#silent comedy

[sockhop-softie]

Charlie in “The Woman” (1915)

[friendlessghoul]

The Illusion in Sherlock Jr. explained in Movie Magic & Mysteries: The Making of Sherlock Jr.

[justbusterkeaton]

Happy 129th Birthday Buster! 🥳

Music - Goin’ Down by The Monkees

[busterkeatonsociety]

#TalkieTuesday - Yesterday we showed you Elsie Ames doing Buster’s famous ‘Butcher Boy’ fall. Today we give you a quote from Eleanor, describing the stunt with clips showing Buster performing his gravity-defying two-legs-on-the-bar trick over the years.

[kevinpshanblog]

Painting on the side of a building in Paris, France, in honor of the 100th anniversary of Harold Lloyd’s Safety Last.

[keatonkeatonkeaton]

Newly discovered footage proving that Baywatch was actually a remake 😨

[silentdivasblog]

Have a happy new year 🎉

[somerandomrecluse]

SAFETY LAST! (1923)

Dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor

[modmad]

Uncle Mod! I haven't watched it yet because I have no time, but I've just heard of an indie slapstick comedy called Hundreds of Beavers which is a weird homage of looney toons and Buster Keaton silent film acting and honestly I think you'd like it lots

oh so this is RIGHT up my street huh

[thepopculturearchivist]

MOVING PICTURE WORLD, November 8, 1924

[sockhop-softie]

Some gif’s i made of Charlie 🩶🤍🩶🤍

From a clip of him milling about his studio. (I forget the exact video name, forgive me.)

[friendlessghoul]

Buster Keaton The Cook (1918)

[justbusterkeaton]

Music:- Please, Please, Please by Sabrina Carpenter

[busterkeatonsociety]

Promotional photos of Buster Keaton dressed as Hamlet in Day Dreams (1922)

[oldshowbiz]

For Heaven's Sake (1926), one of the great Harold Lloyd comedies, was partly filmed at the corner of Hudson and Hollywood Blvd.

Extra trivia about this spot:

Stan Laurel lived in the Hillview, located on the southwest corner, when he first moved to town.

Today the southeast corner features a mural of the classic Hollywood starlet Dolores del Rio.

[dandelionjack]

picture a strange parallel make-believe world in which doctor who was in some nebulous way both not exclusively british and around in the 1920s silent film era…

i mean, last year when i was hyperfixated on the lovecraft mythos one of my friends faceclaimed buster for their idea of the eldritch trickster god nyarlathotep. so i thought hold on wait a minute

just fucking look at him.

silly little guy! silly little stuntman with an age-old sadness in his eyes. a weariness so heavy it cuts through the screen. he’ll flop around like a hyperactive puppy but you can instantly tell that something went deeply wrong in his past. he won’t tell you what. he’ll change the subject before you even remember to ask. he’s so tired

all dressed up smart in a magician’s suit but the tie’s lopsided and undone. he wears it that way because he thinks it’s cool. maybe it is

average doctor activities. Pondering

no comment for that one. he just does this in the middle of questioning some unfamiliar alien and nobody bats an eye

i’ve seen so many clips of five behaving exactly like this? bro’s always falling over dramatically. what is that it’s the unknown

nope not today! and then running from the threat ‘like a penguin with its arse on fire’

he can drive anything. sort of.

the final piece in the puzzle: in an episode of the twilight zone buster plays a time traveller. except the time machine (that bizarre contraption on his head) loses its shit as soon as he switches it on. remind you of anyone?

buster keaton is the ???th doctor in my mind. that is all. have a nice day. sorry for formatting a post in such a 2012 manner unfortunately that is par the course when discussing this sort of thing