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Classic Films

bucolic_frolic

(43,174 posts) Wed May 6, 2020, 04:44 PM May 2020

Buster Keaton Elevator Chase Scene

Did they really watch this stuff?

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Buster Keaton Elevator Chase Scene (Original Post) bucolic_frolic May 2020 OP

Thank you. safeinOhio May 2020 #1

Well I thought it was hysterical matt819 May 2020 #2

looks like the big bang theory writers might have picked up some ideas here.... unblock May 2020 #3

That was fun, thanks. yonder May 2020 #4

Pathe in all its incarnations has been digitized and archived bucolic_frolic May 2020 #5

safeinOhio

(32,687 posts)

1. Thank you.

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Wed May 6, 2020, 04:56 PM

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matt819

(10,749 posts)

2. Well I thought it was hysterical

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Wed May 6, 2020, 05:05 PM

May 2020

Context is everything. Early days of movies. Lots of physical comedy. And Buster Keaton was a genius.

unblock

(52,243 posts)

3. looks like the big bang theory writers might have picked up some ideas here....

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Wed May 6, 2020, 05:06 PM

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yonder

(9,666 posts)

4. That was fun, thanks.

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Wed May 6, 2020, 05:09 PM

May 2020

bucolic_frolic

(43,174 posts)

5. Pathe in all its incarnations has been digitized and archived

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Wed May 6, 2020, 05:21 PM

May 2020

I read that on Wikipedia recently. It was begun as a French company, maybe around 1900, then had a British division, and they have tons of films through about 1950. Don't quote me on all of that, I'm sure the dates are off and I'm wrong about a lot. But it really is a great part of history that they found the resources to preserve them for the modern age.

and yes i did find it funny, an escape from the day's drudgery. Is the world slowing down? Because traffic is flagging for me all over the internet.

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