Buster Keaton gets honored with a major DVD set

Many of the dozens of films and shorts of the seminal silent film star Buster Keaton have been released on DVD through Kino International. The DVD distributor has revisited these discs by packaging all ten of their Keaton releases together as part of a massive Keaton set. The set will not only package the existing library of Keaton’s work, but will contain a new bonus disc, Keaton Plus which will contain over three and a half hours of rare Keaton material. As part of the eleven disc set, each of the first ten volumes of The Art of Keaton will contain a series of films and shorts as follows:

Disc 1: The Saphead
  • The Saphead (1920, 78 min.)
  • One Week (1920, 21 Minutes)
  • The High Sign (1920, 19 min.)
  • Disc 2: Three Ages
  • Three Ages (1923, 63 min.)
  • The Goat (1921, 23 Minutes)
  • My Wife’s Relations (1922, 25 min.)
  • Disc 3: Sherlock Jr.
  • Our Hospitality (1923, 75 min.)
  • Sherlock Jr. (1924, 44 min.)
  • Disc 4: The Navigator
  • The Navigator (1924, 60 min.)
  • The Boat (1921, 22 Minutes)
  • The Love Nest (1923, 20 min.)
  • Disc 5: Seven Chances
  • Seven Chances (1925, 56 min.)
  • Neighbors (1920, 18 min.)
  • The Balloonatic (1923, 22 min.)
  • Disc 6: Go West
  • Go West (1925, 69 min.)
  • The Scarecrow (1920, 19 min.)
  • The Paleface (1921, 20 min.)
  • Disc 7: Battling Butler
  • Battling Butler (1926, 71 min.)
  • The Frozen North (1922, 17 min.)
  • The Haunted House (1921, 20 min.)
  • Disc 8: The General
  • The General (1926, 75 min.)
  • The Playhouse (1921, 23 min.)
  • Cops (1922, 18 min.)
  • Disc 9: College
  • College (1927, 66 min.)
  • The Electric House (1922, 23 min.)
  • Hard Luck (1921, 22 min.)
  • The Blacksmith (1922, 21 min.)
  • Disc 10: Steamboat Bill, Jr.
  • Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1927, 69 min.)
  • Convict 13 (1920, 20 min.)
  • Daydreams (1922, 22 min.)
  • The eleventh disc, “Keaton Plus” will contain the following:

    Shorts:
  • Ten Girls Ago (1962, 32 min.) (presented in anamorphic
    widescreen
    )
  • The Awakening (1954, 26 min.)
  • Educational Films:
  • Allez-Oop! (1934, 19 min.)
  • Jail Bait (1937,19 min.)
  • Other Shorts:
  • Hard Luck (1921, 25 min.)
  • The Love Nest (1923, 2 min.) (excerpt)
  • Daydreams (1922, 1 min.) (excerpt)
  • Commercials:
  • Simon Pure Beer (1958)
  • Shamrock Oil (1959) (also contains Shamrock uncut footage)
  • Phillips 66 (1961)
  • Kodak (“The Triumph of Lester Snapwell”) (1963)
  • “This Is Your Life” (1957): (90 seconds, plus clips)
  • Home Movies:
  • Keaton in Paris (2 min.)
  • Behind the Scenes of “The General” (1 min.)
  • “Interview” with Keaton (no audio) (1 min.)
  • Killiam Collection introductions: (total time: 11.5 min.)
  • Orson Welles introduces “The General”
  • Gloria Swanson introduces “The General”
  • Lillian Gish introduces “College”
  • “Life With Buster Keaton” excerpts (1950-1):
  • Detective Story
  • Time Machine
  • Gymnasium Story
  • Haunted House
  • Finally, the disc will contain an interactive tour of the locations where Keaton’s films were shot with John Bengtson, the author of “Silent Echoes” and an extensive photo gallery.
    The new set will be available for the first time on November 20th for a suggested retail price of $199.95 for all eleven discs. The ten individual discs which are already available will be repriced on the same date to $24.95 apiece.

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