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Buster Keaton @busterkeaton.bsky.social · 6h

Saturday Captions - Can you make up a decent caption for this promo pic for “Three Ages,” 1923?

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Buster Keaton @busterkeaton.bsky.social · 7h

This Day in Buster...October 11. 1940
"The Villain Still Pursued Her" is released. It’s a good old-fashioned melodrama, played for laughs & sublimely over-acted. Buster Keaton is… William Dalton.

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Buster Keaton @busterkeaton.bsky.social · 18h

Buster Keaton in "The Buster Keaton Show," Episode "The Detective Story," 1951.

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Buster Keaton @busterkeaton.bsky.social · 1d

This Day in Buster…October 10, 1920
Roscoe Arbuckle's "The Round Up" is released. Buster Keaton is uncredited in his performance but unmistakable in these pictures.

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Buster Keaton @busterkeaton.bsky.social · 1d

This Day in Buster…October 9, 1936
"The Chemist" is released by Educational Pictures. Buster Keaton is a scientist who invents some ridiculous nonsense, including candy that, once eaten, will cause one to fall deeply in love.
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Buster Keaton @busterkeaton.bsky.social · 2d

Throwback Thursday - An advertisement for Buster Keaton's "Three Ages," 1923 with Margaret Leahy in The Victoria Daily Times.

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Buster Keaton @busterkeaton.bsky.social · 3d

Silent-ology has posted something I think everyone will want to look at. Rare Photos From “A Country Hero” (1917) Revealed! buff.ly/9h6NVnN One of my good friends helped by finding these photos and I'm excited that they are up for everyone to see!

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Buster Keaton @busterkeaton.bsky.social · 3d

This Day in Buster--October 8, 1925
The Pittsburg Press shares this photo of Buster Keaton sitting front row as the Senators and Pirates battle through the opening world series game. He was flanked by his wife, Natalie Talmadge and Mrs. Roscoe Arbuckle.

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Buster Keaton @busterkeaton.bsky.social · 3d

WIP Wednesday - Promotional photos of Buster Keaton's, "The General," 1927

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Buster Keaton @busterkeaton.bsky.social · 4d

This Day in Buster...October 7, 1951
The Evening Star shares, "One of the old masters of pantomime returns to the stage with a voice--and believe it or not, in "Romeo and Juliet." Buster Keaton's gloom seems unrelieved at the prospect of playing Romeo to his wife's Juliet in England."

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Buster Keaton @busterkeaton.bsky.social · 4d

TV Tuesday - Buster Keaton does a prank where a windshield spot is impossible to remove in a sequence on "Candid Camera," with host Alan Funt.

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Buster Keaton @busterkeaton.bsky.social · 5d

#MovieMonday The drinks are on Buster Keaton in this cameo from 1949’s “You’re My Everything.” Anne Baxter does the spilling…

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Buster Keaton @busterkeaton.bsky.social · 5d

This Day in Buster…October 6, 1921
Buster Keaton's "The Playhouse" is released. The over-arching theme of multiplicity is one that returns many times over his career but is most impressive in the opening sequence of this short.

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Buster Keaton @busterkeaton.bsky.social · 6d

#SundaySales Buster Keaton might well have been an auteur, but even cinematic geniuses need a crew to make their movies a reality. Lisle Foote’s book on the subject can’t be beat! buff.ly/bzjPUzj

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Buster Keaton @busterkeaton.bsky.social · 6d

In just 12 days IBKS will be presenting at the Penistone Film Festival presenting "Silent Subtitles." Join us there on October 18-19th!

You can purchase your tickets on their website here: buff.ly/lR8vBXi

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Buster Keaton @busterkeaton.bsky.social · 6d

October 5, 1930
The Kentucky Post writes that during the filming of "Free and Easy," Buster Keaton was prepared to sing "Way Down in Arkansas" but when he discovered Galli-Curci was to be a visitor, he said, "Gosh! I'm not going to let her hear me sing--haven't the nerve!"

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Buster Keaton @busterkeaton.bsky.social · 7d

#SaturdayCaptions Caption this promo pic from “Day Dreams.”

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Buster Keaton @busterkeaton.bsky.social · 7d

This Day in Buster…October 4, 1895
Joseph Frank “Buster” Keaton was born in Piqua, Kansas to parents Joe & Myra Keaton. Today we get to celebrate a very special 130th birthday with a video of Buster singing, "June Night."

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Buster Keaton @busterkeaton.bsky.social · 8d

Promotional photo of Buster Keaton, Sally O'Neil, and Snitz Edwards in "Battling Butler," 1926.

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Buster Keaton @busterkeaton.bsky.social · 8d

This Day in Buster…October 3, 1926
The Selma Times-Journal reports on boxing scenes in “Battling Butler” filmed in LA’s Olympic Auditorium. Cast, crew & extras were part of the audience but in order to fill the venue, they allowed in all-comers to witness the ‘free fight.’

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Buster Keaton @busterkeaton.bsky.social · 9d

This Day In Buster…October 2, 1965
"The Railrodder" is released. The late Gerald Potterton was the director of this short commissioned by the National Film Board of Canada.

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Buster Keaton @busterkeaton.bsky.social · 9d

Throwback Thursday -Philadelphia - Judge Landis, mighty mogul of baseballdom with Mrs. Landis and Buster Keaton as they appeared today at the second game in the 1930 World's Series contest between the Athletics and the Cardinals. They watched as the Cardinals lost 6 to 1.
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Buster Keaton @busterkeaton.bsky.social · 10d

This Day in Buster…October 1, 1922
"The Electric House" was released 103 years ago today! Hats off the young graduate who upgrades his Botany degree to an Engineering degree with not a single moment of study!

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Buster Keaton @busterkeaton.bsky.social · 10d

WIPWednesday - "A Knotty Problem. Apparently both in front of him and beside him, is encountered by Buster Keaton, the awkward recruit, in the navy and romance, as in Educational's comedy, 'Tars and Stripes,' which has just been completed at the San Diego Naval Training Station."

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Buster Keaton @busterkeaton.bsky.social · 10d

This Day in Buster…September 30, 1917
"Oh Doctor!" is released. Buster Keaton plays an over-emotional mother’s boy with an equally overbearing father, Roscoe Arbuckle.

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