This is one hundred years old - imagine that! How fortunate such wonderful comedy is preserved for us today.. Buster Keaton was a genius. Such screen presence. My absolute favourite.
This is titled “Convict 13” from 1920, for those who are interested. The large, main convict is played by Joseph Roberts. He would die following a series of strokes only three years after filming this.
Its a Fotoplayer, its quite a bit different from a piano. Basically take a player piano, and stuff an entire bands worth of instruments into added compartments around said player piano. All those instruments were usually played by one individual by yanking on a series of strings, pulleys, and cranks.
@@googlelord1678 Yes,he was a true inovator and an absolute genius,it´s afact as the sun shines in the daylight and the moon always come at night time!
Buster did ALL his own stunts. Even at almost 70 he did The Railrodder in Canada. He did all those stunts himself too. You should you tube it. Thanks Buster. There will never be another.
You should look into Tom Cruise. He jumps out of planes, flys helicopters in an aerobatic manner and leaps off high buildings. He’s been injured more than once, has a great team of teachers and insist he does as much as he can for integrity. Buster led the way though
There's one famous clip you'll see in the "best of Buster Keaton" CZcams clips where the entire front of a house comes crashing down on him, but he stays standing because his body passes through the open windowsill of the top floor. I read somewhere that half of the film crew refused to show up that day because they thought it would be a disaster, and of those who did the filming most of them had their eyes closed. If you look closely you can see that the sill does in fact hit his left arm on the way down, but Keaton never broke character.
@@virginiapicker That house front was reinforced against the wind and weighed 2000 lbs. Buster had 3 inches clearance on each side of him and that front could have driven him into the ground like a tent peg. Buster said that was the only time he ever saw the cameraman look away.
I love the fact Buster straightened his hat even when he'd taken a tumble from the large convict. Very dapper! Also his beating heart with nerves, those surreal touches which elevated it from slapstick to art, after all the surrealist art movement stole from Buster, also of course he is very beautiful and dainty like a fawn.
Buster you were before my time, but I have you to thank for inspiring Jackie Chan, and thanks to you both I made it through some very dark and difficult teenage years. Your movies will always have a special place in the hearts of countless people the world over. Thank you.
Even I, a 17 year old in 2022, have always felt somewhat accustomed to the air of 1800's, 1920's, etc. I have always had a simmilarity with those times at least to some extent, and now as the 100 year mark passes by 1922, I am astonished to discover how it changes the feeling... People in the future won't know that telephones used to have a disc, because they won't understand what the telephone with a handle was like at all... It's weird that someone like me feels a seperation...
Imagine reading about this movie in the newspaper, driving to the cinema, queue, sit down, wait for the movie to start and then it finishes after 7 mins.
The full short is about 20 minutes, this is just an excerpt. There would have also been more than just this at the cinema, several short films plus full movies.
@@Frivillig Early on, turn of the century, movies were far more come and go as you please type of fair, where you'd walk up, pay, and go in to watch whatever and wherever a show happened to be playing, especially as films weren't entirely as structural in nature. Eventually, the model developed to where you'd have a primary A picture, followed by several short films/cartoons, and a news reel, before getting your B picture, which was of lower quality, and the reason for the namesake of a generally bad movie being called a "B-Movie." You'd get a full afternoon of entertainment for a single ticket. The cartoon breaks were how we ended up with most early Disney shorts, as well as the Merry Melodies cartoons featuring Bugs and Co. Disney eventually took the short cartoon idea and produced Snow White. In the 30s and 40s over 90 million people went to the movies in the USA a week. That's 3/4ths the pop. at the time.
The big inmates expressions are so interesting honestly. He doesn't display anger, only a certain sadness and melancholy, but that makes it all the more creepy.
The studios played up the eyes in silent movies since that was where most of the emotion of the acting was seen. (Also why some women use eyeliner and mascara - to emphasize their emotional expressions.)
They did use liner, khol, etc, and red lip stain, and white face make up, because black and white film is draining, but Buster had truly soulful beautiful large eyes outside of filming with no make up on.
Weather's ok but 5 years after your post we are locked down in a Global Pandemic of many falsehoods. It bizarre, warn everyone so you can stop it before now. Or do these posts not go back in time?
I mean, this is still reasonably entertaining content to me :D It's more like a cartoon than a movie, and well executed with the physical effects too. The way the inmate tosses guards around like they weigh nothing... Good shit.
