Buster Keaton – Elevator chase
An evening pause: Some funny silliness from the silent movie era. And if you don’t know who Buster Keaton was, it is time you found out.
Hat tip Cotour.
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Allow me to point out that this is part of a 23 minutes movie, which puts the chase into context.
Buster Keaton in The Goat 1921 Colorized silent movie COLOR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXjhVZPYYRU
Buster Keaton’s scene where he hangs from the hands on the face of a clock tower is one of the most famous scenes in movie history.
More comedy. When Sweden’s prime minister Löfvén came back from his summit with India’s prime minister Modi, he wanted a red dot painted on his forehead. His PR consultant (who is running the country) asked him why:
“- Because after having talked with Modi for half an hour, he pointed to the forehead and said that I am missing something important up here.”
These first 20 seconds of this complete idiot’s speech in India is worth seeing for a laugh. He would get along very well with Bunker Biden if he would become president, imagine what conversation the two of them will have:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pwhgQdJKIw
LocalFluff–
Good stuff.
I think you are referring to the Harold Lloyd film, “Safety Last” from 1923.
= https://youtu.be/lRTB0PA8nik?t=3759
[tangentially-incredibly remastered complete print. I’m not big on silent-film but I got totally sucked into this for a bit of time; crisp. clean, high-contrast & definition.]
@wayne,
Oh yes, that was Harold Lloyd!
Now I’ve revealed how much I know about movie history…
(That was almost as bad as confusing India with China.)
The only time I have fallen off my chair laughing, and I mean literally fell off my chair laughing, was at a “talkie” with Laurel and Hardy where they dressed up as each others wives and Stan was sent to buy ice cream. He kept calling back saying they didn’t have the flavor that they wanted so Ollie would tell him to get a different flavor. He kept calling back they didn’t have such and such flavor. Not only did he spend all his money making the phone calls, but was told they didn’t have that flavor because he was in a hardware store, not the ice cream parlor.
I guess you had to be there, but it was right up there with “The Two Tars” and “The Music Box”.
Eddie willers wrote: “I guess you had to be there …”
I got a chuckle anyway, but I am easily amused. Happy Thanksgiving.
If you don’t know who Buster Keaton is, I feel sorry for you. His stunts were all physical effects. Groundbreaking stuff.
Susquehanna Hat Company
-Abbott & Costello
[“In Society” 1944]
https://youtu.be/THZV5g1CNZM
6:12
Joe “what’s a Susquehanna?” Rogan
–> extreme adult language & subject matter<–
Joe Rogan 's Susquehanna Moment
Rogan / Diaz / Redban
Joe Rogan Experience #128
2014
https://youtu.be/BlKPBcDCiwk
2:13