Best of Buster Keaton's stunts
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1 mil views!? It is so crazy since this was just a project for my HS History Class.
As always, thank you all for liking and sharing! After creating this video full of various clips of his stunts and all, I have learned Buster Keaton is truly a legendary. May his legend continue to entertain us all. This is a dedicated montage to Buster and his stunts. (Shoutout to my Dad for teaching me about him)
Music : George Olsen & His Music - Big City Blues,
1929 Earl Burtnett - Wedding Of The Painted Doll (Paul Gibbons, vocal)
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4:26 He fell under the weight of the water and landed his neck on the rails cracking one of his vertebra without noticing it and continued filming until years after, when it had healed and was told by his doctor that he broke his neck sometime in the past. The guy is a total badass.
Also when the front of the house falls down around him the window grazes his left arm/hand but he doesn't really give a shit.
zigstripes crack does not equal break
Why is he a badass if the cracking of a vertebra is not noticed? Some people have Siamese twins in their right nostril and do not notice...
And how do you know that it was exactly THIS stunt and not any of the other 10.000 dangerous ones?
While this clip was running, I was waiting for that water sequence, and then I thought about how I would write that comment.....that you made. So, there it is, yes, he was Badass number one (already as a baby by the way).
He's like a human cartoon.
🧡👌
best way to describe it
In a documentary about Buster Keaton that was just on TMC said Bugs Bunny & the Road Runner’s attitude was based on Keaton
Cartoons get their gags from Cinema. What's new?
Ironically his movie Steamboat Bill Jr was the inspiration of Steamboat Willie.
Buster was a true genius and sadly is still under rated today. His movies always has a wonderful mix of slapstick, irony and pathos that even Chaplin couldn't match.
He's not underrated, especially not now he's even received more recognition as being superior to chaplin.if anyone among his peers who are truly underrated they're his great mentor arbuckle, lloyd, langdon and last but certainly not least mr. charley chase.
+TheBookWorm1718 buster is a outstanding stunt actor
If you see it as competition, you're missing the are, friend. They're both truly great performers and it's a pleasure to watch them
at his early years Charlie shoots the comedy straightforward too.. but then he moved and try to create more feel rather than only pure comedy on his film.. "The kid" in which Charlie discovered the genius Jackie Coogan was the first Charlie film that made people sad in tears while laughing also.. noted that his new approach by using drama/story took his production times into twice as long as his previous short-movie and he only done it after he moved to USA
MJPamuru20, I totally agree with you. They are both superb artists. Different styles, and equally great. Saludos from Uruguay!
1:34 originally the plan was that Buster would complete the jump between rooftops and continue on - but he missed and fell. Never one to waste a shot - they built the rest of the gag of him falling and thru the building and landing on the fire truck as an after thought. Pure Genius of invention.
no way - thats not real!
@@crieverytim yeah it's actually is real. Look up buster Keaton video from "ever frame is a painting". The fact is also on his wiki
Because of that fall, buster was bedridden for three days. Unplanned falling was more injurious, I think.
From which movie is this scene from ?
@@VinayUG The Three Ages.
Wow, his stunts and movie effect in the early days are amazing. All done without computers, and digital special effects since they didn't have them in their days.. just wow
+FuujinZakii Yup, all of what you see in these movies are real :)
But that wasn't without risks, Keaton was really close to the death a lots of time because of that. For the scene with the water tank, by example, he broken two vertebrae because the water's pressure under him.
No cgi, no stunt double
Don't forget the scene where he jumps from one building to the next. Not planned, broke his leg.
and then decided to keep it in the movie. A true genius comited to his art.
This is why i appreciate directors like Jackie Chan...they still carry Keatons spirit within their films
the cool thing about this is everything is real
almost. some scenes were made with opticical tricks. = 2:05 / 1:35 for example
Yeah that's the thing about slapstick. But mr. Smith is right, too.