First time watching a real picture show.. Now I see why this was so popular back in the day, it was really entertaining and quite hilarious. Thanks for sharing this piece of history! :)
At 0:45, one of the guards running is wearing dark glasses like the type that used to be associated with blind people. I expect this was a joke that went by so quickly that many people missed it--but I'm sure the filmmakers got a kick out of including it.
@@lawrencelewis8105 I believe that this was edited using clips of Joe Rinaudo playing his American fotoplayer. If you haven't heard him, look him up on YT. He's awesome, and the fotoplayer is an amazing instrument.
@@weeniedogwrangler7096 Thanks for pointing Joe out. That is some machine! And I always wondered what the name of that circus song was. I can only guess that such a "piano" was used in movie theatres back then.
A lot of the fighting actually looks pretty real! You could feel the pain when the inmate wacks the guard right in the face with the back of the firearm! Nice quick-thinking combinations of attacks, too. Within only a few seconds all the guards were wasted. 😂👍
This is March 2023 and Buster Keaton's hugely hilarious and fun-filled antics are exceedingly popular even today. We are fortunate that the these video clips, which are hundred years old, are available to us. 😁😁😀😀😆😆
I was born in Victoria in 65. I used to skip school in the 70's to go to the Royal BC Museum and watch silent movies in the Port Moody mock-up. GREAT times!
That title probably belonged to Eric Campbell, who was the giant bully in Charlie Chaplin's films. He's probably best known as the bully in Chaplin's film "Easy Street" (1917).
Haha. I saw this in a Nickelodeon for 5 cents when I was a youngster. Laughed my ass off then so much I crapped my pants and a century later crapping them now in this nursing home using my nurses computer box. 💩
This is one hundred years old - imagine that! How fortunate such wonderful comedy is preserved for us today.. Buster Keaton was a genius. Such screen presence. My absolute favourite.
100 years?! Wow
Now think about Aristophanes, the comic playwright of ancient Athens.
"Such screen presence." 👍
Yea, let me know when I can watch it on video.
The vid says 10 pal
The inmate has invented Spawn Camping
True 😆
Lmao!!
Truly a historic moment for humanity...
Dead ass🤣
spawn trapping lol
It's amazing to me that the security camera footage from the 1920s captured all of this!
lol
Working better than Epstein’s security camera.
How funny is it that movie cameras from the 20s had better quality than most banks fuzzy surveillance systems.
Yet they failed to film Epstein
@@sleepyboy9247 Darn was going to say the same thing when I saw the comment, looks like I was beaten.
This is why Jackie Chan lists Buster Keaton as his inspiration.
I wonder if this inspired Popeye and Bruno
Woody Allen admitted stealing Buster Keaton's act in Sleeper.
who's Jackie Chan? )
@@netnema One of the most Famous Martial Arts Movie Actor.
He has paid many homages to Buster in his film's
This is titled “Convict 13” from 1920, for those who are interested. The large, main convict is played by Joseph Roberts. He would die following a series of strokes only three years after filming this.
Wow, thanks for the info. I’m spotting Mr.Roberts in lot of Buster’s films. He’s always the big mean guy.😁
@@evanabbott2737 You're welcome. All films and the people involved have a history. Too many are forgotten.
Who was the woman in the film?
@@realchilldude1271 Her name was Sybil Seely, she died in 1984. She was in a handful of pictures.
@@mckou1547 Beautiful woman thanks
Can we all just take a second and give props to the guy playing the piano through this?
No
Sure, but I still think Mick Gordon should compose a soundtrack for the remastered edition.
It's a fotoplayer with all these cartoon sound effects
Its a Fotoplayer, its quite a bit different from a piano. Basically take a player piano, and stuff an entire bands worth of instruments into added compartments around said player piano. All those instruments were usually played by one individual by yanking on a series of strings, pulleys, and cranks.
Not to mention the slide flute.
Some people don't get how accomplished Buster Keaton was. A true inovator and an absolute Genius!!!
@@googlelord1678 Nope, it's not my opinion, it's facts.
@@googlelord1678 your mother is just an opinion
@@googlelord1678 Yes,he was a true inovator and an absolute genius,it´s afact as the sun shines in the daylight and the moon always come at night time!
Buster did ALL his own stunts. Even at almost 70 he did The Railrodder in Canada. He did all those stunts himself too. You should you tube it. Thanks Buster. There will never be another.
Rob Jontey • He did have had a slump in the 40s and 50s where his life went downhill for him for some time. Still a great actor though.
You should look into Tom Cruise. He jumps out of planes, flys helicopters in an aerobatic manner and leaps off high buildings. He’s been injured more than once, has a great team of teachers and insist he does as much as he can for integrity. Buster led the way though
@@seoceancrosser Tom Cruise is not even a pimple on Buster Keaton's behind.
