Josephine, the capuchin monkey cranking a film camera on a beach. Josephine was a famous capuchin monkey actress, best known for starring alongside Buster Keaton in the 1928 film The Cameraman.
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Happy weekend from animal actress
Josephine the Monkey —
Buster Keaton‘s assistant in
THE CAMERAMAN (1928)
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Actor and stunt-dog, Luke the Dog,
missed Puppy Day yesterday, because he
was too busy chasing Roscoe Arbuckle
and Buster Keaton.
This is a sweet little tribute:
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It’s that almost-the-weekend look.
Sybil Seely, in the famous, risqué,
breaking the fourth wall scene in
Buster Keaton’s ONE WEEK (1920)
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Buster Keaton’s SEVEN CHANCES (1925)
was released 101 years ago today.
It’s iconic chase scene, and Buster Keaton‘s athleticism, never gets old.
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Edward Brophy #BOTD & Buster Keaton
— from the dressing room scene in
The Cameraman (1928)
A man is carrying a woman along a high wall/rooftop. German expressionists, painters and set designers Walter Reimann and Walter Röhrig helped with art direction for “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”. They were part of the German avant-garde literary and art magazine Der Sturm, and Reimann was part of the German Expressionist group of artists called “Die Brücke”.
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What is widely considered the
first feature-length horror film,
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920),
was released 106 years ago today.
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The fabulous Anny Ondra
in Hitchcock’s, Blackmail (1929)
— Britain’s first full-length talkie.
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Film historian John Bengtson would email blast his silent film location discoveries, including detail on how he figured them out.
I would smh every time, at what looked like a completely impossible task. Like this in his book, Silent Echoes
John was truly amazing.💔
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Film historian John Bengtson
wrote 3 books about silent film locations:
Buster Keaton: Silent Echoes
Charlie Chaplin: Silent Traces
Harold Lloyd: Silent Visions
The research is exhaustive and remarkable, and we are so fortunate to have his body of work.
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Sadly, another loss. 💔
Film historian, author, & brilliant silent film location sleuth, John Bengtson. Here he is leading a tour in Hollywood for Buster Keaton fans, 2018. We’re in the alley where in COPS (1922) Keaton runs through it & grabs the speeding car (gif in comments).
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Actor, Luke the Dog
& Filmmaker, Roscoe Arbuckle, c. 1914
Happy Weekend
#OTD #TDIH #January6, 1880: #BOTD: #HBD #TomMix! #Actors #FilmDirectors #FilmProducers #Screenwriters #Westerns #Hollywood #Silents #SilentMovies #SilentFilms #SilentEra #Soundies #Talkies #ItWasAFakeMoustache #PeopleOnTheCoverOfSgtPepper #MusicSky #BeatlesSky
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Buster Keaton sitting with an oversized book and pencil, ready to write his New Year's Resolutions for 1929, staged outside his Grant Avenue bungalow near MGM in Culver City
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Actor/stunt-dog, Luke the Dog
was a puppy when given to actress
Minta Durfee (wife of dir/actor Roscoe Arbuckle) in 1913 by dir. Wilfred Lucas in lieu of hazard pay she had earned for performing a dangerous stunt in one of his pictures.
The Knockout, 1914
No mom of pda teen is ready to change Thanksgiving plans . But we do . #autism #pda #scarfing #silents #soloparent
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The Cook, 1918
(22 minutes of so much fun)
writ/dir. by Roscoe Arbuckle
For 7 decades the film was believed to be lost. Then a damaged nitrate print was found in an unmarked canister in Norway in 1998.
Roscoe Arbuckle
Luke the Dog
Buster Keaton
Edgar Allan Poe died mysteriously on this date in 1849. Learn about one of the earliest silent looks at Poe’s life and work in 1909’s “Edgar Allen Poe.” Available on all podcast outlets! #poe #edgarallanpoe #horror #halloween #silentfilm #silents
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Buster Keaton sitting on the running board of his roadster. 1920s.
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Happy Weekend
from Buster Keaton’s running board
Filmmaker and comedian, Buster Keaton standing in front of the train car
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The most brilliant physical comedian and filmmaker in history (imo)
Buster Keaton #BOTD
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Filmmaker, comedian, actor, stuntman,
Buster Keaton #BOTD
— a giant in Hollywood 100 yrs ago, influencing filmmaking, comedy, and the era.
Treat yourself to the roaring 20s & early filmmaking via the life of BK in @thehighsign.bsky.social Dana Steven’s superb book
The most expensive scene in silent film history. The locomotive, The General crashes through a bridge and into a river in Oregon
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Happy Silent Movie Day
In the 1950s after buying Buster Keaton’s home in Beverly Hills, James Mason discovered several lost BK films — including The Boat, Parlor Bedroom and Bath, and a pristine copy of BK’s masterpiece, The General.
The General, 1926