Mr. Smith 1:35 wasn’t trick, that was actually real
@@pamthespam6964 actually after looking into it, it was a fake building jump. He actually planned to make it though, and when he fell he injured himself. They decided to use the footage and combined it with the awnings shot
@@zakfrisch2997 I think it cuts to the shot they filmed after he injured himself when he grabs on to the awning, I think most of the fall is real lol
When actors REALLY earned their money!!
tom cruise
jukeboxx dude this guy did even more dangerous shit than Tom cruise
yes of course buster keaton is a legend, bu tom cruise has some impresive stunts,.
jukeboxx buster keaton broke some of his neck vertebrae and didn't realise until years later
riiiiiiiight...........
BUSTER KEATON IS THE BEST OF ALL SILENT FILM COMEDIANS. ENOUGH SAID.
And it's not even close.
That's your opinion and you're entitled to it!.
hal biggiam Sorry But Charlie Chaplin is Silent Film King.
Chaplin is second to Keaton
No pun intended, sadly
This guy is amazing.
Marek Bari incredible isn't he!
God, this gives me anxiety. It also makes me feel a tremendous amount of respect for Buster Keaton, this man was truly fearless.
...yes. like a toon
Oh my god. I have no context, no knowledge of this guy, no nothing. But Holy crap *i'm on the ground*. This is hilarious!
Buster Keaton, the greatest film comedian of all time. Watch "Sherlock Jr." or "Our Hospitality".
That's the beauty of Buster. He was a wonderful man. Brilliant.
TCM will sometimes show his movies on Sunday Silent Night. Otherwise, you can get a lot of his movies on dvd
Another great movie of his (there were a few scenes in this video from it) was a movie called "COPS". Buster is erroneously accused of being an anarchist who throws a bomb at a police parade and has the entire police department chasing him. Great film and awesome stunts!
His best films were the ones he directed himself under his own production company. See his masterpiece, The General and other terrific films, Sherlock, Jr, The Navigator and more!!
My first time seeing this guy after hearing Jackie Chan was inspired by him, im impressed :)
I'd only ever seen a few of his stunts here and there, I never realized what a beautiful maniac he was until seeing this video all the way through.
Incredible stunts could not get away with that today. Buster and Harold Lloyd were the kings of stunt.
If I remember correctly from my film class, Harry Houdini, a family friend, gave Buster his nickname when he saw the young Keaton fall down a flight of stairs without getting hurt.
I'm sure you do remember correctly, and that was Keaton's recollection--except that, according to Roger Ebert, he had the nickname before Houdini met him.
www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-films-of-buster-keaton
yeah, the family did a vaudeville act, where the mother sat stage left, playing sax, the father and buster center stage, buster would disobey his father till his father would toss him into the scenery, orchestra pit, even the audience!
They even would sew suitcase handles on busters clothes to make the tosses easier. Buster used to crack up laughing during being thrown, and got fewer laughs, so developed his stone face deadpan look at that time!
@@damienkobain2989 didnt they also do the aristocrats act?
Buster Keaton deserves all the admiration. He was incredibly awsome.
Timeless. Absolutely timeless. Buster, you went through so much, many of it petty, much of it irritating and depressing...but what you've left is the proof of your impeccable craft, and as long as these images remain, you will never, ever disappear.
100 years later, Buster Keaton is still a joy to watch.
It is 2017 and I have hundreds of hours of modern films and series and many, many tv channels. Still I sit here and prefere to spend my time watching silent films almost 100 years old. What a genious Buster Keaton was and what crap the make today.
2018 is same
2019 the same, too.
gdh1984 Really they didn’t care if he died? No waver to sign?
Haa Lau 2020 is the same. Movies could save a lot of money if they didn’t CGI stunts but today only very few people aren’t lazy to learn these things so movies(unless the director makes them or the actor/actress wants to learn there own stunts) so in most movies a stunt double does all of the stunts
2020 is the same!!
More laughs delivered than a collection of Adam Sandler movies
Hear Hear! i'm so glad someone still truly appreciates this kind of movie comedy especially in this pc and digital world we live in. i'm also glad what've you stated here.
Oh! what about a laurel and hardy or the three stooges movie as well ?.
Or ben stiller,seth rogen,jim carrey and marlon wayans films as well.
