jams, smog, and noise pollution. the world of the late 19th century is delineated with out - of - tune piano music, title cards, and undercranked camerawork, producing the then - stereotypically “sped - up” look of silent movies .
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sybil is a 1921 british silent drama film directed by jack denton and starring evelyn brent , cowley wright and gordon hopkirk . it is an adaptation of the novel sybil by benjamin disraeli . it is considered to be a lost film . 
sybil is a 1921 british silent drama film directed by jack denton and starring evelyn brent, cowley wright and gordon hopkirk. it is an adaptation of the novel sybil by benjamin disraeli. it is considered to be a lost film.
sybil is a 1921 british silent drama film directed by jack denton and starring evelyn brent, cowley wright and gordon hopkirk. it is an adaptation of the novel sybil by benjamin disraeli. it is considered to be a lost film.