There's one famous clip you'll see in the "best of Buster Keaton" CZcams clips where the entire front of a house comes crashing down on him, but he stays standing because his body passes through the open windowsill of the top floor. I read somewhere that half of the film crew refused to show up that day because they thought it would be a disaster, and of those who did the filming most of them had their eyes closed. If you look closely you can see that the sill does in fact hit his left arm on the way down, but Keaton never broke character.
@@virginiapicker That house front was reinforced against the wind and weighed 2000 lbs. Buster had 3 inches clearance on each side of him and that front could have driven him into the ground like a tent peg. Buster said that was the only time he ever saw the cameraman look away.
"I'm not stuck in here with you.. You're stuck in here with me."
I love the fact Buster straightened his hat even when he'd taken a tumble from the large convict. Very dapper! Also his beating heart with nerves, those surreal touches which elevated it from slapstick to art, after all the surrealist art movement stole from Buster, also of course he is very beautiful and dainty like a fawn.
The surrealist art movement stole from Keaton? Ummm what are you smoking?
And he checked his own pulse.
I discovered Buster Keaton few weeks ago. He was a brilliant and smart actor.
As you learn more about him youll realize he really does deserve credit as the ORIGINAL stuntman of all film stuntmen 😎
What a face, too.
How lol
Try an incredible STUNTMAN too !
The same thing
Buster you were before my time, but I have you to thank for inspiring Jackie Chan, and thanks to you both I made it through some very dark and difficult teenage years. Your movies will always have a special place in the hearts of countless people the world over. Thank you.
Even I, a 17 year old in 2022, have always felt somewhat accustomed to the air of 1800's, 1920's, etc. I have always had a simmilarity with those times at least to some extent, and now as the 100 year mark passes by 1922, I am astonished to discover how it changes the feeling... People in the future won't know that telephones used to have a disc, because they won't understand what the telephone with a handle was like at all... It's weird that someone like me feels a seperation...
All the effects and money in the world cant produce or imitate buster Keaton
Closest was Jackie Chan....the closest.
@@antoinehicks2681 yeah I agree with that. Jackie chan was cool and did some crazy shit. Rumble in the bronx
Keaton, Lloyd, Chaplin-- these guys had to do everything. No CGI. They didn't have stunt doubles. Steel nerves. Incredible.
Jacky chan is the greatest stuntman/actor period.
@@eddiekingham One of his crap movies.
This guy Keaton was and still is legendary
Imagine reading about this movie in the newspaper, driving to the cinema, queue, sit down, wait for the movie to start and then it finishes after 7 mins.
The full short is about 20 minutes, this is just an excerpt. There would have also been more than just this at the cinema, several short films plus full movies.
@@iododendron3416: didn't know that! Thanks!
@@Frivillig yeah The Great Dictator was 2 hours long.
@@Frivillig Early on, turn of the century, movies were far more come and go as you please type of fair, where you'd walk up, pay, and go in to watch whatever and wherever a show happened to be playing, especially as films weren't entirely as structural in nature. Eventually, the model developed to where you'd have a primary A picture, followed by several short films/cartoons, and a news reel, before getting your B picture, which was of lower quality, and the reason for the namesake of a generally bad movie being called a "B-Movie." You'd get a full afternoon of entertainment for a single ticket. The cartoon breaks were how we ended up with most early Disney shorts, as well as the Merry Melodies cartoons featuring Bugs and Co. Disney eventually took the short cartoon idea and produced Snow White.
In the 30s and 40s over 90 million people went to the movies in the USA a week. That's 3/4ths the pop. at the time.
@@jonathanw1019 if they only knew "B-Movie" would form a new meaning in the 2000 thanks to Jerry Seinfeild lmao
The big inmates expressions are so interesting honestly. He doesn't display anger, only a certain sadness and melancholy, but that makes it all the more creepy.
We are so fortunate still see Buster Keaton the miracle of technology and people who cared to preserve this material.
5:45 is amazing how he knocks the prisoner’s hat off and then hits him in the head with the next pass.
Yeah, Keaton was a dab hand at CGI.
I like Keaton's chain whip style.
Buster Belmont.
0:43 "More" (agent Smith)
Now Buster keaton is my favorit comedian
Buster is my all time favorite silent movie star.
4:25
Buster Keaton, the master of slapstick rolling.
Hey I saw your post from 3 years ago. In three years we will be stuck in a Global Pandemic. Do whatever you can to Stop It !
