Buster Keaton told an interviewer in 1965, "When I'm working alone, the cameraman, the prop man, the electrician, these are my eyes out there.... They knew what they were talking about." Drawn from film trade magazines, newspapers, interviews and public records, this book tells the previously unpublished stories of the behind-the-scenes crew who worked on Keaton's silent films--like Elgin Lessley, who went from department store clerk to chief cameraman, and Fred Gabourie, who served as an army private in the Spanish American War before he became Keaton's technical director.
"I'd ask, 'Did that work the way I wanted it to?' and they'd say yes or no," Keaton said of his crew. He couldn't have made his films without them.
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"If you love Buster Keaton's silent comedies this book is for you. Foote has done an impressive amount of homework...this is scholarship at its finest...this book is an important addition to the Keaton bookshelf"-Leonard Maltin.com; "the first book-length study examining the contributions of those who helped Keaton redefine screen comedy...one of the most important cinema studies ever to be published. It offers a unique, definitive fascinating look at the team who helped the greatest comedy filmmaker create some of the most important cinematic works in motion picture history. Recommended"-Examiner.com.
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Zielgruppe
Interest Age: From 18 years
Produkt-Hinweis
Illustrationen
7 photos, notes, bibliography, index
Maße
Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 19 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-7864-9683-9 (9780786496839)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Lisle Foote is a contributing writer to the International Buster Keaton Society's magazine, the Keaton Chronicle. She works as the Film and Television Archive Assistant at the Southern Regional Library Facility at the University of California-Los Angeles.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments deletevi
Preface
The Camera and Electrical Departments?5
Dal Clawson?7?
Elmer Ellsworth?12?
Bert Haines?15
Wayne "Denver" Harmon?18?
Byron Houck?21?
Dev Jennings?25?
Gordon Jennings?33?
Reggie Lanning?38?
Elgin Lessley?40?
William McGann?48
William Piltz?51
Co-Directors?54
John Blystone?57
Eddie Cline?61
Donald Crisp?75
James Horne?84
Charles Riesner?90
Malcolm St. Clair?97
Edward Sedgwick?106
Assistant Directors?112
Writers?122
Al Boasberg?124
Clyde Bruckman?131
Raymond Cannon?142
Bryan Foy?148
Tommy Gray?152
Carl Harbaugh?156
Jean Havez?159
Lew Lipton?164
Joseph Mitchell?169
Lex Neal?171
Charles Smith?175
Paul Gerald Smith?179
The Rest of the Crew?182
Lou Anger?183
Harry Brand?189
Chrystine Francis?194
Fred Gabourie?197
Bert E. Jackson?202
J. Sherman Kell?205?
Ernie Orsatti?207
Costume Designers?215
Arbuckle's Crew?222
George Peters?223
Joseph Anthony Roach?225
Herbert Warren?228
Frank D. Williams?229
Source Notes
Bibliography
Index
