Ripon Public Library

Buster Keaton, the shorts collection, 1917-1923

Full screen 1.33:1Cataloged from container and publisher's websiteBooklet (25 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.) laid in containerSpecial features include alternate versions of some of the shorts, such as a newly-rediscovered alternate version of the 1922 comedy The Blacksmith, containing four minutes of previously unseen material, an alternate ending of My Wife's Relations, and an alternate (politically incorrect) ending of the 1917 Arbuckle-Keaton short, Coney Island. Other special features include a 24-page booklet with detailed film notes and essay by Jeffrey Vance, author of Buster Keaton Remembered, an introduction by film preservationist Serge Bromberg (6 min.), and an excerpt from Buster Keaton's television show Life with Buster Keaton (1951), in which he reenacts Roscoe Arbuckle's "Salomé Dance", first performed in their 1918 two-reeler The Cook

mixed

stereophonic

Directors: Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair, Eddie Cline

other

Fullscreen.

videodisc

Buster Keaton, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle., Al St. John, Sibyl Seely

5 videodiscs (738 min.), sound, black and white and color tinted, 4 3/4 in.

sound on medium

videodisc

(OCoLC)951184264a1145390

DVD, Region 1; NTSC; full screen 1.33:1; Dolby Digital 2.0

738329205881

K20588 -- Kino Classics

DVD