4:35 The real Bruce Lee
Buster had such beautiful huge distinct eyes.
The studios played up the eyes in silent movies since that was where most of the emotion of the acting was seen. (Also why some women use eyeliner and mascara - to emphasize their emotional expressions.)
They did use liner, khol, etc, and red lip stain, and white face make up, because black and white film is draining, but Buster had truly soulful beautiful large eyes outside of filming with no make up on.
"Nice weather we're having." Fantastic.
Weather's ok but 5 years after your post we are locked down in a Global Pandemic of many falsehoods. It bizarre, warn everyone so you can stop it before now. Or do these posts not go back in time?
I mean, this is still reasonably entertaining content to me :D It's more like a cartoon than a movie, and well executed with the physical effects too. The way the inmate tosses guards around like they weigh nothing... Good shit.
Great film.
'The riot starts at 3 o' clock '
A great riot.
"The biggest and most powerful riot"
3:15 is traditional...After Tea.
First time watching a real picture show.. Now I see why this was so popular back in the day, it was really entertaining and quite hilarious. Thanks for sharing this piece of history! :)
Wasn't cheap. People may have had pay over 5 cents to get in the theater
@@harrybriscoe7948 A train ride is indeed some
Love these old silent films actions speak louder than words
At 0:45, one of the guards running is wearing dark glasses like the type that used to be associated with blind people. I expect this was a joke that went by so quickly that many people missed it--but I'm sure the filmmakers got a kick out of including it.
Ha!
Thanks for pointing that out -- I totally missed it.
0:48 first hotline miami
I showed this to my parents recently, they were laughing away like crazy! It was such a hilarious moment!
100 year anniversary. How far technology has come.
So why does it look less realistic 100 years later?
not much
Best kangaro kicks ever 2.24 and 3.11
You mess with the Keaton, you get the Buster…if only in his dreams!
Great comment -thank you Joe
The golden age of cinema
Boy I'd love to be able to play piano like that....non-stop jamming!
Sounds like a player piano to me, all you have to do is pedal, so you can play it!
@@aaronwalderslade I've seen silent movies played with a live piano player. In all of them, they played non-stop.
@@lawrencelewis8105 I believe that this was edited using clips of Joe Rinaudo playing his American fotoplayer. If you haven't heard him, look him up on YT. He's awesome, and the fotoplayer is an amazing instrument.
@@weeniedogwrangler7096 Thanks for pointing Joe out. That is some machine! And I always wondered what the name of that circus song was. I can only guess that such a "piano" was used in movie theatres back then.
Buster Keaton, patron saint of stunt performers
I agree with this statement
A lot of the fighting actually looks pretty real! You could feel the pain when the inmate wacks the guard right in the face with the back of the firearm! Nice quick-thinking combinations of attacks, too. Within only a few seconds all the guards were wasted. 😂👍
@k158 my beer you will hold r/whooosh
@k158 my beer you will hold wtf's ur problem? thousands of stuntmen and actors have got hurt over the years filming action scenes
@@zxbzxbzxb1 So, just sing the jackass song to yourself. lol
“Nice weather we’re having.” Killed me physically
Hi Hi Perfections Tell This Words In Terribli Jail Hi Hi
Guards have guns, still runs up in his face :D
Legitimately pulls out a kusarigama and goes full ninja... That was unexpected.
Yea bro I was like damn this pris9n guard trains ancient martial arts 🤣🤣
I love that Buster had his father in this. Buster’s father did act in lots of his silent films.
Buster’s little brother Harry “Jingles” Keaton was one of the guards too
Hello Beth!
5:49 when 100 noobs are chasing you but you are already maxed out
5:00 The way the heads rose and then went right back down reminds me of Whack-a-Mole.
Too hilarious still to this day!!! Holy moly this was definitely ahead of it's time
These stunts look so brutal
THEY ARE! No computer special effects back then.
I’m learning stunts
Yea on almost Jackie Chan level
Waterkun Buster Keaton was founder of action comedy.
@@studentuser101 Buster Keaton was Jackie Chan's idol. Jackie has said so more than once.
This is March 2023 and Buster Keaton's hugely hilarious and fun-filled antics are exceedingly popular even today. We are fortunate that the these video clips, which are hundred years old, are available to us. 😁😁😀😀😆😆
Incredible good timing and brillant physical comedy here. Buster Keaton is the master.
Simply brilliant!
That hammer to the back looking so real.... oh... right... this is Buster we are talking about lol
Buster swinging that ball on a rope was beautifully choreographed
This is just awesome. I love silent movies. Great to see them on yt. Something so timeless, made for generations.
