{"id":28357,"date":"2011-10-04T18:23:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T01:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/?p=28357"},"modified":"2011-10-04T18:23:40","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T01:23:40","slug":"116-years-of-buster-keaton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/116-years-of-buster-keaton\/","title":{"rendered":"116 Years of Buster Keaton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Keaton.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Keaton\" width=\"550\" height=\"360\" class=\"centered size-full wp-image-28407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Keaton.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Keaton-195x128.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Keaton-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Keaton-305x200.jpg 305w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"firstletter\">T<\/span>oday would have been Buster Keaton&#8217;s 116&#8217;s birthday, and I&#8217;ll take any chance to celebrate the man who has become probably my favorite silent comedian. I love Chaplin, to be sure, as well as Lloyd and other even less-well-remembered names like Harry Langdon and Charley Chase, but Keaton is king. At least at this point in my life.<\/p>\n<p>I happened across this clip of Keaton on the game show <em>What&#8217;s My Line<\/em> sometime in the 1950s &#8211; now that&#8217;s a time capsule right there. For more Keaton-centric stuff, jump over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rowthree.com\/2011\/10\/04\/finite-focus-battling-the-elements-for-116-years-buster-keaton\/\">Row Three<\/a> where I&#8217;ve got a short piece up with a clip from <span class=\"movie\">Steamboat Bill Jr.<\/span>, and then stop by <a href=\"http:\/\/kittypackard.wordpress.com\">The Kitty Packard Pictorial<\/a> where Carley is devoting much of the whole month to <a href=\"http:\/\/kittypackard.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/30\/project-keaton\/\">Project Keaton<\/a>. I&#8217;ll likely be dropping a few more shorts over on Row Three, and maybe here and definitely <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/102723327552511533009\">Google Plus<\/a>, so keep an eye out for Keaton everywhere!<\/p>\n<div class=\"centered\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"550\" height=\"403\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wwc45RGUVG8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today would have been Buster Keaton&#8217;s 116&#8217;s birthday, and I&#8217;ll take any chance to celebrate the man who has become probably my favorite silent comedian. I love Chaplin, to be sure, as well as Lloyd and other even less-well-remembered names like Harry Langdon and Charley Chase, but Keaton is king. At least at this point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[485],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Keaton-featured.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":586,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/buster-keaton-series-at-webster-university\/","url_meta":{"origin":28357,"position":0},"title":"Buster Keaton Series at Webster University","author":"Jandy","date":"September 23, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"For those of you in St. Louis, Webster University is running a Buster Keaton Retrospective starting September 28th and running through October 14th. If Charlie Chaplin is the king of silent comedy with a streak of pathos, then Keaton is the kind of silent deadpanning. Both are incredible filmmakers, but\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Film&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Film","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/category\/film\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":32546,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/blindspotting-2013-the-list\/","url_meta":{"origin":28357,"position":1},"title":"Blindspotting 2013: The List","author":"Jandy","date":"February 1, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm joining the Blind Spots folks (seems like most bloggers I know are doing it!) this year, but that's because I'd nearly decided not to even make a list this year. I mean, it's pretty foolish of me to try, for two major reasons. 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