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Article: Buster Keaton or the work of comedy in the age of mechanical reproduction.
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- June 22, 1995
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The year 1995 has been compromised on as the year in which the centennial of the birth of motion pictures will be celebrated, a date that could be disputed by a variety of claimants with rival definitions of the motion picture. But there is no controversy that 1995 also marks the centennial of the birth of Buster Keaton, and it's no exaggeration to claim that Keaton is one of the definitions of the cinema. One can only rejoice, then, that Kino on Video is marking this centennial by releasing a series of three boxed sets called "The Art of Buster Keaton," which will include eleven feature films and nineteen two-reel shorts. Judging by the videotapes I screened of the first ...
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Transcript: Look at Comic Actor Buster Keaton, CBS
CBS News Sunday Morning;
May 20, 2001 ;
700+ words
... ... to see at the movies was Buster Keaton. And as Jerry Bowen is about to show us, to this day, Buster Keaton is among the very best ... better than anyone. BOWEN: Buster Keaton started in show business ... Harold Lloyd and Charlie Chaplin, so Buster did what he could ...
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