I watched this THREE TIMES in a row! It's hilarious and fun without being disgusting
Funny and awesome, I get it now why Jackie idolized him
K
Anderson Pinheiro as
Too bad Chan became a USA-hating shill for the evil commie regime in China.
For me the 80s and 90s was where Jackie's best work can be found. Mid 90s and beyond not so much.
I was born in Victoria in 65. I used to skip school in the 70's to go to the Royal BC Museum and watch silent movies in the Port Moody mock-up. GREAT times!
Mad respect for Buster, he is so savage 😎
Dude has a higher kill count than Thanos
Very funny, timeless and for all ages!
THANK FOR POSTING THIS MASTERPIECE OF THE MASTER BUSTER KEATON!
0:50
We now bring you... BLUES BROTHERS
except with prison cops instead of cop cars
And they complain that modern movies are too violent?!
Yeah, ain't that somethin'?
Was violent with humour !
They still had respect for the integrity of the human body back then. There was no real gore until the 1960s.
Right: I had the same feeling looking at the prisoner killing all the guards... A true genocide!
@Anifco67 Boomers and third wave feminists.
who still watch in 2020
now I'm in 2021, and I still watch
I have heard of this guy, (Buster Keaton) so many times but never once have I seen his comedy. This is hilarious! And no audio!
The heart pounding had me in tears.
All stress gone. ❤️
I think the business with Buster on the table, swinging the ball around in a circle, was derived from the Keaton family's vaudeville act.
Wow just now found this Buster Keaton character. Such talent... He's gonna go far in life.
Silent but violent lol tyvm for sharing.
Back when stuff was actually funny and done without special effects. Take me back a 100 years, please.
Indeed 💯.
But if we take you back 100 years you'll be dead by now. 🤔
This isn’t that funny. Just that popular humor isn’t funny. Real humor has gotten pretty refined though it’s not mainstream
I've watched over 300 feature length silent films in the last 11 years. They're all on CZcams
I love, love buster Keaton. I've seen this many times and he still makes me laugh.
Hello 👋 Beverly 🌺
How are you doing today??
This guy is incredible!
05:50 "The Matrix Reloaded", before it was relaoded.
he invented dodgeball
Luis Batlle Gargallo
Great talent! He died the day I was born. 2-1-66
Patricussion '66 you have half of century
BOOMER
@Dave L booomeerrrrrr
@Dave L BOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMEEEEEERRRR
@Dave L BOOOOOOMER
Good classic comedy is definitely needed in today's world
The tall guy looks just like my neighbors wife
"Big" Joe Roberts always provided a great comic foil to Keaton's antics. Probably had the most menacing mug of his day.
That title probably belonged to Eric Campbell, who was the giant bully in Charlie Chaplin's films. He's probably best known as the bully in Chaplin's film "Easy Street" (1917).
👍👌👏 Unbelievably fantastic!
Thanks a lot for uploading and sharing.
Best regards luck and health.
Captivating fabulous busta Keaton they don't make them like that no more 👍😄
Everyone's gangster until Buster Keaton enters the cell block.
if ya boys actin hard,
WE GONE TAKE IT TO DA YARD.
silent film is felonious.
That poor bastard. Buster wasn't locked in there with him...he was locked in there with Buster.
I remember watching commercials with Buster…Milky Way and Pure gas station. I remember the Life magazine article on his passing in 1966.
He came in like a wrecking ball ~~~
He is the best of all times rest in peace love HUD,
I'm new to buster Keaton and I'm loving it, im going to watch many more episodes.
I love this and I love how it started all because that damn unit wanted a smoke.
Haha. I saw this in a Nickelodeon for 5 cents when I was a youngster. Laughed my ass off then so much I crapped my pants and a century later crapping them now in this nursing home using my nurses computer box. 💩
These guys have about as much health as a wrestling referee
I wonder if you got hit in real life with a slegehammer you would have health.
I would LOVE someone to put together a contemporary story of all of Buster Keaton's stunts. It would be incredible
Not a story of all his stunts, but something like that + Buster's own words about the most famous of them czcams.com/video/72FQIV-jpEk/video.html
Damm he racked em cops down like dominos! Hahahaha.
5:45 Buster goes God of War.
No CGI , only Buster could pull it off !
Better fight choreography than most action movies today!
Holy freaking crap its so good for being so old, this made my day 🙂
Damn Buster Keaton got his own boss theme.
Buster was like “Don’t mess with me you asshole!”
Great work
I always thought he was so good looking. Great acting. 💞💗💞💗