| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 164 min.) |
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Online access with DDA: Kanopy
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| Contents |
The butcher boy (1917) -- The rough house (1917) -- His wedding night (1917) -- Oh, Doctor! (1917) -- Coney Island (1917) -- Out West (1918) -- The bell boy (1918) -- Moonshine (1918) |
| Summary |
From 1913 to 1916, Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle rose from the ranks of bit player to writer, director and star of comedies for Mack Sennett's Keystone Film Company. Because of Sennett's belief that actors were interchangeable, he lost Arbuckle to producer Joseph M. Schenck, who not only paid the comedian handsomely, but also permitted him complete creative control. To help in the new venture, Arbuckle recruited Buster Keaton, popular star of a knockabout vaudeville act; Keaton took a large pay cut to act in motion pictures, and Arbuckle welcomed his ideas andtaught him all he knew about making movies. This volume of the collection presents films that Arbuckle and Keaton made for Schenck between 1917 and 1918; they are presented chronologically so we can watch Buster grow from Arbuckle's bit player to his full partner. Following the 1921 scandal that was inflamed by a publicity-seeking prosecutor and the tabloid press, Arbuckle's films were withdrawn from circulation in America, and the negatives were not preserved. The films in this collection were gathered from international archives and private collections. The English intertitles are new, and except for Coney Island, derived from non-English sources. All the films are digitally mastered from 35mm, sometimes directly from the nitrate originals |
| Analysis |
Early Film |
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Film Studies |
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Movies |
| Event |
Originally produced in 1917 and 1918 |
| Notes |
Silent with English intertitles |
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Description based on online resource; title from Kanopy platform (Kanopy, viewed March 24, 2018) |
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Streaming video.
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Internet videos.
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streaming video.
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Internet videos
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Streaming video
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| Genre/Form |
Feature films
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Comedy films
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Short films
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Silent films
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Silent films.
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Short films.
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Comedy films.
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Feature films.
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Films muets.
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Courts métrages.
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Films comiques.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Arbuckle, Roscoe, 1887-1933, filmmaker.
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Schenck, Joseph M., 1877-1961, presenter.
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Kanopy (Firm), film distributor.
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