A hilarious 2-reeler from Buster Keaton. Although this copy isn't remastered, it certainly isn't unwatchable.
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A hilarious 2-reeler from Buster Keaton. Although this copy isn't remastered, it certainly isn't unwatchable.
This was the first film to be released made by Keaton on his own; Keaton had worked with Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle for a number of years. The film was written and directed by Keaton and Edward F. Cline, and runs for 19 minutes. Sybil Seely co-stars. The High Sign had been filmed prior to One Week, but Keaton considered it an inferior effort to debut with, and released it the following year when he was convalescing from an injury.
In 2008, One Week was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
The story involves two newlyweds, Keaton and Seely, who receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift. The house can be built, supposedly, in "one week". A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates. And I'm pretty sure that the pianist accompanying this is a man I am proud to call my friend, the remarkable Neil Brand.
Read more about this film here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Week_(1920_film)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qFXR35oBKw
A hilarious 2-reeler from Buster Keaton. Although this copy isn't remastered, it certainly isn't unwatchable.
This was the first film to be released made by Keaton on his own; Keaton had worked with Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle for a number of years. The film was written and directed by Keaton and Edward F. Cline, and runs for 19 minutes. Sybil Seely co-stars. The High Sign had been filmed prior to One Week, but Keaton considered it an inferior effort to debut with, and released it the following year when he was convalescing from an injury.
In 2008, One Week was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
The story involves two newlyweds, Keaton and Seely, who receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift. The house can be built, supposedly, in "one week". A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates. And I'm pretty sure that the pianist accompanying this is a man I am proud to call my friend, the remarkable Neil Brand.
Read more about this film here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Week_(1920_film)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qFXR35oBKw
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