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Buster Keaton
The Short Films Collection
1920-1923
(1920-1923)
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Contents: The High Sign (1921), One Week (1920), Convict 13 (1920), The Scarecrow (1920), Neighbors (1920), The Haunted House (1921), Hard Luck (1921), The Goat (1921), The Play House (1921), The Boat (1921), The Paleface (1922), Cops (1922), My Wife’s Relations (1922), The Blacksmith (1922), The Frozen North (1922), Day Dreams (1922), The Electric House (1922), The Balloonatic (1923) and The Love Nest (1923).
This Keaton short film collection includes all of his solo comedy shorts in chronological order by production date.
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 Kino International
2011 Blu-ray Disc edition
Buster Keaton: The Short Films Collection 1920-1923 (1920-1923), black & white, 390 minutes total, not rated, including The High Sign (1921), black & white, 19 minutes, not rated, One Week (1920), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated, Convict 13 (1920), black & white, 19 minutes, not rated, The Scarecrow (1920), black & white, 18 minutes, not rated, Neighbors (1920), black & white, 19 minutes, not rated, The Haunted House (1921), color-toned black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, Hard Luck (1921), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, The Goat (1921), black & white, 23 minutes, not rated, The Play House (1921), black & white, 23 minutes, not rated, The Boat (1921), black & white, 23 minutes, not rated, The Paleface (1922), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, Cops (1922), black & white, 18 minutes, not rated, My Wife’s Relations (1922), black & white, 17 minutes, not rated, The Blacksmith (1922), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, The Frozen North (1922), black & white, 17 minutes, not rated, Day Dreams (1922), black & white, 23 minutes, not rated, The Electric House (1922), black & white, 23 minutes, not rated, The Balloonatic (1923), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, and The Love Nest (1923), color-toned black & white, 20 minutes, not rated.
Kino Lorber, K756, UPC 7-38329-07562-0.
Three single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 Blu-ray Discs, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in pillarboxed 16:9 (1920 x 1080 pixels) progressive scan AVC (MPEG-4) format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; three slimline BD keepcases in cardboard slipcase; $49.95.
Release date: 12 July 2011.
Country of origin: USA
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This remastered Blu-ray Disc collection has been mastered from the best 35mm print materials available. Not all of the source prints are of 35mm quality, however. Some prints are of only good quality as the surviving material is either contrasty and blurred from multiple print duplications or preserved from 16mm reduction prints.
For material that is quite scuffed or otherwise of distracting state, Kino offers viewer-selectable versions that have been digitally cleaned by computer processing.
Among the supplementary content created for this collection are 15 visual essays featuring contributions from Jack Dragga, Ken Gordon, David Kalat, Bruce Lawton, Steve Massa, Ben Model, David B. Pearson, R. Emmet Sweeney and Patricia Eliot Tobias, a series of alternate and deleted shots from Keaton shorts, a presentation of exerpts from comedy films influenced by Keaton, and Keaton cameos in short films of the late 1920s.
For our comparative reviews of the individual films in this collection, see our The Balloonatic on home video, The Blacksmith on home video, The Boat on home video, Convict 13 on home video, Cops on home video, Day Dreams on home video, The Electric House on home video, The Frozen North on home video, The Goat on home video, Hard Luck on home video, The Haunted House on home video, The High Sign on home video, The Love Nest on home video, My Wife’s Relations on home video, Neighbors on home video, One Week on home video, The Paleface on home video, The Play House on home video and The Scarecrow on home video pages.
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This Region 0 Blu-ray Disc edition has been discontinued
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 Kino International
2011 DVD edition
Buster Keaton: The Short Films Collection 1920-1923 (1920-1923), black & white, 390 minutes total, not rated, including The High Sign (1921), black & white, 19 minutes, not rated, One Week (1920), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated, Convict 13 (1920), black & white, 19 minutes, not rated, The Scarecrow (1920), black & white, 18 minutes, not rated, Neighbors (1920), black & white, 19 minutes, not rated, The Haunted House (1921), color-toned black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, Hard Luck (1921), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, The Goat (1921), black & white, 23 minutes, not rated, The Play House (1921), black & white, 23 minutes, not rated, The Boat (1921), black & white, 23 minutes, not rated, The Paleface (1922), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, Cops (1922), black & white, 18 minutes, not rated, My Wife’s Relations (1922), black & white, 17 minutes, not rated, The Blacksmith (1922), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, The Frozen North (1922), black & white, 17 minutes, not rated, Day Dreams (1922), black & white, 23 minutes, not rated, The Electric House (1922), black & white, 23 minutes, not rated, The Balloonatic (1923), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, and The Love Nest (1923), color-toned black & white, 20 minutes, not rated.
Kino Lorber, K755, UPC 7-38329-07552-1.
Three single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD discs, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard three-disc DVD keepcase in cardboard slipcover; $34.95.
Release date: 12 July 2011.
Country of origin: USA
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This remastered DVD collection has been mastered from the best 35mm print materials available. Not all of the source prints are of 35mm quality, however. Some prints are of only good quality as the surviving material is either contrasty and blurred from multiple print duplications or preserved from 16mm reduction prints.
For material that is quite scuffed or otherwise of distracting state, Kino offers viewer-selectable versions that have been digitally cleaned by computer processing.
Among the supplementary content created for this collection are 15 visual essays featuring contributions from Jack Dragga, Ken Gordon, David Kalat, Bruce Lawton, Steve Massa, Ben Model, David B. Pearson, R. Emmet Sweeney and Patricia Eliot Tobias, a series of alternate and deleted shots from Keaton shorts, a presentation of exerpts from comedy films influenced by Keaton, and Keaton cameos in short films of the late 1920s.
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Other silent era BUSTER KEATON films available on home video.
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Buster Keaton filmography in The Progressive Silent Film List
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