Same here pal. i can't argue with you on that statement you written. is it me but american film comedy hasn't been the same since the nineties, granted there were still a lot of poor film comedies but not to this extent. actually film comedy never really been the same since the end of silent era in my opinion.
And don't forget harold.
The one and only... the great Buster Keaton.... Pure genius!!!
+Walter-Jorg Langbein Check out the great buster:a celebration,on dvd/blu-ray ,coming out tuesday april 2nd
One of the wonderful things about Buster Keaton's genius is the fact that he not only could do the stunts physically, but he knew how to do them with perfect comedic style as a true artist.
He did all his stunts and did all in only one take. Amazing!
Hello “I’m Buster Keaton and welcome to Jackass”
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Really great and well made.
Not Jackass but welcome Jackie Chan
Yes he did, broke his neck on that water tower scene... and didn’t even know it.
Look AT 1:55. That is an excellent illusion! Cut-switch-restart was real clumsy way to do such illusions back then. So I stopped this and backed it up a bunch of times trying to see how it might be done. It was obvious this was a continuous roll without switching out the person and case. It just about had me beat, then it dawned on me. The outfit, most of it anyway, was a false front or very voluminous at the bottom. The actress was laying on a platform shoulder height or so that was split in the middle with a large gap between. Buster went through the case, the actress closed her legs, plunged through the gap in the middle of the raised platform to stand on the ground in front of the case.
I'm not sure if I got it perfect but it is at least a variation of that plan.
What do you think?
But could the switch be executed that quickly without a cut? I watched it at least ten times trying to figure it out. Maybe if that section of the back wall swung down to fill the gap Keaton had just gone though...
There is a slight "flash" or jump, but I can't tell if it's an edit or just the typical flicker effect you get with really old film, because it happens again a few seconds later. The other actors don't really change position, so if it's a cut it's incredibly well done. It's ingenious either way.
No, there's no cut at all! They never could've engineered it back then. Actors would've had to be stone statues, and the replacements themselves would have to be dead-on-ringers. This was not possible!
There was no switch of any kind, either. That's why I laid out how I thought it happened. If you laid flat on a platform with your arms hanging down and face forward, that's the position the actress is in at first. If you had a way to suddenly drop down, like I described, and had your arms over something to hold you up , in place while you made the move, it would work. In fact, you see some small movement of her head and arms and shoulders at the right moment if you look hard. The wall would have to have been swiftly placed in position behind her as she made the move, I would think. There might have been another way. The dress would have been very loose at the bottom. Even on a platform at shoulder height, if the dress was big enough, Buster could have passed through that trick suitcase right out through the bottom of the dress, since the bottom of the dress would have stretched upward and the pleat would have been open as high as the platform.
I admit it is kind of hard to explain, and hard to conceptualize or picture in your mind. But remember all kinds of magician tricks rely on just this kind of trickery!
junkdeal The way the stunt was done is revealed in several books on Buster Keaton. It was an old trick from vaudeville, that he later performed on Ed Sullivan. Sullivan called him later and begged him to let him know how it was done. Anyway, there is a secret panel in the wall that tilts inward. The "woman" is a man in a dress. The box he is holding has a hinge in it to allow the panel to tilt up. As soon as the man stood against the wall, two people inside lifted up the panel, grabbed the mans ankles and pulled his whole body upward and horizontal. The man continued to hold the box by the sides, but behind it was clear. The dress was weighted down at the bottom so it would hang straight. Buster jumped into the panel in the box, which tilted upward to allow him to pass through it and just beneath the body of the man that was being held up. As soon as he passed through, the assistants lowered down the man, and the false door along with him,
Ahh, I think I get it now.
Kevin Mcgue So actually I took a pretty good guess and ended up close!
Very few geniuses in the most collaborative of mediums, but Keaton maybe the greatest individual prouduced by cinema. Imagination, style, outlandish courage, beauty and sheer poetry in motion. Untouchable!
