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2019

January 9, 2020 By kathy

The Cameraman

You can read the program essay for our 2012 screening of The Cameraman here You’d never know it, but The Cameraman was a bitch of a movie to make, being the first Buster Keaton made under his new contract at MGM, and the first with which he had to suffer the dumb know-nothing interference of a … [Read more...] about The Cameraman

Filed Under: Essay

January 9, 2020 By kathy

Bust’d Buster

This feature was published in conjunction with the screenings of The Cameraman and Our Hospitality at SFSFF 2019 As a tyke Buster Keaton developed the necessary body calluses to take his own pratfalls. As one of Three Keatons on vaudeville, he was cast as the “Human Mop,” variously … [Read more...] about Bust’d Buster

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January 8, 2019 By kathy

Amazing Tales from the Archives 2019

Presenters: Robert Byrne, Stefan Drössler, Bruce Goldstein, Thierry Lecointe, and Hisashi Okajima FLIPPING OVER EARLY CINEMA A virtually unknown Parisian entrepreneur inadvertently saved a piece of early cinema with his small business making flipbooks from the films of the Gaumont company, … [Read more...] about Amazing Tales from the Archives 2019

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