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original Comique/Paramount shorts, 1917-1920
Paramount Pictures Corporation (1914-1927)
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color tinted ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert.
[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.
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.)
a Comique/Paramount release ; Kino International Corp. ; produced for video by Bret Wood.
Digitally mastered from 35mm archive material.
Originally produced as motion pictures between 1918 and 1920.
Buster Keaton, Roscoe Arbuckle, Al St. John.
Silent with English intertitles and musical accompaniment.
Producer, Joseph M. Schenck ; director, Roscoe Arbuckle ; music composed and performed by The Alloy Orchestra.