BusterKeaton_vk

Let's take a brief break from our discussion of "Sherlock Jr." for a little exclusive – a fragment from the MGM film "Switching to Hollywood" (Wir Schalten Um Auf Hollywood), created specifically for the German market. This fragment has been digitized from a 35mm print, which, to our amazement, we discovered in the Gosfilmofond. Remarkably, the archive not only holds a Soviet positive copy but also the original German negative. As far as we can tell, this film has never been released or published in decent quality before, although you can watch

As you can understand from the previous post, it was "Sherlock Jr." that became my gateway into the world of Buster Keaton. To this day it remains, along with "The General" (and, in a close third place, "Our Hospitality"), my favorite. This incredibly clever and inventive film  still feels so modern that  after seeing it, a person, unfamiliar with silent film culture, once asked me in all seriousness if "Sherlock" was a modern stylization of turn-of-the-century cinema. And as befits a detective, this film has the most mysterious production story of all Buster's pictures.

Hello everyone, my name is Olga Egorova and this is a new, English branch of busterkeatonvk project. Some of you might already know me from our Buster Keaton discussions on Facebook, or perhaps you've come across our website, read our Instagram channel, or watched our Keaton videos on YouTube. Either way, I'm thrilled to welcome every reader, and here I will try to share something new and unique about Buster and his films that you won't find in any of his numerous biographies. For those of you who have never encountered our project before (or perhaps even Buster Keaton himself!) — here is our most popular video essay, dedicated to his stuntwork, narrated by none other than Buster's wonderful great-granddaughter, actress Keaton Talmadge: