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Ed, Back in my film collecting days, I ended up with all the Keaton Studio features and shorts except THE LOVE NEST and HARD LUCK, and almost half of them came from the resourceful Mr Bouchard, who was always friendly and most helpful, even offering to send some sample footage for free prior to purc...

Thanks for that, Ed. Your tales of Rohauer are always fascinating. I have to thank him for introducing me to Buster via his frequent Keaton Seasons at the Academy Cinema in London's Oxford Street back in the 1970s, but the deeds of that scoundrel never cease to amaze. Thank Heaven he was pre-interne...

Thanks again, Richard. That blows a pet theory or two out of the water, and not just mine. Perhaps that "T"-shaped pool was used because it made faking the crater easier for the Chinese gag. Didn't Buster first mention doing the stunt for real in Harry Brundidge's 1930 book? Although more ...

Thanks for all that information, Richard. I'm very grateful. The mud on Buster's suit is a great bit of observation and clinches it for me! Looks like the book I found got it wrong about THE FROZEN NORTH and MOVING PICTURE WORLD, but there must be more to that film. For some reason, Keaton's 1920 to...

Thank you Thierry - that's exactly the information I was seeking!
Richard

Pictures posted above as requested. Brochure 28 pages. Chaplin season on pages 1 to 7. In a previous posting I said they didn't screen eleven Keystones (not counting Thief Catcher of course). I should have looked at the rest of the booklet more closely. There was also a season of spy films (Secret A...

Thanks Richard - and, on that basis, the ones they didn't have in their hot little hands for that 1964 season were: Kid Auto Races, Between Showers, Tango Tangles, His Favourite Pastime, Cruel Cruel Love, The Star Boarder, Twenty Minutes of Love, A Busy Day, The Fatal Mallet, The Knockout, Recreatio...

That's very convincing. For what it's worth (i.e. nothing!), the NFT blurb reads ".... of his sixty-one early short films we have been able to trace fifty-seven", but, if I'm still able to count in my decrepitude, they only showed forty-nine of the sixty-one.

Richard (font of all knowledge), Thanks for the reply. I suppose I thought there was just a chance that one of the other Keystones was circulating at that time, maybe on 16mm, under the wrong name. But, you're right. It doesn't matter. Except that, at least, the question and answer are right here sh...