To whomever is reading this,
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@@lan2941 lol im chillen, living life
@@punch6832 thank you!!! that was years ago, but I did for sure : D
@@XxRaWrXoXoxX nice
Buster Keaton was an absolute genius!! One of the greatest silent clowns of all time.
I don't know which was funnier. Having his "car" drive off while he was stuck in the frame attached to the house or he and his "wife" watching in fear as a train runs toward their house stuck on the tracks then relief as it passes on another set of tracks only to see soon the train from the other direction slam through it!
Oh yeah, the best alright. Wow, imagine living in those days watching that stuff!!
For ages I never realised what good music this is for these films. I now always play this/these tunes with all my Fatty Arbuckle-Buster Keaton choices. I normally never notice the music people put over silents, or it's terrible, but these songs are reminiscent of Betty Boop & stuff which makes them perfect for live action cartoons like Buster's films. Nice taste.
1920s music is unique, and so fitting to so much silent film. All the music in Singin' in the Rain is authentic 20s music by Nacio Herb Brown. I'm sure the lyrics were all by one of his partners, name not remembered.
Buster was absolutely incredible ,the man just delivered the goods every time on time just brilliant.
As I get older, I can realize better how difficult was to make such comedy films. They are full of tiny details, perfect timing, perfect design of the gags, the framing, the script. They are jewels, and actors like Buster Keaton true artists, who knew exactly what to do to make people laugh along the whole film. Thank you, Mr. Keaton.
G.O.A.T. right there! Nearly 100 years later, still on the floor laughing and loving every second from this genius.
Buster must of been one tough dude to pull those stunts.. one of the very few most brilliant minds in the industry .. just another true gem of a being... Thanks Buster...
Classic ! About a century old, yet AWESOME !!!
Now this is a proper stuntman, no cgi and it looks amazing
It doesn’t just make you go wow, you jump and think oh Lord will he be alright!
Sami TheWeirdOne sorry, off topic, but I love your profile picture!
The amount of creativity in this is Genius, and that first shot of him on the train is too cool
That ”breakdance-windmill” extra flip he did with his legs when he falls to the ground , cracked me up when I was a kid , and puts a big smile on my face now , as an old man.
Old cliche, they don't make them like that anymore. Because there isn't anyone like that anymore. He won't be forgotten.
But they were the pioneers. Nothing to fall back on, no stand ins, no retakes.
Long gone but not forgotten
Buster broke an ankle on the moving staircase and broke his neck under the water tank. He didn't find out until years later when going for a health check!
Did he break some others bones of his body ?
The word genius is so overused today we forget what true genius is. He conceived, wrote, photographed, directed and performed all of this. Name one contemporary “artist” who comes close...
Greatly done! His last role w/ Zero Mostel in "A Funny Thing...Forum" showed he never lost it from the early years!
And he was still incredibly fit.
@@TheAureliac True! Buster was probably in better shape when he passed than most half his age today...including me, and I work hard for a living.
This guy was incredible! RIP Buster.
The newspaper gag is my favourite. It felt like something from a Woody Allen film.
You've got it backwards. The best of Woody Allen (in his early years) was a little like something from an average Keaton short.
Buster Keaton was far more talented, he made films for people to enjoy. Woody Allen makes the movies for himself
But many have in sense did pay homage to him in their films
I believe that Buster Keaton was Woody Allen's inspiration. For instance The Purple Rose Of Cairo was inspired by Sherlock Jr.
My dad use to love watching these old films and I never really got into them...oh how I wish my dad was here next to me as I'm watching this now.
it goes well beyond a guy that did stunts, not only was his work inventive, magical, and daredevilish, but it was even laugh out loud funny
Pure and raw skill. I love watching these. Thanks for the upload!
Buster was a master at subverting the audience's expectations. I wish I could innovate like this guy did.
I first heard of Mr. Keaton years ago when he appeared in an episode of The Twlight Zone as Rod Serling paid tribute to him by producing an episode that was like a silent film.
That was a good episode. It was called "Once Upon A Time". It was part silent and part "talkie ". The silent part was where his character Milligan was living in 1890. The sound part was where he traveled to the year 1962.
