LOST KEATON: SIXTEEN COMEDY SHORTS 1934-1937

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• Release Year: 1934
• Genre: Classic, Comedy
• Plot: For Buster Keaton, the era of the talkies was a tumultuous time. After signing with MGM, the quality, the quality of his ambitious, eclectic comedies began to decline, leading to a period of personal setbacks. In 1934, he signed a contract with Earle W. Hammons's Educational Pictures which, despite its name, specialized in comedy short subjects ('The Spice of the Program'). Keaton's move to Educational was a return to his roots, crafting a stream of two reel comedies in rapid succession, as he had done in the early 1920s, when he first refined his cinematic craft.; ; The films Buster Keaton of Educational Pictures (all sixteen of which are collected here) pay homage to his earlier work (such as Love Nest on Wheels, which revives a number of gags from his very first film, The Butcher Boy), while exploring new possibilities for his recurring comic persona, 'Elmer.'
• Runtime: 5:06
• Company: Educational Pictures, Kino International
• Media Format: movie