Arbuckle & Keaton. Vol. 2 / a Comique/Paramount release ; Kino International Corp. ; produced for video by Bret Wood.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Arbuckle, Roscoe, 1887-1933, director, actor.

Schenck, Joseph M., 1877-1961, producer.

Keaton, Buster, 1895-1966, actor.

St. John, Al, 1893-1963, actor.

Comique Film Corporation, producer.

Paramount Pictures Corporation (1914-1927), producer.

Kino International Corporation, distributor.

Language:

English

Genre:

Short films.

Silent films.

Comedy films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color tinted ; 4 3/4 in.

polychrome

Other Title:

Arbuckle and Keaton

Subtitle on container: the Original Comique/Paramount shorts, 1917-1920

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Kino International, 2001.

Language Note:

Silent with English intertitles and musical accompaniment.

System Details:

DVD.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

Summary:

[Back stage] This film contains many of the routines Buster used in the "Three Keatons" stage act, and can rightly be called the first Keaton directed film.

[Good night, nurse!] Arbuckle's surrealistic nightmare where he escapes the operating table, runs away and inadvertently enters a "Great Heavyweight Race." Arbuckle also gives his best "in drag" performance, playing a flirting nurse to Keaton's doctor.

[Coney Island] Presents Roscoe's nephew, Al St. John, who does a series of "tit-for-tats" with Arbuckle to win a girl, only to have her end up with Buster Keaton.

[Rough house] Contains Arbuckle's famous "roll dance," where at the breakfast table, he sticks two forks each into a separate roll and then uses them to do a parody of Charlie Chaplin's walk. Chaplin, appreciating the gag, later expanded on it for use in his film "The Gold Rush."

[Garage] Presents Arbuckle and Keaton as a team who find various ways of destroying cars, how not to clean oil stains and how not to fight fires.

Contents:

Back stage (1919, 17 min.)

Good night, nurse! (1918, 26 min.)

Coney Island (1918, 34 min.)

The rough house (1918, 22 min.)

The garage (1920, 25 min.).

Participant:

Buster Keaton, Roscoe Arbuckle, Al St. John.

Credits:

Producer, Joseph M. Schenck ; director, Roscoe Arbuckle ; music composed and performed by The Alloy Orchestra.

Notes:

Originally produced as motion pictures between 1918 and 1920.

Digitally remastered versions.

Contains:

Back stage.

Backstage.

Good night nurse.

Coney Island.

Rough house.

Garage.

OCLC:

46869609

Publisher Number:

738329020521

K205 Kino International