Melissa Cooper I love that episode. Too bad, it doesn't seem to be a fan favorite of The Twilight Zone. I rarely hear anyone talk about it.
Keaton really risked his life just to make us all laugh and his comic timing was impeccable. Another was Harold Lloyd.
This is basically "The Best of Buster Keaton".
OMG! Some of the scenes i've never seen before. Thank you sooo much for sharing.
Thanks for posting this. It’s the funniest thing I’ve seen for a long, long time.
Hilarious and brilliant collection. He certainly is in my Top 5 of silent film comedy creators: Charles Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Max Sennett, Hal Roach & finally - Buster. Geniuses All.
he was a legend...
Old days are far far better than today.
Buster was absolutely insane! No one till this day has ever made movies like him.
Much imitated but never bettered....genius!
The master ! Fabulus acrobat, a fantastic comical sense and so many ideas ...! can't stop watching his movies!
This man was like a living cartoon! Incredible!
We need more silent films!
The closest we have are _A Quiet Place_ and _The Artist_
All quiet on the western front
These stunts are so brilliantly done and look amazing, but the one that had me in stitches was the newspaper bit lol
Thank you so much for making it available for everyone
No problem, thank you for watching! Hope you enjoyed : )
It is amazing how many came from "Steamboat Bill, Jr." and "Cops". Two of my favorites.
this dude is a legend
I literally gasped at some of these stunts. Astonishing.
FEATUREMAN, thanks for showing me this legend!
Buster Keaton was the true master of physical comedy.
Today, no major film studio would allow him to perform those astonishing
stunts, they were too dangerous.
He was fearless and incredibly innovative. Without him Jerry Lewis, Jackie Khan
and many others wouldn't exist. Only Harold Lloyd matched him.
+Rob Jones I thought buster had no peer when it came to physical comedy,even to the best of today's physical comics!.
Love all the vintage comedians they were the best. Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy my favourites.
😆😁💖👍🙏🏻👏
Oh man the newspaper gag is great!
That is one that would stay in his bag of tricks. I guess the newspaper must have been made out of canvas so it would hold together as it was being unfolded.
Absolutely brilliant real talent
I can’t imagine health and safety allowing all this
First time in my life I have seen him, he amazing . ...
Thank you very much for this video, and very good choice of songs.
My hero 😁 thanks for sharing love it 👍
How have I never seen this stuff before. This is unbelievable
This is great Anne Geni - Thanks so much for posting. Biv.
The stunts are amazing, and that giant newspaper gag killed me...
At 1.35 that's actual footage of a stunt going wrong...he was off work for a week but decided to incorporate the footage into the finished film and make a gag of it...a bona fide genius of the big screen!
The greatest actor ever!!!!!!! I love Buster Keaton since I was a little boy
Wonderful!! Thanks so much for such a marvelous tribute to the great legend of laughter, Buster Keaton.
He absolutely amazing! This is the first time I ever seen or heard of him. Chaplin ain't got nothing on this Buster Keaton.
Now i realize this kind of video is part of the history of the people when they're alive
The cinema are one After Keaton and another Before Keaton!! He was a genius!!!
Terrific compilation and lovely music choice!
Knew he was legendary, but had seen only a few of these;
some are great _gags_ rather than _stunts._
People back in the day must have thought that this dude was insane
Endlessly inventive - pure comedy gold.
Superb! Thanks for uploading.
these clips are probably the most hilarious demonstrations of physics I can find
Lmao the car rolling over the jacket got me 😂 First instance of "feels bad man"
Verry nice. Still got a grin on my face!
good ole days
The newspaper gag is priceless!
That was excellent. Thank u 👍
This is 100 years old yet holds incredibly well compared to all the other mind blowing CZcams videos. The inspiration for Looney Tunes, Disney cartoons, Jackie Chan, Jackass, Gene Kelly etc. Actor, director stuntman, producer for all his films too! God almighty
A true genius and daredevil filmmaker and actor. His works are even stunning for this day.
i can see so many modern movie stunts inspired by him
Insane busters! I’m in love!
1:27 - 1:50 was just insane!