This mammoth set contains 32 films of the much beloved silent film comedic genius and thus is an absolute 'must' for all fans of BUSTER KEATON!
Over the course of four discs we follow the rise of Keaton's career when he took his first steps as a film actor - after having spent almost all of his youth on stage and in the world of Vaudeville – courtesy of his parents Myra and Joseph, two seasoned stage actors. In fact, father Joseph owned a traveling show together with Harry Houdini called 'The Mohawk Medicine Company'. And it was during his young years that little Joseph (performing with his parents as 'The Three Keatons') acquired the nickname 'Buster' due to his talent of falling and tumbling without getting bruised or seriously injured. It was a talent that would serve him well in years to come!
Buster Keaton - the little fellow with the porkpie hat and the frozen face - never knew any other purpose in life except to make audiences laugh. His film career began in 1917, when comedian Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle saw him on the vaudeville circuit and hired him. After making a series of Arbuckle shorts, including The Butcher Boy, Coney Island and The Cook, Keaton struck out on his own in 1919, when he acquired Charlie Chaplin's old studio and began producing his own independent comedies. Before turning to feature production in 1923, he created some of the finest short comic masterpieces of the silent era in nineteen two-reelers, the finest of which include The High Sign, One Week and Cops.
This is cinematic history and each of the short films in this collection is a miniature monument to an artform that was suddenly realising its cinematic potential.
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